"The Gathering" Worship and Potluck

11/02/2024

Democracies can turn into dictatorships. Be prepared.

Be a Christian partriot. Rev. John Boley shares 20 lessons in citizenship for those wanting to serve God and resist tyranny in these challenging times.

08/10/2023

https://www.thetaskforce.org/news/faith-leaders-respond-to-christian-church-disciples-of-christ-resolution-welcoming-lgbt-people/?fbclid=IwAR1lTy3-jEyqjEnf7Zpvucx_BN8DxLJzo-77fRinDL5xVeULlfNtGWN1SmM_aem_AXggODMxT0DzZ3hUomR17lsB_w1ooUdZnCE0iuq0uEEE_hHe6yzoB4t7xgMwIDhl0cU&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Faith leaders of welcoming church programs celebrated today the approval of a resolution that welcomes le***an, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people at the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

01/03/2022

I learned today of the death of Jim Toy. This photo was him at our PFLAG Lenawee meeting in September, 2013. He was a trailblazer. It was a great privilege to know him.

02/18/2021

What a lovely teacher

05/18/2020

Unable to practice and perform together during the COVID-19 social distancing, the Salt Lake Symphonic Choir presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow, performed a...

04/09/2020

02/22/2020

My name is C.J. and I’m 13 years old. I am a member of the LGBTQ community. My gender identity is male and my gender expression is female. That means that I’m awesome. Just kidding. It means that I…

02/13/2020

Mary Griffith, a longtime crusader for LGBTQ rights, died after a lengthy illness last Friday, at her home in Walnut Creek, Calif. She was 85. Griffith was portrayed by Sigourney Weaver in the 2009…

01/15/2020

Jacob Cummings & Peter Gibbons Video Credit- Nick Haney Productions

07/30/2019

Be encouraged!

Words can do incredible damage, but sometimes they can’t hold a candle to silence. Often it is those words that have been withheld which leave the greatest scars upon us. It is in that terrible absence that we are dealt the harshest blow by those who claim to love us. Somewhere along the line you ...

07/26/2019

A weird thing came up on Twitter, so I figured I'd share here. Someone remembered it was me who "invented" the gender reveal party. I had written about my party on my blog and a parenting forum in July 2008. It was picked up & and an interview with me was published in The Bump magazine and the idea kinda spread from there. I've got the article framed!

Anyway, I've felt a lot of mixed feelings about my random contribution to the culture. It just exploded into crazy after that. Literally - guns firing, forest fires, more emphasis on gender than has ever been necessary for a baby.

Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we know now - that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what's between their legs.

PLOT TWIST, the world's first gender-reveal party baby is a girl who wears suits!

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Edit: if you want to see more of Bee’s looks, her Instagram is (I run the account, so if anyone tries to slide into a 10-year-olds dms I will end you 😁)

Launa Penza Photography