Inclusive Still Christian
Channel: Christ Church: Portland
Date: 2017-06-29

So, how do we faithfully & inclusively do church? And be church? And walk with Jesus as believers on the way? We have some good news - it's not only possible, it's what God's dream is for our world.

Join us for this special event with the Gay Christian Network as we lean in to God's radical, inclusive love for all of us. 

Rev. Dr. Paula Williams 
National trans advocate and member of GCN’s Board of Directors

Rev. Dr. Paula Williams is the former CEO and Chairman of the Orchard Group, one of America's largest church planting ministries. She also served as weekly columnist and Editor-At-Large for Christian Standard magazine and as a teaching pastor for two megachurches. Those responsibilities ended when she transitioned to live as Paula. After 35 years in New York, Paula moved to Lyons, Colorado, where she currently works as a pastoral counselor and church consultant. She also serves with OPEN, a network of progressive evangelicals, and the Center for Progressive Renewal, both initiatives of Convergence. In addition to serving on the Gay Christian Network’s board of directors, she is an active member at Highlands Church in Denver, Colorado, where she leads their church planting team and preaches occasionally. 

https://paulastonewilliams.com
https://www.facebook.com/ps.williams51

Matthew David Morris is a student of theology, an internationally renowned musician and performer, and a Grammy-nominated songwriter living in Portland, Oregon with his husband and their family. He ministers in a number of capacities within and among the churches of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, and he is engaged in local activism for people experiencing homelessness and marginalization. He spent several years engaged in the contemporary Neopagan community, and his current theological work centers around a belief that the God of the Christian faith is a God of liberative love, whose love extends to all creation. Part storyteller, part songwriter, part critical philosopher and theologian, Matthew David’s words aim to lay bare with poetic care the harder truths of our day.

Matthew's Seminary Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/seminary4matt

http://matthewdavidmorris.com
https://twitter.com/MattMorris

Our thanks to Gay Christian Network for partnering with us on this event.

Founded in 2001, GCN is an international network of Christians working for fully inclusive Christian community and a world where all people are treated as the beloved children of God. It is our mission to transform attitudes toward LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people and bring about a day when the church is the biggest ally and defender of LGBTQ people rather than a chief opponent.

https://www.gaychristian.net