“Transgender Day of Remembrance was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence since Rita Hester's death and began an important tradition that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.” Gwendolyn writes in part that, “Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to

Coming up as I did in the Catholic church and during my young adult life as I made my way through various Protestant traditions, I recall one thread that remained a constant in my Sunday morning experiences. That common feature was the recitation of The Apostle’s Creed. Sunday morning experiences. That common feature was the recitation of The Apostle’s Creed. Decidedly Trinitarian, it asked me to state my beliefs alongside others of like mind – a belief in God, the divinity a

Let’s face it! Change is hard! It is hard work as we have witnessed here at the Meeting House, the ‘On the Cusp’ team working tirelessly to help us navigate change. And it is hard because it asks of us as persons and as a people – asks us to take a deep dive – to notice what lay beneath the surface – some of which is a joy to behold and some of it which we would rather not look at. That’s just reality – nothing unique to us and our circumstances. Real change, according to my