Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area

Are you a CWC Member Congregation? Don’t forget to send you congregation’s events to [email protected]! March 7 “I Do. Who Can’t?” – Silicon Valley Leaders on Marriage Equality The Commonwealth Club of California 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program Speakers: Kathy Levinson, Philanthropist; Co-Chair, […]

One of the main goals of the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations (CWC) is to engage our clergy and congregations in what we call “Sacred Activism”.  Sacred activism is to encourage our members to take their spiritual convictions  for social justice / public witness outside the walls of their meeting space.  February was a busy month for us expressing […]

LGBT-RAN, the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry, the Pacific School of Religion and the Golden Gate Association of the United Church of Christ are collaborating on a special LGBT History Weekend June 15-17, 2012. Events that weekend will mark the 40th anniversary of the ordination of William R. Johnson and other early breakthroughs in […]

An interview with the Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder, founder and senior pastor of  City of Refuge UCC in San Francisco and presiding bishop of The Fellowship, is the most recent addition to LGBT-RAN’s Oral History Project. The interview, conducted by Dr. Monique Moultrie, explores Flunder’s childhood in a devout Church of God in Christ family […]

Dr. Rebecca L. Davis, assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Delaware, and Dr. Anthony Michael Petro, assistant professor in the Religious Studies Program at New York University, are co-recipients of the 2011-12 LGBT Religious History Award. This is the first time in the seven years of the LGBT Religious History Award that […]

Maryland becomes the latest state for Marriage Equality. Read the news here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/23/us/maryland-same-sex-marriage/index.html

read the article “A Quiet Struggle Within the Gay Marriage Fight” here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/us/within-gay-marriage-battle-a-quiet-struggle-in-churches.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=pacific%20School%20of%20Religion&st=cse

The momentum continues as the state of Maryland gets one step closer to Marriage Equality! Read about it here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-senate-could-take-gay-marriage-vote-this-week-committee-will-vote-on-house-version-tues/2012/02/20/gIQATZnZPR_story.html

There has been a lot of changes in many states. Here is an overview of where we are at across the country: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/02/18/428044/catching-up-on-the-current-state-marriage-equality-efforts/?mobile=nc

Rev. Roland Stringfellow Clergy and congregations are supporting each other in very unique ways in the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations throughout the Bay Area. East County Shared Ministry (200 E. Leland Rd., Pittsburg, CA) is a blend of two congregations that have merged their worship into one – Community Presbyterian of Pittsburg and First Congregational […]