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Open Table Network trustee Augustine Tanner-Ihm has written a powerful article for the Student Christian Movement magazine, in which he argues that ‘The rainbow cannot be a sign of joy and peace if it doesn’t recognize the missing colours. It ceases to be a rainbow’.

TODAY, thanks to funding from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund, our Network Co-ordinator Kieran Bohan is starting full-time hours for the next six months to help our communities respond to the crisis and raise our online presence to reach more isolated LGBTQIA+ folk.

THIS MORNING, one of the new Patrons of the Open Table Network, Rachel Mann, led BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship on the theme of ‘Urban Harvest’, and invited our Network Co-ordinator, Kieran Bohan, to share a short reflection.

OTN Coordinator Kieran Bohan pays tribute to someone who has been a personal inspiration, and is now a Patron of the Open Table Network - Revd Dr Barbara Glasson, outgoing President of the Methodist Conference in Britain

IN THESE extraordinary times, when we are unable to gather in physical community, we have begun to explore ways to stay connected online, starting with our first national worship gathering on YouTube this month.

IN 1984, charismatic preacher Billy Graham came to Liverpool at the invitation of local churches as part of a six-date tour called Mission England. This June, his son Franklin intends to come to the city, though the venue has withdrawn the booking, as have all seven of the other UK venues on his planned tour. So what’s going on? Our Coordinator Kieran responds:

AT A carol service last Sunday, hosted by the first Open Table community in Liverpool, we heard this prayer, which was moving, inspiring and too good not to share.

ARE WE spiritual beings having an embodied experience or embodied beings capable of spiritual experience? Our Coordinator Kieran reflects on a workshop for trainee spiritual directors.

LAST WEEKEND around 80 people gathered to celebrate the growth of the Open Table Network as part of the Church of England Diocese of Liverpool's turn to host Bishops In Mission, an initiative of the Archbishop of York where each Diocese in the north of England hosts visiting teams headed by northern bishops.

FEBRUARY is LGBT History Month in the UK, an annual commemoration of the lives and achievements of LGBT+ people. Kieran Bohan, Open Table Network Coordinator, reviews how four Open Table communities marked the month.