IBM worked with me to get the set up going again (Ustream became IBM Ustream). We will have a communion service for Ascension tonight at 7PM.
Queer Easter by Guy Erwin
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ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - The antidote trusts the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Planning for a Week of Rain - and Wood Mulch
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| Heirloom Rose fragrance is potent enough to make someone cough. |
Two tools used by the Jackson ICU team are:
- Rain
- Wood Mulch, plus other mulches - leaves, dead weeds.
Rain and Snow
We often have too much rain in the spring, with oozing mud and a lake in the back yard (no interior flooding). But no one knows when the last good rain has left the area.
I love rain for soaking bare root roses, new roses, and stressed bushes. They can soak for a week if given sun for the branches.
Young plants arrive by mail, parched by the trip. The first job is lining them up in a bucket or wheelbarrow for a rainwater soak. Overnight is way too long, though I did that with Bee Balm and it survived...barely. Most plants are ready to go after a rainwater soak, indicating which is the root and which is the stem, within an hour. Some plants arrive as a ball or so tiny, that some clues help.
A plant - simply dug into the ground and watered - is going to be donating water to the dry soil. However, if the rose or new plant is already soaked, then watered after planting, a larger volume of damp soil will support growth instead of drawing that rainwater away.
Everyone knows by now - rain is liquid fertilizer, safe and always effective. A chemical engineer showed me how to put dry fertilizer into the hole dug for roses (?!) and plant it in that toxic-for-roses environment. I never bought a bag of fertilizer, but I did find horse manure and brought it back in a pickup truck. The trick is to praise horses until someone says, "People raise horses near us."
I gave a bunch of manure to a neighbor and he then snow-plowed our sidewalks all winter for free.
Mulches
Weeds may simply be plants yearning to do something more useful in life. A stand of crab grass is actually a grain product and prolific in its production. If cardboard is placed on it and mulch over that, the entire plant will feed the soil, its green leaves providing nitrogen quite a bit slower than rain, but still free.
I get tall pasture grass weeds growing in the garden from birds feeding in one area and fertilizing in another. I had a massive bunch near a rose, so I put cardboard down and a bag of wood mulch on top, almost completely opaque. That weed patch decomposed to feed the bush, and the bush grew instead of being engulfed by pasture grass.
A partial bag is only $1, which is a lot less work than weeding and always good for the soil.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
From Byzantium to Luther. The Majority Text and the Printing Press - Rough Draft.
The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God
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| The wine press became the printing press. |
The Ottoman Empire
After the prophet Mohammed died, in 632 AD, his enemies
rose up to remove his influence from Arabia. Instead, his followers countered
and wiped out all active opposition.
The
Byzantine Empire was protected against invasion until the growth of the Ottoman
Empire in the 1300s. Byzantium did not have a warlike culture, but the Muslims
were active in conquest. By 1453, the Byzantine Empire had been whittled down
to Constantinople alone, and it fell on May 29th. The last emperor
of Constantinople, who died fighting, was named Constantine, just as the last
emperor of Rome was named Romulus and died fighting in 476, which was
considered the end of the Roman Empire.
Constantinople
became Istanbul by combining the Greek words for “into the city.”[1]
The great and golden metropolis was simply called “The City,” just as New York
City is today. A lawyer who worked in New York said to us, “I can do my work in
the suburbs, so I seldom have to go into the City.” He added, “That is how we tell
newcomers from old hands. New York is simply The City.”
The
fall of Constantinople was accompanied by Greek scholars and artists fleeing to
Europe with their treasures, which initiated the Renaissance. Ancient Greek
culture was admired and copied in many ways, and the Greek New Testament came
to replace the Vulgate. Thus the end of the two empires, Rome and Byzantine,
mark the beginning and end of the Middle Ages.
The
fall of Rome facilitated the Church in governing Europe, with its common
language – Latin – and its network of bishops and priests. The struggle began,
not the first, but the most effective, the Gospel versus the Antichrist.
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| Was Jerome's the first Latin Bible - no. The first was based on the Majority Text. |
The Old Latin Version and Jerome’s Vulgate - Apocrypha
The Latin version of the New Testament seems
to come to life in the fifth century after Christ, with Jerome creating the
Vulgate. However, that is far off, because the Old Latin version was actually
translated around 150 AD. The difference is that the Old Latin and the Vulgate
have different sources. The Old Latin uses the Traditional Text, the other is
the Vaticanus, the opposing minority version Tischendorf and Hort adored and
exalted. This fact introduces the concept that there are two basic traditions
for the New Testament. One was copied voluminously and left behind thousands of
examples – the Majority Text. The other is the corrupted Vatican and Sinaiticus, deviously
promoted by Tischendorf, who “discovered” both, then fashioned the Standard Text by
Westcott, Hort, Nestle, and Aland.
The
Traditional Text in its many variations and translations became important for
the independent Waldenses, who in turn influenced Luther’s translation. The story
of these people is one of extreme persecution and hardship.
The Waldensians – Key to Luther’s Bible
Most of us think of New Testament development as Greek –
Latin – Erasmus - Luther – KJV, omitting the Waldenses and many others. The
path is not so simple, as the Old Latin and Vulgate show. The Waldenses persecution
is taught in church history classes, but the story does not get the lasting recognition
it deserves. Wylie argues that the original idea came from a poem, Nobla
Leycon.[2]
An opponent of the movement, Rorenco, declared the movement was ancient.[3] The
name of the group comes from Peter Waldo, a merchant who sold his business and
gave the money to the poor toward the end of the 1100s. Others followed him,
which contributed to a tradition of voluntary poverty, lay preaching, and
evangelism. They did not agree with the Roman pope and already had a tradition
of independence from Rome. The Waldenses were discussed at the Third and Fourth
Lateran Councils. They were prevented from preaching without permission from
Rome. Persecution arose and they escaped to the mountains of Northern Italy.
John Milton penned the sonnet, which touches upon the
violence against the Waldenses
Sonnet
18
On
the Late Massacre in Piedmont (1655)
Avenge, O Lord,
thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones
Lie scatter'd on
the Alpine mountains cold,
Ev'n them who
kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our
fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones;
Forget not: in
thy book record their groans
Who were thy
sheep and in their ancient fold
Slain by the
bloody Piemontese that roll'd
Mother with
infant down the rocks. Their moans
The vales redoubl'd
to the hills, and they
To Heav'n. Their
martyr'd blood and ashes sow
O'er all th'
Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple
tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundred-fold,
who having learnt thy way
Early may fly the
Babylonian woe.[4]
Waldenses Bible
The Waldenses endured horrific persecution from the
Church of Rome, which made them the forerunner of the Reformation.[5] Studying
one book on the long history of the Waldensians will show that the Vatican did
not control all of Europe, and people stood up to the false claims and
teachings of the pope. They had Bibles translated into their languages, and these
Bibles influenced Luther and the King James editors in the language and Greek
manuscripts used. They followed the Majority Text tradition and not minority
Vaticanus.
Erasmus – The Reformer Who Stayed in the Church
Roman Catholic priests and nuns remember Erasmus, and not
always with fondness. One priest visited Notre Dame University, wearing a
Hawaiian shirt, to promote the social activism goals of his group. A nun
confronted him. “There you go, just like Erasmus, turning Protestant and going
secular.” Erasmus received a dispensation to wear secular clothes, and he
enjoyed the friendship of many powerful people. That remains the paradox of
Erasmus, because he starting the wagon going downhill to start the Reformation –
then he jumped off. Or – he laid the egg that Luther hatched.
[1] εις την Πόλιν
[2] The
Nobla Leycon though a poem, is in reality a confession of faith, and could have
been composed only after some considerable study of the system of Christianity,
in contradistinction to the errors of Rome. Wylie, J.A. . The History of the
Waldenses (p. 8). Kindle Edition.
[3] Yet
he states that "they were not a new sect in the ninth and tenth centuries,
and that Claude of Turin must have detached them from the Church in the ninth
century." Wylie, J.A. . The History of the Waldenses (p. 8). Kindle
Edition.
[4] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44747/sonnet-18-avenge-o-lord-thy-slaughterd-saints-whose-bones.
The actual slaughters are too horrible to print. They are haunting, focused on
the innocent, and impossible to forget.
[5]
Jack Moorman, Forever Settled, pp. 227ff.
Divine Engineering
My first venture in Joe Pye was timid, with only two plants. One got weed-whacked, but it came back. A couple bought Little Joe Pye and loved it, so I bought two Little Joes with my next order. They grew and bloomed.
Meanwhile I learned that Joe Pye can grow nine feet tall in the rose garden - and it did. Ranger Bob solemnly warned me about Joe Pye shading the garden even more effectively than Buckwheat dwarfing the roses.
The Carbon Cowboys reading this know how valuable root systems are to soil fertility, so Buckwheat and Joe Pye leveraged my efforts with wood mulch, paper, and cardboard.
The virtue of any tall plant is a deep root system that opens the soil to its water storage system. That means less run-off and more rainwater to build the plants.
They all have their timing. After the daffodil blooming, the rest of the garden was colorless. Joe Pye began showing its green in the rose garden, and Little Joe popped up in the blackberry weed section, a sunny area perfect for most plants and ideal for the squirrels' own berry harvesting. I lost the battle to blackberry canes last year and did a lot more to them this year. In putting in some calla lilies I found a long straight root which seemed to be the backbone of the blackberry network. I cut it.
I only have to consider previous years to see how hardy these plants are. Previously planted baby hostas are now hardy and ready to divide at the roots. The large hostas are even larger. I was only an amateur hosta grower. I worried that rabbits would eat all my hostas, and I am sure some tried. My neighbor gives them away, so I can move on to blue hostas, maybe.
Roses are budding but the exceptional cold spring frost-bit the first blooms. That is no loss, since trimming bad blooms away only encourages new ones. I have plenty of time to reverse the decisions of the past, such as planting the spirea bushes.
Plant are like pets. We think we are the masters and find out we are the staff, working for an intelligent and well designed, divine creation. Sassy Sue was born to protect and dominate her staff. She has trained me to add treats on top of her dog food, simply by looking up and asking "Where are the treats?" with her eyes. When I close my eyes for sleep, I expect her to order one more trip outside, one spoon of Frosty Paws, and one Pupperoni (since Frosty Paws are Frosty Paws and not legally a treat).
She times her afternoon walk to the period when Ranger Bob is most likely to be available. At 3 PM she makes herself a nuisance until she can run over and say hello, drink his outside water, and earn some treats (by barking commands at him). He tells her how spoiled she is and gives her "only eight."
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| Staff are never too young to be trained. |
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Typical GA Prankster from Mordor
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| This is the appropriate attitude at Mequon (Mordor), so they all graduate "the same," as boasted by the WELS First VP and Fuller graduate. |
This fellow with almost no profile on Facebook wanted to join the Classic Lutheran Books page. He also wanted the missing Lenski volume (a mistake I made in uploading). He feigned happiness at having the set as PDFs.
Basic to all WELS synodical schools - they specialize in lying. They think they are quite clever when they deceive, forget, remember and forget again. They smirk about it with their friends. It goes back to their GA hazing and other systematic hazing efforts, at prep, MLC, and Mordor. Ritual abuse and humiliation are key in creating a passive uniformity and mediocrity. If there is anything WELS can brag about, it is the mediocrity of their clergy and teachers.
Doubtless this "Dan Shull" is back at the dorm, bragging about his brief moment of celebrity on Facebook. Lying is easy - especially in WELS - but telling the truth is more difficult. They say honest people promote honest people and crooks promote crooks. That explains why so many WELS leaders are alcoholic adulterers. It is the mystique, the dysfunction of the sect. Their dogma and bullying are accompanied by copious amounts of alcohol, which they imagine they can control. After 20 years they are physically and emotionally enslaved, brittle, easily angered, and prone to cross center lines and intercept a utility pole. No problem, the lying drunk leaders protect and promote their younger counterparts.
At the synod schools they have special all-male sessions - SCORE REPORTS - where they describe to the group all they have done with their dates. When one wife objected to this behavior in a conversation, her ordained husband burst out laughing. They have their shorthand too, code to mix up outsiders, like CP in Watertown. Thus GA no longer exists, because hazing is called HB or something else.
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| This is closer to the truth. |
So I did some looking around on Facebook and saw that this new member of Classic Lutheran Books posted the curriculum of Mordor. Most people have never heard of WELS, so who would do that when the page description is so clear, plain, and easy to comprehend:
About
"This group is aimed at promoting classic Lutheran books, many of them available but often overlooked. I am excluding the Synodical Conference books, because they already have their own cheerleaders in the LCMS, WELS, and ELS. Overlooked authors include such men as Schmau, Krauth, Jacobs, Reu, and Lenski. In spite of the superficial hype during the 500th Anniversary, Luther is the most ignored author. Others include Melanchthon, Chytraeus, and Chemnitz." We have 340 members.
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| The faculty? Nothing but the best...blood relatives, in-laws, Enthusiasts, and NIV lovers. Fuller alumni who lie about going to Fuller are elevated to professor, vp, and seminary president. |
Doubtless this "Dan Shull" is back at the dorm, bragging about his brief moment of celebrity on Facebook. Lying is easy - especially in WELS - but telling the truth is more difficult. They say honest people promote honest people and crooks promote crooks. That explains why so many WELS leaders are alcoholic adulterers. It is the mystique, the dysfunction of the sect. Their dogma and bullying are accompanied by copious amounts of alcohol, which they imagine they can control. After 20 years they are physically and emotionally enslaved, brittle, easily angered, and prone to cross center lines and intercept a utility pole. No problem, the lying drunk leaders protect and promote their younger counterparts.
At the synod schools they have special all-male sessions - SCORE REPORTS - where they describe to the group all they have done with their dates. When one wife objected to this behavior in a conversation, her ordained husband burst out laughing. They have their shorthand too, code to mix up outsiders, like CP in Watertown. Thus GA no longer exists, because hazing is called HB or something else.
When someone objected to the WELS "Party in the MLC," I posted the information and that lit up three schools at once (MLC, Bethany, and WLC). I had a new group of readers who were unaware and warned "not to waste their time on Ichabod."
Little "Dan" has stirred up a few new readers, maybe on a dare. Thank you. Total views for Monday and Tuesday are approximately 5,000.
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| The trans-formation continues in WELS. |
What Will Thrivent Say? WELS? LCMS? ELS?
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| Where was the diversity at her installation as pastor? |
Megan Rohrer (they/their), San Francisco, Calif., was elected May 8 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA. Rohrer is the first transgender bishop in the ELCA. The election took place during an online synod assembly.
Rohrer was elected on the fifth ballot, with 209 votes. Jeff R. Johnson, pastor of University Lutheran Chapel of Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., received 207 votes.
The bishop-elect has served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco since 2014 and as community chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department since 2018. They served as executive director of the Welcome Ministry in San Francisco from 2002 to 2014, assistant night minister for the San Francisco Night Ministry from 2013 to 2018 and community garden coordinator at Project Homeless Connect from 2010 to 2012. Rohrer also served as pastor of a multiparish call serving the homeless and hungry at Welcome Ministry from 2006 to 2014.
Rohrer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Augustana University in Sioux Fall, S.D., in 2001, a Master of Divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley in 2005, and a Doctor of Ministry degree in 2017. Rohrer is currently a doctoral candidate in transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Augustana is one of 26 ELCA colleges and universities.
Rohrer’s installation is scheduled for Sept. 11 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mark W. Holmerud has served as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod since 2008 and will retire June 30.
Read more about:
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| The WELS Tele-Tubbies are key enablers for Thrivent's ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS union, and ELCA's most progressive leaders. |
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| Guy Erwin, the previous San Francisco ELCA bishop, is now the president of United Lutheran Seminary, a merger of Gettysburg and Philadelphia Seminaries. |
Guy Erwin (he/him) is the president of United Lutheran Seminary in Pennsylvania, and in 2013 was elected as the
First Openly Trans Pastor in ELCA Now the Bishop-Elect - Meghan Rohrer.
WELS Schools Do The Same - Prep, College, Seminary, and the Parish
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| WELS Pastor Adam Mueller, Church and Change leader, led his church council members in a transgender family picnic, publishing photos for everyone to copy. He was recently honored as a speaker at a national WELS conference. |
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| Bishop-Elect Rohrer's LinkedIn Page |
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Lutherans install
A transgender person who runs a ministry for the homeless was installed last weekend as the spiritual leader at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of San Francisco, making them the first trans leader of a Lutheran congregation.
The February 22 service for the Reverend Megan Rohrer at the Sunset district chapel was well-attended.
Congregants joyfully took part in the service, which included praise songs set to the music of the Beatles. Dubbed Beatles Mass, the lyrics were written by Rohrer, sung to the beat of well-known tunes like "Across the Universe" and "Let it Be." The congregation sang "The Meal" to the tune of "Hey Jude," in preparation for receiving communion. As the congregation sang and clapped, Rohrer held up the bread and wine for all to see.
"The worship that we used at the installation was created for an evening worship at St. Aidan's Episcopal," Rohrer, 33, explained. "In hope of attracting young people and those new to the church, I created a Lady Gaga Mass. The service gained a lot of attention, and I was able to share it at congregations around the country. Many of the young people knew the tunes, but the older generation had a difficult time. I created the Beatles Mass because the tunes were recognized by both older and younger members and participants often leave the service feeling uplifted."
The reverend, who prefers the pronoun they, has been opening doors for years. In 2006, Rohrer was the first transgender pastor to be ordained by the Lutheran church.
In addition to their duties at Grace Lutheran, Rohrer is involved in transgender spiritual outreach.
"I meet annually with a group of about 150 transgender pastors and faith leaders from diverse faiths at a retreat hosted by the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies in Berkeley," Rohrer said. "We talk about how we can support and learn from each other, and the best practices for sharing our stories, advocating for trans individuals and our own employment needs. There may be many more than that, but some people choose not to be open about their transgender status after they transition. This is why I use the word openly transgender in my identification."
Transgender pastors, Rohrer said, serve a very special need.
"Many transgender pastors and faith leaders work in specialized ministry to support vulnerable populations," Rohrer said. "When it comes to faithfully serving LGBT individuals or the homeless, being transgender is often an asset. Very few openly transgender pastors are able to find work leading a congregation. I believe this will change as society becomes more welcoming and understanding of transgender issues."
Part of Rohrer's work at Grace Lutheran will be to continue opening doors.
"We take the name Grace seriously, so we will be doing outreach to people of all shapes and sizes," Rohrer said. "The congregation is enthusiastic about welcoming everyone, particularly those who have been lied to and told they are not good enough to be part of a faith community. We even want people who feel uncomfortable stepping into a church to join us for our weekly worship and "Bible Study That Doesn't Suck" livestreams."
Beyond work at Grace, Rohrer is involved with Night Ministry.
"This is a group of pastors who provide a presence on the streets of San Francisco from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.," Rohrer said. "The Night Ministry also operates a crisis line. The ministry is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and was founded by a group of Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist pastors who were working with homeless youth in the Tenderloin."
Rohrer added that the Night Ministry visits LGBT bars throughout the city and provides care and support to the drag court system.
Rohrer is happy to be a part of history.
"I am honored to be Grace's pastor and to be part of this historic new opportunity for transgender pastors," Rohrer said. "For over a decade I have been advocating and working toward a time when LGBT individuals would be welcome in the pews and behind the pulpits. Despite all my prayers, I never expected to see this kind of change within my lifetime."
News Briefs: Trans person to
Earlier that day, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Welcome Ministry will be hosting a health and vision event at St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church Street. SF CARES will provide free glasses for those who need them. Rohrer said the event will be "like a mini LGBTQ Connect." Folks from Project Homeless Connect will help people sign up for cellphone service, a doctor will provide flu shots, and physical therapists will be on hand for free consultations.
As for Rohrer's installation, she said that she would be the first openly transgender pastor of a congregation in the Lutheran church.
On Sunday, February 23, Rohrer will be recognized with an honorable mention as an unsung hero of compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who will be in San Francisco for the event, being held by Wisdom in Action, a Bay Area nonprofit.
In the News: Bay Area Reporter
Lutherans install
first trans pastor
NEWS
Published 02/27/2014
by David-Elijah Nahmod
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Britney Wheat, left, holds a booklet as pastor Susan Strouse of First United Lutheran Church, right, installs the Reverend Megan Rohrer, center, as pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church.
(Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland) |
The February 22 service for the Reverend Megan Rohrer at the Sunset district chapel was well-attended.
Congregants joyfully took part in the service, which included praise songs set to the music of the Beatles. Dubbed Beatles Mass, the lyrics were written by Rohrer, sung to the beat of well-known tunes like "Across the Universe" and "Let it Be." The congregation sang "The Meal" to the tune of "Hey Jude," in preparation for receiving communion. As the congregation sang and clapped, Rohrer held up the bread and wine for all to see.
"The worship that we used at the installation was created for an evening worship at St. Aidan's Episcopal," Rohrer, 33, explained. "In hope of attracting young people and those new to the church, I created a Lady Gaga Mass. The service gained a lot of attention, and I was able to share it at congregations around the country. Many of the young people knew the tunes, but the older generation had a difficult time. I created the Beatles Mass because the tunes were recognized by both older and younger members and participants often leave the service feeling uplifted."
The reverend, who prefers the pronoun they, has been opening doors for years. In 2006, Rohrer was the first transgender pastor to be ordained by the Lutheran church.
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| Meghan will replace the bishop who became president of United (sic) Lutheran Seminary. |
In addition to their duties at Grace Lutheran, Rohrer is involved in transgender spiritual outreach.
"I meet annually with a group of about 150 transgender pastors and faith leaders from diverse faiths at a retreat hosted by the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies in Berkeley," Rohrer said. "We talk about how we can support and learn from each other, and the best practices for sharing our stories, advocating for trans individuals and our own employment needs. There may be many more than that, but some people choose not to be open about their transgender status after they transition. This is why I use the word openly transgender in my identification."
Transgender pastors, Rohrer said, serve a very special need.
"Many transgender pastors and faith leaders work in specialized ministry to support vulnerable populations," Rohrer said. "When it comes to faithfully serving LGBT individuals or the homeless, being transgender is often an asset. Very few openly transgender pastors are able to find work leading a congregation. I believe this will change as society becomes more welcoming and understanding of transgender issues."
Part of Rohrer's work at Grace Lutheran will be to continue opening doors.
"We take the name Grace seriously, so we will be doing outreach to people of all shapes and sizes," Rohrer said. "The congregation is enthusiastic about welcoming everyone, particularly those who have been lied to and told they are not good enough to be part of a faith community. We even want people who feel uncomfortable stepping into a church to join us for our weekly worship and "Bible Study That Doesn't Suck" livestreams."
Beyond work at Grace, Rohrer is involved with Night Ministry.
"This is a group of pastors who provide a presence on the streets of San Francisco from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.," Rohrer said. "The Night Ministry also operates a crisis line. The ministry is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and was founded by a group of Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist pastors who were working with homeless youth in the Tenderloin."
Rohrer added that the Night Ministry visits LGBT bars throughout the city and provides care and support to the drag court system.
Rohrer is happy to be a part of history.
"I am honored to be Grace's pastor and to be part of this historic new opportunity for transgender pastors," Rohrer said. "For over a decade I have been advocating and working toward a time when LGBT individuals would be welcome in the pews and behind the pulpits. Despite all my prayers, I never expected to see this kind of change within my lifetime."
For more information on Grace Lutheran, visit www.gracesf.com. For Rohrer's website, visit http://revrohrer.blogspot.com.
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| These WELS MLC college students thought "Party in the Fire Island Pines" was so special, they copied it. A local paper covered the story - and the lies. |
Thursday, February 20, 2014
In the News: Bay Area Reporter
News Briefs: Trans person to
pastor Lutheran church
NEWS
Published 02/20/2014
compiled by Cynthia Laird
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Megan Rohrer, a transgender person who has been running Welcome Ministry, a group that helps homeless people in San Francisco, will be installed as the pastor at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3201 Ulloa Street (at 33rd) during a service Saturday, February 22 at 7 p.m.
Earlier that day, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Welcome Ministry will be hosting a health and vision event at St. Francis Lutheran Church, 152 Church Street. SF CARES will provide free glasses for those who need them. Rohrer said the event will be "like a mini LGBTQ Connect." Folks from Project Homeless Connect will help people sign up for cellphone service, a doctor will provide flu shots, and physical therapists will be on hand for free consultations.
As for Rohrer's installation, she said that she would be the first openly transgender pastor of a congregation in the Lutheran church.
On Sunday, February 23, Rohrer will be recognized with an honorable mention as an unsung hero of compassion by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who will be in San Francisco for the event, being held by Wisdom in Action, a Bay Area nonprofit.
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| Start them early at Michigan Lutheran Seminary (prep school, WELS). Make up, cheer-leader skirts, the whole package. |
Previously on LinkedIn - Meghan Rohrer's Work Experience
Assistant Night Minister
Night Ministry
San Francisco, CAThe San Francisco Night Ministry provides middle-of-the-night compassionate non-judgmental pastoral care, counseling, referral and crisis intervention to anyone in any kind of distress. Through our Crisis Telephone Line staffed by trained volunteer Crisis Line Counselors; and through person-to-person encounters with ordained clergy on the streets, this ministry is available every night of the year from 10:00 pm - 4:00 am.
Contributing Blogger
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Welcome to LivingLutheran.com
Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair and join us at the table for a conversation about what it means to “live Lutheran.”
LivingLutheran.com serves up a daily blend of culture, conversation and community for ELCA members and friends. We’re looking for answers about what it all means and hope you’ll stop by to put in your two cents.
You won’t find breaking news here, although there’s plenty of commentary on what’s happening in the world and what ELCA members think about it. We have resources for congregations, videos to inspire and amuse and places to share what’s on your mind.
We’re probably being a bit presumptuous, but we like to think that Martin Luther would approve.
Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair and join us at the table for a conversation about what it means to “live Lutheran.”
LivingLutheran.com serves up a daily blend of culture, conversation and community for ELCA members and friends. We’re looking for answers about what it all means and hope you’ll stop by to put in your two cents.
You won’t find breaking news here, although there’s plenty of commentary on what’s happening in the world and what ELCA members think about it. We have resources for congregations, videos to inspire and amuse and places to share what’s on your mind.
We’re probably being a bit presumptuous, but we like to think that Martin Luther would approve.
Executive Director
Welcome
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CAWelcome seeks to provide a faithful response to poverty and to improve the quality of life for individuals in our community by providing: hospitality; education; food; and referrals for housing, health care and drug and alcohol treatment.
Major Projects include:
*Saturday Community Dinners (feeds between 150 and 300 individuals twice a month)
*Tuesday Welcome Center (feeds 25-45 each Tuesday and provides one-on-one care)
*Community Gardening Project (grown and given away more than 7,000 pounds of free produce on unused church properties in the San Francisco Bay Area)
*Just Lutheran (a do-it-yourself guide to responding to poverty)
*LGBTQ homeless youth leadership project (recording the oral histories of homeless youth around the country and mentoring San Francisco youth who use the history of a similar group in the 60's, art and magazine writing to advocate for their needs)
*SF CARES (a partnership with the San Francisco Night Ministry, St. Paulus Lutheran Church and the Faithful Fools to advocate for individuals with mental health issues and traumatic brain injuries).
Major Projects include:
*Saturday Community Dinners (feeds between 150 and 300 individuals twice a month)
*Tuesday Welcome Center (feeds 25-45 each Tuesday and provides one-on-one care)
*Community Gardening Project (grown and given away more than 7,000 pounds of free produce on unused church properties in the San Francisco Bay Area)
*Just Lutheran (a do-it-yourself guide to responding to poverty)
*LGBTQ homeless youth leadership project (recording the oral histories of homeless youth around the country and mentoring San Francisco youth who use the history of a similar group in the 60's, art and magazine writing to advocate for their needs)
*SF CARES (a partnership with the San Francisco Night Ministry, St. Paulus Lutheran Church and the Faithful Fools to advocate for individuals with mental health issues and traumatic brain injuries).
Provider and Resource Manager
Project Homeless Connect
San Francisco, CAThe mission of Project Homeless Connect (PHC) is to provide a single location where non profit medical and social service providers collaborate to serve the homeless of San Francisco with comprehensive, holistic services.
Growing Home Community Garden Manager
Project Homeless Connect
Octavia/Lily, San Francisco, CAThe Growing Home Community Garden won the 2010 NEN Best Community Challenge Grant Project.
Growing Home's Seeding Resilience project, increases access to mental health services and provides employment opportunities and skills. A two year innovation project with major support provided by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), the Seeding Resilience project is 75% focused on the Growing Home Community Garden (Octavia & Lily) and 25% on working with Urban Agricultural leaders in San Francisco to build a citywide network of support for mental health consumers.
SF Refresh, hosted six daylong citywide events that enabled San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011. Activities included: gardening classes, yoga, life couching, meditation, trauma care, nutrition classes, massage, acupuncture, tea and coffee cuppings, movement classes, preventative health care information and more. In addition to providing direct services to those who need them, SF Refresh connected individuals and families to self care resources available through the city's system of care, local businesses and non-profit organizations.
Growing Home's Seeding Resilience project, increases access to mental health services and provides employment opportunities and skills. A two year innovation project with major support provided by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), the Seeding Resilience project is 75% focused on the Growing Home Community Garden (Octavia & Lily) and 25% on working with Urban Agricultural leaders in San Francisco to build a citywide network of support for mental health consumers.
SF Refresh, hosted six daylong citywide events that enabled San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011. Activities included: gardening classes, yoga, life couching, meditation, trauma care, nutrition classes, massage, acupuncture, tea and coffee cuppings, movement classes, preventative health care information and more. In addition to providing direct services to those who need them, SF Refresh connected individuals and families to self care resources available through the city's system of care, local businesses and non-profit organizations.
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