Thank you for keeping us current on your travels. It's great to hear that you are as active as ever and you see your new life as a spiritual awakening. A lot of religious people don't understand that and that it's a wonderfully indescribable awareness that only you have with the Divine Most High. It's understandable that another clergy would lambast you for bucking the system and they don't understand that you have been attempting to clean up the mess that was already made and they continue to propogate. Some of us don't know or realize how deeply brainwashed and conditioned we are because we are chasing worldly things rather than walking the Road to.... Be well, my Brother. Stay safe and keep writing 🙏🏽✌🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽♥️♥️♥️
Where can I read an insider's account of the dynamics of the ELCA's Southern California Synod election? A Google search only brings up the official church news postings.
As an Episcopalian, I am all too well aware that the politicking at our Diocesan and General Conventions can get quite "heated" and would like to catch up with what you referenced in your post.
Bless you on your new missions. Keep stirring up sh** (AKA "good trouble")... I am praying for you and trying to follow your example.
I mean I don't know if anyone documented it. I just know people where not upset with the current Bishop Elect's winning, I happen to know her. It's just that it was the same old thing. Black and Brown folks ground up publicly then pit against Queer siblings or Trans sibling or our literal intersectional community. As for the Churchwide rep I asked him 3 times for the biographical info and questions I needed to answer as a candidate. He sent me the criminal history and the "did you fuck up ever and embarrass the church" form, official name btw, 3 times. By "mistake." I wasn't even a serous or top tier candidate and thats what this guy does to perhaps the most public formerly incarcarated leader in the denomination? Straight up micro and macro aggressive fuckery. If that is standard procedure the fact he didn't even pause to think how it would be received by me is doubly fucked. The system isn't an excuse, it's either in your way or a prop in your charade. You get to choose what you do with it. That was just me.
thank you for your words and your journey... honored to follow along.
I'm happy and excited for you, Lenny. Thank you for leading with your example and with radical love. Sending you my love from Chile!
Thank you for keeping us current on your travels. It's great to hear that you are as active as ever and you see your new life as a spiritual awakening. A lot of religious people don't understand that and that it's a wonderfully indescribable awareness that only you have with the Divine Most High. It's understandable that another clergy would lambast you for bucking the system and they don't understand that you have been attempting to clean up the mess that was already made and they continue to propogate. Some of us don't know or realize how deeply brainwashed and conditioned we are because we are chasing worldly things rather than walking the Road to.... Be well, my Brother. Stay safe and keep writing 🙏🏽✌🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽♥️♥️♥️
Where can I read an insider's account of the dynamics of the ELCA's Southern California Synod election? A Google search only brings up the official church news postings.
As an Episcopalian, I am all too well aware that the politicking at our Diocesan and General Conventions can get quite "heated" and would like to catch up with what you referenced in your post.
Bless you on your new missions. Keep stirring up sh** (AKA "good trouble")... I am praying for you and trying to follow your example.
Jon
I mean I don't know if anyone documented it. I just know people where not upset with the current Bishop Elect's winning, I happen to know her. It's just that it was the same old thing. Black and Brown folks ground up publicly then pit against Queer siblings or Trans sibling or our literal intersectional community. As for the Churchwide rep I asked him 3 times for the biographical info and questions I needed to answer as a candidate. He sent me the criminal history and the "did you fuck up ever and embarrass the church" form, official name btw, 3 times. By "mistake." I wasn't even a serous or top tier candidate and thats what this guy does to perhaps the most public formerly incarcarated leader in the denomination? Straight up micro and macro aggressive fuckery. If that is standard procedure the fact he didn't even pause to think how it would be received by me is doubly fucked. The system isn't an excuse, it's either in your way or a prop in your charade. You get to choose what you do with it. That was just me.
Were you asked to submit a candidate's statement and bio like everyone else?
nope. Just sent the scandal and criminal record form. Three times.