RT @tmccormick
@MarleeBower @Hindawi "When More Satisfying and Supportive Relationships Increase Loneliness: The Social Worlds of People with Lived Experience of Homelessness." new #OpenAccess paper by @MarleeBower, @TheMatilda_USyd @EndLonelinessAU https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/9836967 #homelessness #loneliness #disaffiliation https://twitter.com/marleebower/status/1641238328707252225

Unite committees table disaffiliation from Labour for union’s conference – SKWAWKBOX
#Unite
#Labour
#Disaffiliation
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/03/06/unite-committees-table-disaffiliation-from-labour-for-unions-conference/

Following a recent vote where many of our small town neighbors chose to cast people like me and my husband out of the church, my first inclination is to obsess on the homophobic bigots surrounding us.

How much better, though, to focus on the folks who, at great personal cost, stood up for us, spoke up for us, and fought for us. Doing so cost many of them friendships that had endured for decades -- and in two cases, their jobs.

#SeeTheLight

#LGBT #disaffiliation #hope

Most of what I've written about the trauma of #disaffiliation in the #UnitedMethodistChurch has been rooted in intellectual or theological arguments ... or even driven by my own frustrations as our local congregation chose to close its doors to gay and lesbian people.

This most recent piece is written purely from the heart ... and has to do with cookies, of all things.

#UMC #StayUMC

https://madebymark.com/2023/03/02/of-cookies-and-legacies/

#unitedmethodistchurch #UMC #globalmethodistchurch #GMC #disaffiliation #schism #christianity #protestantism #Methodist #methodists #Methodism #Wesleyan

"Tornado Warning," the latest of my #shortstories, is guaranteed not to be awarded "Best of 2023" in the Global Methodist Church's literary competition.

#shortfiction #Methodism #UMC #disaffiliation

https://madebymark.com/2023/01/18/tornado-warning/

Big kudos to the North Georgia Conference of the #UMC for suspending its #disaffiliation process over the massive #misinformation campaign designed to frighten church members into disaffiliating.

Church leaders in many congregations are using falsehoods, defamation, and scare tactics to frighten church members into voting to disaffiliate, skewing the vote.

https://www.ngumc.org/newsdetail/north-georgia-conference-to-pause-disaffiliation-process-17216662

Methodist catfight over -- well, take a fucking guess. #disAffiliation https://www.kait8.com/2022/12/16/fumc-senior-pastor-suspended-following-second-disaffiliation-vote/ #LGBTQ

I imagine there's a lot unsaid in this article, but I'm not going to dig any deeper.