

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...


I am moved to advocacy
As an ally, to hear the stories, stories that touch me, beyond the ‘head’, in my heart… I am moved to advocacy. I continue to realize...


I am a queer womxn who loves a trans non-binary person
I am a queer womxn who loves a trans non-binary person. My faith has been both strengthened and challenged by the United Church. While I...


An important message for bisexual awareness
I self identify in two ways. Both as a bisexual which was my first self identification, and also as “queer” which came much later but...


So, THIS is what gay is!
There was a time, before 1970, when God and I were just buds… I was a teen in 1975-ish, when my mom (the Christian Education Coordinator...


God never meant for his love to be conditional
I wish this issue was a non issue. As a church we are supposed to practice love and acceptance to all human beings, and not doing so goes...


My Wesley Story
Seven years ago I moved to Cambridge, and having been involved with Westminster United in Waterloo, I was looking for a new church home...


A story of two candidates
This contributor remembers a moment in the United Church in 2007. A few years ago, our Presbytery was discussing the prospect 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...


My younger brother is openly gay
My younger brother is openly gay. Several years ago, in 2013, as teens my brother and I were in a foreign country with our mother on...





