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YESTERDAY was International Pronouns Day, which has really got me thinking about how to better explain my pronouns to other people, writes OTN Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young.

THE CO-CHAIRS of the Open Table Network, Alex Clare-Young and Sarah Hobbs, have each recorded two newly released podcasts - one each, and one together, newly published online.

MONDAY 11th October is #ComingOutDay - Will you #ComeOutForOpenTable by sharing and supporting our Crowdfunder? The Open Table Network helps make loving places where LGBTQIA+ people of faith belong safely. As more people hear of us, there’s much more work to do.

ON National Coming Out Day, Open Table Liverpool co-facilitator Warren Hartley reflects on what ‘coming out’ might mean for us as LGBTQIA+ Christians.

AN ONLINE SURVEY is launched today on World Mental Health Day, to understand just how safe UK LGBT+ Christians feel in their churches, and what can be done to make them feel safer.

TODAY marks the first anniversary of the Open Table Network Coordinator taking on the role full-time. We look back on the impact the Open Table Network has made in the past twelve months.

ON Saturday 25th September 2021, Open Table South London held a study day to introduce people to Open Table, and to their host church as a liberal and progressive space for theological discussion and inclusive worship. Fiona Thomas shares her reflection on the day.

FOLLOWING the success of our recent Q&As with our Patrons, in September our Q&A was a conversation between Barbara Glasson and Mark Rowland about the recent votes on marriage, conversion therapy and gender-neutral inclusive language at the Methodist Conference in June.

Following the Pride Eucharist at Manchester Cathedral, we caught up with Cathedral Curate, Revd Steve Hilton to find out why having this celebration as part of the city’s LGBT+ festival is important.

IN AN INTERVIEW with the Manchester Evening News this week, OTN trustee Augustine Tanner-Ihm, recently appointed as a curate at St James and Emmanuel Didsbury, shared his journey through poverty, racism, homophobia and conversion therapy.