Dear Ken, I read your story...
Dear Ken, I read your story — your and John’s story — and I am overwhelmed. It was as if all the “rules of civility,” all the respect and...
Hope for the Future
When you watch your children grow up in the church they should be accepted unconditionally in their adult lives. This is my hope for the...
Love Will Shine Through the Blinds
Dear UCC of Tomorrow, Seeing, touching and feeling the reality that nothing has really changed in the “real world” since 1988 is a fact....
The Bridge (a word collage)
This word collage portrays the schism of this issue. On one side: anger, horrified, silenced, let down, confused, rejected, upset,...
A worry about the apology
Dear United Church, I worry that this Iridesce apology project may not adequately reach sufficient people to result in a total convincing...
How can we learn from the past to grow in understanding and respect?
I read the “November 1988” story as well as several others that made me realize how though we see ourselves (the UCC) as a progressive,...
A young person writes, “Let us into the story…”
I wasn’t there when it happened I never knew that it was a “thing” No one told me about the “Issue” I just took it as fact I remember...
My year of pain
Sixteen years after 1988, in 2004, I was two years into my first pastoral charge — settled there by Transfer & Settlement Committee of...
GLAD, ANGERED: a word collage
A word collage GLAD / ANGERED / BETRAYED accepted / upset / content / abandoned / sad / happy / hopeful By David K. (Shared with...
LOVE: a word collage
A word collage: LOVE inclusivity / overcome / familiarity / beautiful / family / acceptance wealthy / sexuality / trust / HOPE /...