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Ran across this poem today from Lindy Thompson called “God Not Male” Lindy is a poet and lyricist who writes with composer @markismusic7 (a fellow Convergence Music Project artist) and we just loved the honesty and beauty of her words. It opens with these lines;

God, some of us need you to be female. We need your nurturing presence, your mothering energy.
We know we are all made in your image – male, female, all points on the gender spectrum. We are all created by you, we all reflect your glory, and no human trait is limited to one category of person. We know this to be true.
But God, some of us, in this moment, need you to be female.

Read the entire poem at lindythompson.net - it’s really good. .
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We’ve been always been committed in The Many to write songs that don’t use masculine images of God, because as this poem reminds us so well, in the church we have used Father and king images for so long that perhaps it’s time - past time - to think about God in a new way. Many feminine/mothering images of God are throughout scripture too…and in these days with kids in camps and when unarmed black men, women and children continue to be shot by police and the police aren’t convicted for their crimes, when women are victimized and racism is rampant and applauded, when so many of the poor suffer inordinately because of the harm we have done to the environment maybe it would help all of us to think of God as the mother who can give birth to new things, of a mother as fiercely fighting for justice as Eric Garner’s mom and a mother God who can hold us with tenderness and heal us all. .
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Our prayer today: God, hold us, re-form us in your womb, rebirth us as children who hold the world and each other with as much tender mercy as you do.
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Photo: #repost @brooke.roechelle.pierce from rally led by @maketheroadny and Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother, demanding the officer who shot him be fired.
#weareericgarner #closethecamps #allbelonghere #extravagantlove

We are so happy to be included in this new collection from the #HymnSociety: “Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community. “ It’s a free download and you can find the link on the Hymn Society dot org page under resources. “All Belong Here” and “Lovely, Needy People” are in this collection. Along with all kinds of songs from folks we know - like @christophergrundymusic - and others from folks we don’t know.
We really love what’s written in the introduction to the collection: “In our society and in our churches, we continue to build walls marking “out” and “in”. We continue to mark boundaries of “us” and “them”, of “normal” and “other”. Songs for the Holy Other aims to provide congregations working to dismantle these walls with a toolbox of hymns by and for those who identify as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, aromantic, two-spirit, and other sexual/gender minority (LGBTQIA2S+) community and their allies. For many members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, assimilation is not an option; we continue to be othered for our identities, relationship-styles, dis/abilities, race, economic status, and more. Songs for the Holy Other is a self- conscious claiming of otherness as holy and beloved of God. We who have been labeled as “wholly other” are claiming our holiness, and reclaiming our otherness as a prophetic witness to the church.” http://thehymnsociety.org/resources/songs-for-the-holy-other/

#HolyOther
#HymnSociety
#AllBelongHere
#LoveEnough
#TheManyAreHere #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqchristian #inclusion #inclusionmatters

“I was a stranger and you took me in.” -Jesus. #standwithimmigrants #nodeportations #roomforusall #allbelonghere #repost @pixiedustsalts

In this season of hats thought you might be looking for one that says All Belong Here. You can get it at our website. You’re welcome. #weallbelong #allbelonghere #justice #diversity #inclusion

It’s July 4th. And we’re thinking about America. At first glance, we really liked this photo from Kayle Kaupanger on @Unsplash because it’s a good counterpoint to “Make America Great Again” which is basically code for saying “Make America the best possible place for straight, white, rich men and their heirs again.” The truth is, of course, America has never been great for all its people. It’s never been loving, truly loving, either, at home or abroad.
America has never fully lived up to the ideals it was founded on. Ideals of life, liberty and justice for ALL. America isn’t yet the America it set out to be. Not for everyone.
These are ideals worth celebrating, though. These are ideals many people in this country have fought for, and continue to fight for. These are ideals we must continue to work for, march for, vote for.
Poet Langston Hughes said all that much better in his poem “Let America Be America Again.” He wrote it in 1935. It sounds like it could have been written yesterday. Maybe take a few moments today and read the full poem at https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again

Here’s a short excerpt:

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
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America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain— All, all the stretch of these great green states— And make America again! #justiceforall #allbelonghere #langstonhughes

Today in Chicago, as we celebrate Pride, folks are in the street declaring to everyone “you are loved just as you are.” Words we all need to hear, but some of us even more than others because so often they have been told the opposite. Our own @heydarren, in fact, is leading a group standing between parade goers and hate groups (who call themselves Christian) to #makelovelouder. And we loved this beautiful heart posted by @stjamescathedralchicago who also shared this prayer : “Gracious God, you love your whole creation and rejoice in its diversity: turn our world upside down, revealing that those whom the world sees as the least are the greatest in your eyes. Give us the courage to honor our LGBTQ+ sisters and brothers as living icons of your eternal truth that love conquers hate...” #amen #lovenothate #allbelong #lovewins #lgbtqpride #lgbtqchristian #repost

A few moments from our Peekskill, NY adventure this weekend. From beginning to rebooking when our flight home got cancelled. (On our way to Newark to catch another flight as we post this) .
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Great to be with the folks at #PeeksvillePresbyterian and help them kick off a city wide youth weekend. One of the highlights of the evening was a high school student reading a spoken word piece she’d written about the world we are all living in...and it was honest and also a little angry at what us adults have handed to them but also a call to all of us to change things. Pretty inspiring. ‼️❤️💙💚💗.
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#songsforjustice #enoughlove #loveenough #changetheworld

Just thinking today how something like looking up and saying hello can be a radical act. Sometimes we get so into our stuff... our concerns and fears and whatevers that we just walk around head down. Kind of closed off and solitary. But maybe looking up, saying “hello fellow human on this planet” is a kind of spiritual practice we need to be intentionally practicing a bit more. Gonna try anyway. . .
Photo from @unsplash by photographer Kevin Butz. #hello #spiritualawakening #thinkingoutloud #allbelonghere #humankindness

This. We needed to hear this today. #repost from @cleowade #weallbelong #musicianlife #songsforjustice

Well it was really great making beautiful music and experiences with this group at #summitforchange last week. Thankful for the contribution of poet Torrina Harris and those who joined us in The Many band. Nathan Berry on cello, Liza Micelli on keys and Peter Mack on cajon. Loving that we got this photo of us all together in all our delicious differences. #allbelonghere #songsforjustice #poetrycommunityofig

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