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WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be fully seen and accepted? In a new temporary audio-visual exhibition, OTN trustee Augustine Tanner Ihm recounts the moment when his searching for a space to be ‘all of who he is’ comes to an end.

ON SATURDAY 13th August, the good folk from Open Table Chester and Wesley Church Centre took to the streets to celebrate the city’s Pride festival. Inspired by this joyful celebration, Suzanne wrote this poem to mark the occasion.

JOIN AN IT SUPPORT TEAM on a musical quest to stop the Apocalypse. 12+ Adult themes around mental health, domestic abuse and conversion therapy. Skitzoid Productions, which aims to create challenging, entertaining and creative theatre that pushes at the boundaries of what can be done on stage, are excited to bring their third original musical to Waterloo East Theatre this October.

IN THE LATEST episode of a podcast ‘for migrants by migrants’, two people with experience of seeking asylum share their stories, one who won leave to remain in the UK with support from an Open Table community, and another who is afraid to get support from an LGBT-affirming Christian community because she fears that the Black African church she attends will no longer support her.

OTN PATRON Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, is among 90 bishops who signed a statement saying ‘we believe that LGBT+ people are a precious part of God’s creation’ in response to a Call on Human Dignity at the Lambeth Conference of global Anglican leaders yesterday.

AS PART of the Christians At Pride service at Liverpool Cathedral last weekend, Sue Say, a member of Open Table Liverpool, offered this reflection on the theme ‘Come Together’, inspired by St Paul’s image of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-26).

THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE, a gathering of bishops from across the Anglican Communion for dialogue on church and world affairs, begins in Canterbury this week. Steven Shakespeare, author of Prayers for an inclusive church, calls out one of this year’s Lambeth Calls’ which claims express the common mind of the church but clearly doesn’t.

AT A PRIDE event hosted by a church in her diocese last weekend, OTN Patron Bishop Cherry Vann offered this reflection on the love of God in and for every one of us, without exception.

AT OUR Open Table Liverpool communion service this month, Revd Frances Skinner, a trans priest from the Diocese of Chester, shared this powerful sermon on the radical hospitality Jesus practiced which we are called to emulate.

FOR THE FIRST TIME in the Open Table Network, our community in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, hosted an informal and relaxed service of thanksgiving for the civil partnership of regular members CJ and Jake this month.