Whosoever January/February 2012
Issue Theme: Starting Over
Below are just some of the great articles in the latest issue.
Go to the Table of Contents for more!
Featured Articles:
Keep Pressing Play
By: Candace Chellew-Hodge
When we keep pressing play we keep giving ourselves permission to hope, permission to look forward to what the new day holds. When we keep pressing play, we open ourselves to the Holy mystery that constantly occurs in, through and around us.
Everything Old is New Again
(Or is it the Other Way Around?)
By: Lori Heine
May we all go forth into this New Year with at least one resolution: to make peace.
New Beginnings
By: Rev. Suzie Chamness
Every day is a chance to start over, to be made new and fresh.
10 Reasons to Own Your Faith
By: Rev. Paul Turner
For far too long the institutional church has taken the position they own the faith and simply rent it to us.
When It Comes to Religion, Let's Keep One Resolution
By: Bob Minor
This year, let's keep one resolution – when we talk about religious people, let's never again refer to them as literalists. That's because they aren't, and no one is.
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Letting Go
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. --Psalm 51:10-12
When we the Psalmist asks God to create a clean heart within him, God will certainly oblige. Where we, and perhaps the Psalmist, tend to have trouble, however, is letting go of that transgression ourselves. It's true that God is quick to forgive us when we ask for it, but how quick are we to actually forgive ourselves?
Letting go is tough for the LGBT community, and understandably so. We've been told by pastors and political leaders that we're the worst kind of sinners. We've been told that because of who we are we can be discriminated against in both the church and in the public square. It's tough to let go of our own shortcomings when everyone seems to be talking about how terribly sinful we are. How can we begin to let go of that self-hatred, that homophobia (or bi- or transphobia) that seems so deeply embedded in our minds and spirits?
We'll explore this topic and more in the March/April 2012 issue of Whosoever. If you would like to write on this topic, or any other topic, please send an email to the editor.
Deadline: February 24, 2012
Whosoever Podcast
Jay Bakker is the son of famous television evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. He grew up on the PTL (or Praise the Lord) club, and suffered terribly when his parents empire fell. Turning to drugs and partying eased the pain for awhile, but now Jay is out with a new book that describes not so much his fall from grace, but his fall to grace
. Jay explains his "grace evolution."
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Whosoever News Blog
Keep up with the latest news happening in between issues of Whosoever with the new Whosoever News Blog. A team of bloggers is keeping up with news on marriage equality, movements within the church toward acceptance of LGBT people, and anything else that affects our lives as LGBT Christians. Check it out - and be sure to join the conversation in the comment sections!
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