About an apology
Dear United Church, I worry that this apology, if it is given, will be motivated by many people who for the most part should be the...
An apology seems less important than the opportunity to share stories
I am lesbian. I am a Minister. I am new to The United Church. I am grateful for the decision of 1988 — as messy as it was at the time and...
Work from consensus
Dear United Church, The thing that hurts the most is how we have neglected Christ. We rarely refer to him, in our purported national...
Her daughter came out, then she was asked to leave
My wife and I were married 31 December 1988 by the female minister of my wife’s United Church (just northwest of Toronto). The minister...
I was there…
I don’t think there is “the Church” that can apologize for its members/adherents. The United Church is so diverse across and within...
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...
At the congregational level something has to change
As a queer youth in the United Church I want the church to know that it has made progress however we still have some way to go. The...
We claim to be open but…
Dear United Church, The thing that has hurt the most is how open and accepting we claim to be but then we do the exact opposite. We...