The Season of Advent
Anticipation and Hope

by Dennis Bratcher

The Colors of Advent The Spirit of Advent Evergreens and The Advent Wreath
Celebrating Advent An Advent Reflection

Advent is the beginning of the Church Year for most churches in the Western tradition. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, which is the Sunday nearest November… Continue

Gay Marriage Splitting the Lutheran Church?
November 20, 2009 by James Hipps

Well, I suppose if you’re bound and determined that you have no way of overcoming your bias, hate, intolerance and bigotry against the LGBT community it is.
In a post on the notoriously anti-gay CBN.com website:
The liberal Evangelical… Continue

Hello Folks....Please include the gay community of Puerto Rico in your prayers as they deal with this shocking murder. It took the mainland media a few days to catch up with this. We had a similar murder of a cross-dresser a few months ago outside a Latino nightclub in Daytona. No one ever arrested.
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From AP:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said… Continue

Ira Roy Schultz, 52, of Arden, passed away of a heart attack .
On Sunday, November 15, 2009, Ira R. Shultz, age 52, suffered a fatal heart attack while napping.

He was a beloved member of Asheville’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.Schultz was also very active in the Asheville GLBT Communit… Continue

From Associate Press: Nov . 2, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Same-sex couples who identify as married are similar to straight spouses in terms of age and income, and nearly one-third of them are raising children, according to Census data released Monday that provides a demographic snapshot of gay families in America.
The study released by a think tank based at UCLA also found that Utah and Wyoming were among the states with the highest percentages of gay spouses in 2008, despite being heavily conservativ… Continue