As millions of people celebrate PRIDE season in June, ReconcilingWorks wants to extend an invitation for you to explore how you can deepen and expand the ways in which you and your faith community create space for the love of God to transform your community. Consider discerning how you and your community welcomes, includes, celebrates, and advocates for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. ReconcilingWorks knows this work requires support and care, so we have created fabulous and diverse resources for outreach and education. To learn more about these resources and the Reconciling in Christ (RIC) program, visit www.reconcilingworks.org.
Together in partnership and community, ReconcilingWorks looks forward to the ways love can transform the Lutheran church. In partnership let our compassion, courage, and liberation create communities that make a way for all to be seen, named, and cared for as they are. This PRIDE season let’s work together, so no one that God has named beloved feels as if they are unwelcome. Let’s work together to share boldly that God’s table is for all!
This message is excerpted from “Love is transformational” by Aubrey Thonvold from the June 13, 2022, blog of the Women of the ELCA. Today we commemorate Justin, martyr at Rome, c. 165.
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