Reconciling Stories

I am impinging on your world for a brief moment and don’t want to offend, but a few I shall. I have a story that I feel I must tell and share …
Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Loette. She had sought out the church at an early age, and knew […]

I went over the notes I made from Colossians through 3 John, with a smattering from Ephesians. What I was looking for were verses that spoke about:
Loving one another, working together, the kinds of work we are supposed to be doing together as Christians, the kinds of strife-filled conduct we are to avoid and the […]

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. John 6:47
I am the living bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. […]

This story was told in November 2004 at Wallingford United Methodist Church at a service celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church becoming a Reconciling Congregation.
Hi! For those of you who don’t know me very well, or know my history with Wallingford, I was figuring this out in order to speak here and I realized […]

This story was told in November 2004 at Wallingford United Methodist Church at a service celebrating the 20th anniversary of the church becoming a Reconciling Congregation.
The first surprise was our conception of what it meant to have a church that would welcome other gay people to Wallingford. Perhaps a notion of gay people was that single gay […]