Join us in our Zoom Room on Transgender Day of Visibility as we watch and discuss together a short documentary featuring the witness of several trans clergy and people of faith.
Hear their stories of growing up, keeping their secret, coming out, and transitioning into a new way of living all while wrestling with God and the church.
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O Infinite Love, bathe us with Your beams of compassion for all persons, made in Your image. Give us eyes to see the sides of You revealed in transgender persons, that they may see themselves as unique lights of Your light, that we may see ourselves as lights of Your light. Give us hearts to nourish their tender shoots of courage into wild daring for all to celebrate, as transgender persons become who You created them to be. Give us joy to learn from them the unfathomable depths of Your creativity, dancing into this starving world through their lives.
O Infinite Love, O Eternal Joy, O Secret Wisdom that guides us into Your future, be their enduring strength when oppositions rise; be their hope in times when despair threatens to swallow their spirit; be their joy, as they discover with delight on another day, another way You have created them anew, and once again declared it good, so good. Amen.
--Rev. Bob Howard, Pastor at Community Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Tempe, AZ
O Infinite Love, O Eternal Joy, O Secret Wisdom that guides us into Your future, be their enduring strength when oppositions rise; be their hope in times when despair threatens to swallow their spirit; be their joy, as they discover with delight on another day, another way You have created them anew, and once again declared it good, so good. Amen.
--Rev. Bob Howard, Pastor at Community Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Tempe, AZ
