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Retreat for LGBT people struggling with Bible

Wire report

Retreat begins on Friday,Nov. 9 at 7 p.mm and ends on Sunday at 1 p.mm
The cost is $185 which includes the program, two nights lodging and five meals. Partial scholarships are available. The Leaven Center in Lyons,is midway between Lansing and Grand Rapids. You may register online with a credit card or download a registration form at The Leaven Center web site: www.leaven.org. For more information about The Leaven Center or to inquire about partial scholarships, call 989-855-2606 or email [email protected].

LYONS- "Reclaiming Scriptures: A Retreat for LGBT People Who Struggle with the Bible," will be held Nov. 9-11,at the Leaven Center in Lyons.
The retreat will explore many topics including challenging issues like "the Bible condemns homosexuality as 'sin?'" It will look at where this idea comes from and what the Bible really says about it.
The retreat invites LGBT people and allies to take a fresh look at the Bible in a setting where questions, insights, experiences, and relationships are honored and affirmed. The retreat will reexamine the passages that have been used against LGBT people and will explore how LGBT people have wrestled with scripture and discovered resources "for survival, liberation, and hope".
Participants will share in study, reflection, and dialogue from Jewish and Christian traditions. The event is gender inclusive and the leaders are
Renee McCoy and Melanie Morrison.
McCoy is an ordained minister who retired from active ministry after more than 20 years as a community activist and pastor for predominately African American LGBT congregations in New York and Detroit. She is the founder of Harlem Metropolitan Community Church, the first Christian congregation in this country organized and governed by African American LGBT persons. She is also the founder of Full Truth Fellowship Church in Detroit, which has been providing spiritual support for African American LGBT persons for the past 18 years. She was recently named Director of HIV/AIDS programs for the Detroit Health Department and teaches anthropology at Wayne State University. She is deeply committed to sharing the wonders of God's unconditional love for all people as revealed in the scriptures. She considers sexuality a gift of grace that all are called to embrace and celebrate.
Melanie Morrison is executive director of Leaven Center and an ordained United Church of Christ minister who has served three congregations. She is also an anti-oppression educator, spiritual director, and author of three books including The Grace of Coming Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Struggle for Justice. Her Ph.D. thesis, The Politics of Sin, examined traditional Christian doctrines of sin from a lesbian-feminist perspective. In 1988, Melanie was one of the founding pastors of Phoenix Community Church United Church of Christ in Kalamazoo, – one of the first congregations in Southwest Michigan to be explicitly and joyfully welcoming of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

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