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...
Interview with Sue*
Iridesce sat with Sue (not her real name), for a discussion around gay and lesbian ordination in the United Church. Iridesce: Let’s jump...
From Robin
I am a celibate lesbian woman who has enjoyed ordained ministry in many settings — in rural and urban settings — in two Affirming...
Maureen’s Story*
1988 became a defining moment in the life of United Churches within my Presbytery* let alone Canada, and the effects reverberated in...
From Arlene*
I would like to share a story that happened in 2010. A gay man and his husband were settled at a rural pastoral charge, and they were run...
Tara’s Story
“When I was a teenager, in 1998, I was at the United Church in rural Alberta*. I was struggling with homosexuality. That is what we were...
