Words from the Pastors
a blog of the Church of the Village
Menu
  • COTV Home
  • About Our Pastors
  • Prayer
  • Donate
  • People of the Village Blog
Menu
  • Social Justice
  • LGBT
  • Race
  • Gender
  • Change
  • Grief
  • Church
  • Scripture
  • Spiritual Practice

Tags

Dr. King Asian American Christmas Kids Easter violence General Conference Methodist gender Justice Jesus Buddhism Lent Patience reconciliation annual conference Grace Philippines Holy Week home MIND Bible Psalm war Frank Schaefer Trial Indigenous People Advent Transition Reconciling Ministries Hope Covenant of Conscience Marriage Prayer LGBT Meditation Biracial family death Weakness Thanksgiving African American love cross Church of the Village

Search

Browse: Home   /   Life   /   LGBT   /   Page 6
Safe

Safe

May 22, 2013
by Pastor Vicki
LGBT, Life, Scripture, Social Justice, Tragedy, Uncategorized

I was sitting on my terrace yesterday, trying to decide what to write about this week, and, at some point, I realized that, instead of…

Read Article →
Native Tongue

Native Tongue

May 15, 2013
by Pastor Vicki
Church, LGBT, Life, Scripture, Social Justice

A few years ago, I was privileged to spend an entire summer in my birthplace of Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese. I thought it would…

Read Article →
A Love Letter to the United Methodist Church

A Love Letter to the United Methodist Church

May 8, 2013
by Pastor Vicki
Church, Identity, LGBT, Life, Social Justice

This week, the New York Times published an article about United Methodist pastor, former seminary dean, Social Ethics professor, and father, the Rev. Dr. Thomas…

Read Article →
Forgiving My Religion

Forgiving My Religion

April 30, 2013
by Pastor Vicki
Church, Identity, LGBT, Race, Scripture, Social Justice, Tragedy

What follows is my sermon from Sunday, April 28, 2013: Native American Ministries Sunday, when we were joined by the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. Several…

Read Article →
What Holy Week Has to Do with DOMA

What Holy Week Has to Do with DOMA

March 13, 2013
by Pastor Vicki
Church, Identity, LGBT, Life, Social Justice

I think it would be nice to start the day with a story. A love story.  It begins once upon a time in the West…

Read Article →
Kid Logic

Kid Logic

February 20, 2013
by Pastor Vicki
Church, Kids, LGBT, Scripture

On Monday night, my husband played guitar for a worship service at a Presbyterian church that is especially affirming of the LGBT community. The service…

Read Article →
← Previous 1 … 5 6
Church of the Village 201 West 13th St. New York, NY 10011 Ph: 212-243-5470 Creative Commons License
This work by Church of the Village is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.