Posts tagged LGBTQIA
Dealing with Gender and Sexuality at Church • Algunos consejos para la iglesia sobre género
Dealing with Gender and Sexuality at Church • Algunos consejos para la iglesia sobre género

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Discussions about gender, gender identities, gender roles, biological sex, sexual orientation and gender expressions—among other concepts—are not new, nor do they appear out of nowhere. People in LBGTQ communities were not all born 20 years ago; therefore, sexual diversity is not an imposed recent issue. Sexual diversity exists and has been around forever. As a church that remains at the forefront and inserts itself into the world’s daily discussions, we must deepen the theological conversation on gender issues and continue opening spaces for dialogue in our temples.

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Las discusiones sobre el género, las identidades de género, roles de género, sexo biológico, orientación sexual y expresiones de género – entre otros conceptos – no son nuevas ni aparecen de la nada. Las personas en las comunidades LGBTTQI no nacieron hace 20 años, por lo tanto, la diversidad sexual no es un tema reciente que ha sido impuesto – la diversidad sexual existe (y ha existido desde siempre). Es por esto por lo que, como iglesia que se mantiene a la vanguardia y se inserta en las discusiones cotidianas del mundo, debemos dialogar teológicamente las cuestiones de género para continuar abriendo espacios de diálogo en nuestros templos.

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BPFNAStaff, Baptist Peacemaker, Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQIA, Puerto Rico
BPFNA provides support for 15 peace projects in 2021 through the Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz! • ¡BPFNA brinda apoyo para 15 proyectos de paz en 2021 a través del Fondo de Paz-Fondos por la Paz!
BPFNA provides support for 15 peace projects in 2021 through the Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz! • ¡BPFNA brinda apoyo para 15 proyectos de paz en 2021 a través del Fondo de Paz-Fondos por la Paz!

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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebrates the support given to 15 projects for peace and justice during this year’s Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz grant cycle. The Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz was established in 2018 and empowers small, grassroots groups around the world doing the work of peacemaking on a local or regional level.

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BPFNA-Bautistas por la Paz celebra el apoyo brindado a 15 proyectos por la paz y la justicia durante el ciclo de subvenciones Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz de este año. El Peace Fund-Fondos por la Paz se estableció en 2018 y empodera a pequeños grupos de base de todo el mundo que realizan el trabajo de establecimiento de la paz a nivel local o regional.

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BPFNAPeace Fund, Fondos por la Paz, Peacemakers, Partners, Grants, Board, Staff, Mexico, Kenya, PAPNET, Women, Indigenous, Children and Youth, Sustainability, Conflict Transformation, LGBTQIA, Refugees, Colombia, Africa, Venezuela, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC
True Equality Means Lifting up ALL Women • La verdadera igualdad significa elevar a TODAS las mujeres
True Equality Means Lifting up ALL Women • La verdadera igualdad significa elevar a TODAS las mujeres

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Throughout history, women in every part of the world have made great strides, sometimes in spite of a significant lack of equality. With the help of women such as Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks, and Marsha P. Johnson, the gap in equality in areas such as gender, race, and sexual orientation has become more and more narrow. Currently, we are very fortunate that these women and so many more have made these strides, but we still have a long way to go - and part of it comes from the way we approach feminism even among each other as women.

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A lo largo de la historia, las mujeres de todas partes del mundo han logrado grandes avances, a veces a pesar de una importante falta de igualdad. Con la ayuda de mujeres como Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks y Marsha P. Johnson, la brecha en la igualdad en áreas como género, raza y orientación sexual se ha vuelto cada vez más estrecha. Actualmente, somos muy afortunadass y afortunados de que estas mujeres y muchas más hayan logrado estos avances, pero aún nos queda un largo camino por recorrer, y parte de ello proviene de la forma en que abordamos el feminismo incluso entre nosotras como mujeres.

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BPFNAStaff, United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, LGBTQIA, Trans Rights, Women, International Women's Day, Indigenous, Intersectionality, Feminsim
Working Together to Birth Love Anew • Trabajar juntos y juntas para hacer renacer el amor
Working Together to Birth Love Anew • Trabajar juntos y juntas para hacer renacer el amor

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Gail here on behalf of your Board of Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, bringing you Advent greetings, a brief year end reflection and an announcement. I don’t know about you but this whole year has felt like the season of Advent. A waiting in the dark for light to be birthed once again. So from this year-long preparation, what do we want to remember from it?

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Gail aquí en nombre de su Junta Directiva de Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, trayendo saludos de Adviento, una breve reflexión de fin de año y un anuncio. No sé ustedes, pero todo este año se ha sentido como la temporada de Adviento. A esperar en la oscuridad a que la luz vuelva a nacer. Entonces, de esta preparación de un año, ¿qué queremos recordar de ella?

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BPFNABoard, End of year, United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Racial Justice, Indigenous, Violence Against Women, LGBTQIA, Advent
An Interview with Lem Arnold • Una Entrevista con Lem Arnold
An Interview with Lem Arnold • Una Entrevista con Lem Arnold

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Lem Arnold grew up in Houston and Port Arthur, TX. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for undergraduate school and returned to Houston to attend medical school at the University of Texas at Houston. Lem worked as a pediatrician for about 30 years before retiring in 2016. He and his partner Pat live in Lafayette, GA.

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Lem Arnold creció en Houston y Port Arthur, TX. Él fue al Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT) para la escuela de estudiante y volvió a Houston para asistir a la escuela de medicina en la Universidad de Texas en Houston. Lem trabajó como pediatra durante unos 30 años antes de retirarse en 2016. Él y su pareja Pat viven en Lafayette, GA.

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BPFNALGBTQIA, Trans Rights, Mexico, Summer Conference, Peace Camp
Two Cookies
Two Cookies

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My kid was finally ready to go live at school as his true gender self. We were following the plan: new haircut, teachers and administrators on board. At the last minute he hung on the door of the minivan and didn't want to get out, so we said the verse together he had picked out for his transition (Joshua 1:9, “Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid, because God will be with you wherever you go”) and he got his courage up. We happened to walk into school with a BFF and dad, then climbed the steps together to the 5th grade hall, where the guidance counselor was hanging out in the classroom as planned, and the teacher gave me the signal.

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Solo en inglés.

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BPFNAPride, LGBTQIA, Trans Rights, Borders I Cross
As Baptists
As Baptists

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As Baptists, we are called to take seriously the words of scripture and to appeal to the spirit of God and to our community to interpret the meaning of those words in our lives. In studying scripture, one of the most pervasive themes we find is that of the importance of offering hospitality. While that might invoke thoughts of the uptown Hilton, in fact, the theme of hospitality in scripture involves welcome and preparation, it involves kindness and an effort to meet the needs of those in one’s care, and, significantly, it involves protection, especially protection of those who are most vulnerable. As mere stewards of that which is God’s, we are called to treat each other as family, and to provide welcome for every person as if he or she were our brother or sister.

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BPFNAPride, HB2, Trans Rights, LGBTQIA
Too Much of a Good Thing: A Transgender Challenge for Pentecost
Too Much of a Good Thing: A Transgender Challenge for Pentecost

There isn’t a picture in our scriptures, anywhere, that depicts people who seem to have gotten their act together any better than this text. Just imagine: The people had one language and the same words. No communication barriers. They had migrated together, and had settled, in order to build community. They knew their strength was in numbers. They didn’t want to be scattered so they stopped, to build the first city in the world!

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BPFNAPentecost, Partner Congregations, LGBTQIA
The Borders I Cross
The Borders I Cross

I am subbing in an English class at one of the local high schools. A tenth grade boy on the front row is eyeing me suspiciously. Getting eyed suspiciously is nothing new for me, but this guy’s not letting up. His glare is unremitting, almost unblinking. He slouches in his chair as if to get a better view of all 6’2” of me, chews pensively on the eraser of his pencil and stares up as I pace and talk and gesticulate about the importance of verbs. He is definitely skeptical, though I doubt he has heard a word I’ve said about verbs.

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BPFNABorders I Cross, LGBTQIA
My Vocation as a Peacemaker
My Vocation as a Peacemaker

The following story is part of the Vocation of Peacemaking series where we asked members and friends of the BPFNA to write brief essays on their peacemaking work. Each story is a wonderful reminder that there are as many ways to live a life of peace as there are people, and that we can act for peace in real and important ways wherever we find ourselves. This essay comes from Laurel Dykstra, Anglican priest and community-based activist and writer, who lives in East Vancouver.

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BPFNAVocation of Peacemaking, LGBTQIA, decolonization
No Job, No Food
No Job, No Food

The following is a sermon by BPFNA member Meredith Guest that she shared with the Unitarian Universalist congregation of Petaluma, California on September 1, 2014.

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BPFNALGBTQIA, Sermons
BPFNAers join with The United Church of Christ as plaintiffs in lawsuit against North Carolina marriage laws
BPFNAers join with The United Church of Christ as plaintiffs in lawsuit against North Carolina marriage laws

On Monday, April 28, the United Church of Christ (UCC) filed a lawsuit in North Carolina arguing that North Carolina’s marriage laws limit ministers’ choices and restrict the freedom of religion guaranteed in the First Amendment, thereby making these laws unconstitutional. While the UCC is the only denominational plaintiff, the suit includes a number of members from other faith traditions. Two of these just so happen to be friends of the BPFNA, Nancy Ellet Allison and Nancy Petty (pastor at BPFNA Partner Congregation Pullen Memorial Baptist Church).

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BPFNANorth Carolina, Marriage Equality, LGBTQIA, UCC, Partner Congregations