Community of Hope

Community of Hope A q***r activist church community in Bellingham WA, with a robust Zoom diaspora across the continent.

🌈🤓📚 Here's the link to register for Q***r Theology Sunday School, coming up this weekend!Sunday Nov 9th at 3:30 Pacific/...
11/05/2025

🌈🤓📚 Here's the link to register for Q***r Theology Sunday School, coming up this weekend!
Sunday Nov 9th at 3:30 Pacific/ 6:30 Eastern.
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9leUIS0iT1Kiyi6bRhrfBA #/

Rev. Dr. Cody Sanders is lovely and I hope you'll join us!

Stories to Sustain the Q***r Soul
When q***r and trans people come into being in the world, we often do so with little to no connection to the q***r and trans ancestors who have come before us, especially our ancestors in faith. We are cut off from the stories of our trans and q***r histories – sometimes intentionally, and sometimes simply because the stories aren’t circulating in our communal sphere. With absented pasts, we often have difficulty imagining possibilities of persisting in the present or striving for flourishing futures. We need the stories of our trans and q***r pasts to survive and thrive in a present often intent on our erasure. And we need narratives of futurist possibility to resist the traumatic temporalities that limit potential futures.

The Rev. Cody J. Sanders, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care Leadership at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN. An ordained Baptist minister (Alliance of Baptists & American Baptist Churches), he previously served as a parish pastor in Cambridge, MA, where he was also American Baptist chaplain at Harvard and an LGBTQ-speicific chaplain at MIT. He has published a number of books, including, Spiritual Care First Aid: An All-Hands Approach for Church and Community (Fortress, 2025), Christianity, LGBTQ Su***de, and the Souls of Q***r Folk (Lexington, 2020), and A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth (Westminster John Knox, 2017, with a revised edition coming out in the Spring). Originally from South Carolina, Cody now lives in Minnesota with his partner, also named Cody, and their dog Suzie. Cody

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Q***r Theology Sunday School with Cody Sanders. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Our 4 year old church is now officially a full member congregation in Mennonite Church USA!
07/07/2025

Our 4 year old church is now officially a full member congregation in Mennonite Church USA!

Community of Hope Mennonite Church, which defines itself as q***r and wild, is the newest member of Mennonite Church USA’s Pacific Northwest Conference.

It might be time to give this another read. I believe Divine invitation provoked the leak two nights ago so that courts ...
01/29/2025

It might be time to give this another read. I believe Divine invitation provoked the leak two nights ago so that courts had time to act to pause the Federal freeze. How is the divine inviting you to act? Protecting people? Defending civic institutions? Disrupting and disobeying? Building alternatives? We can't do it all, but we can each do our part and trust each other along the way. 🙏🏻🔥

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

Church, it's up to us to help with the spiritual transformation that can help with healing our planet. Lots of the curre...
12/05/2024

Church, it's up to us to help with the spiritual transformation that can help with healing our planet. Lots of the current problems are the fault of the church! 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹🌲🌳

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