Gay spirituality looks in all directions to find God. Many LGBTQ people are not comfortable with or have just plain rejected the traditional 'answers' force-fed to us by our ancestors and straight peers. We are brought to the point of trying to find a relationship with a higher power in new ways, but does it also mean that God has to act in new ways to get our attention? Pastor Jon offers his take on "God Is Gay" as he shares some of his spiritual journey with us. Jon Landre is pastor of Children of the Living God Church. He celebrates 3 years of service to the GLBTQ community in Fargo-Moorhead this year.
We'll consider how to understand happiness with the help of some ideas from philosophy and recent empirical studies. Mark Chekola is a 20-year member of FMUU and a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at MSUM. As a scholar of the philosophy of Happiness, he has been a visiting scholar at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and is part of the team for the World Database of Happiness, which is based there.
ND finally has a Planned Parenthood office, an organization, and a new director. Each year, Planned Parenthood affiliated health centers nationwide provide high quality, affordable reproductive health care and sexual health information to nearly five million women, men and teens in line with its core values of courage, freedom, dignity and truth, and its 75 year history of providing access and information to all who seek it. While ND does not yet have clinics or health services, the organizing has begun!
Join us for a return to the roots of the Jesus Seminar's examination of the life and words of Jesus.
Mark Gealy is Chair of the Department of Physics Concordia College and a student of The Jesus Seminars from which his material is drawn.