Religion
 
Am Tikva offers full high holiday schedule for LGBT Jews
By Hannah Clay Wareham | Wednesday Aug 25, 2010
Greater Boston’s Congregation Am Tikva is offering several events and spiritual services geared toward the Jewish LGBT community in conjunction with September’s high holidays.
"Ex-gay" Donnie McClurkin at Boston’s Gospelfest
By Rev. Irene Monroe | Wednesday Jul 14, 2010
With Pastor Donnie McClurkin, the poster boy for African American "ex-gay" ministries, who spews anti-gay religion-based vitriol, billed as the main event, many in the African American LGBTQ communities will not be in attendance at this year’s event. And neither will the mayor.
Keshet to merge with Jewish Mosaic
By Hannah Clay Wareham | Tuesday Jun 29, 2010
Boston-based group Keshet announced June 18 that it will merge with Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity to create the nation’s largest organization working for LGBT inclusion in the Jewish community.
Ted Haggard’s new church of homophobia
By Rev. Irene Monroe | Wednesday Jun 16, 2010
To the disbelief of everyone -- straight and gay -- the Rev. Ted Haggard, former anti-gay megachurch pastor who was excommunicated for soliciting sex from a male prostitute, is starting a new church.
The Catholic Church needs its gay priests
By Rev. Irene Monroe | Wednesday Apr 14, 2010
Right now, the Catholic Church stands in need of prayer.
The Pope’s pedophilic church
By Rev. Irene Monroe | Wednesday Mar 31, 2010
Who among us would not flinch at the thought of a "holy man" preying on children instead of praying with them?
Jamaica’s gay underground Christians
By Rev. Irene Monroe | Wednesday Mar 17, 2010
Sometime in the late hours of Saturday night the call will come in. Philbert (not his real name,) like many of his Christian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) buddies, waits anxiously for the call in order to know the time and place of the van pickup, and where it’ll drop them off to a safe and secluded place for Sunday worship.
Anglicans OK gay pensions
By Rex Wockner | Tuesday Feb 23, 2010
The General Synod of the Church of England voted Feb. 11 to give pensions to the same-sex widows and widowers of clergy members.
Will faith-based agencies help Haiti’s gay community?
By Rev. Irene Monroe | Thursday Jan 28, 2010
ince the world community has descended on Haiti with all manner of relief aid in response to the Jan. 12 earthquake, I’m wondering how Haiti’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities are being helped.
What were you reading in 1960?
By Hannah Clay Wareham | Tuesday Jan 19, 2010
A radical LGBT book turns fifty next month.
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