Author name: AllianceQ

When I first joined Foothills Christian Church last Spring, I asked my Pastor, “what does Open & Affirming mean, exactly?” […]

Joining Franklin Circle has been one of the best things to happen in my life in a long time –

When members of my family speak of their death, they refer to going up on the hill to rest in

“You are welcome here… as long as you believe like we do, pray like we do, and (scroll unfurled) understand

As a gay couple, we knew that we would not be accepted in many of the main line denominations, yet

We at Chalice Christian Church were a wandering people.  But after years and years of getting use to one junior

I came into this world, as we all do, on a journey of discovery. I did not know it then,

I am part of the first Open & Affirming Church in the Central Rocky Mountain Region of the Christian Church

I was born and raised in the African Methodist Episcopal  (A.M.E) Church.  Like many of us who identify as LGBT,

I had been at First Christian Church of Oakland for a couple of weeks when I went out to lunch

When I first attended a service at Community Christian Church in Tempe, AZ, I had no idea what an impact it

I pastor a church that voted five years ago to publicly identify itself as “Open & Affirming.” While, in the