THIS WEEKEND the Bishop of Liverpool, Rt Revd Paul Bayes, will join the celebration of Open Table, an ecumenical Christian worship community which offers a warm welcome to people who are: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) and all who seek a more inclusive Church.
ON FRIDAY 7th July, the Church of England General Synod Human Sexuality group celebrated an Open Table Eucharist on the theme of 'Pride & Protest'. Members of the Open Table communities in London and Liverpool led the service in York, which more than 80 people attended.
THE DIOCESE of Bangor has celebrated the first meeting and worship of a new Chaplaincy for people who consider themselves to be members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex and Asexual community (LGBTQIA+)
ON THE EVE of the General Synod debate on marriage and same-sex relationships, Kieran and Warren from Open Table Liverpool attended the launch of OneBodyOneFaith (a merger of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement and Changing Attitude). Here is Kieran’s reflection on these events.
AT A carol service last Sunday, hosted by the first Open Table community in Liverpool, we heard this poem which was moving, inspiring and too good not to share.
Today (Saturday 29th October) is the final day of Asexual Awareness Week, created to celebrate asexual, aromantic, demisexual and grey-sexual pride and also to promote awareness. Amy, Gary and Katherine, members of Open Table at St Bride’s Liverpool, reflect on being asexual and raising awareness this month:
THE UK’S FIRST LGBTQIA+ chaplaincy has been officially launched by the Church In Wales Bishop of St Asaph. It will host monthly Open Table communion services for LGBTQIA+ Christians in north-east Wales starting in January 2017.
ON SATURDAY 2nd JULY 2016, members of Open Table Liverpool met representatives of the Open Table communities in Warrington, Manchester and North Wales, for an 'Appreciating Open Table' day, to help us discern our core values, how we share our vision, and where we want to go in the next three years.
WHEN I OFFERED to help look after the Open Table community stall at Liverpool Pride this year, I did not expect the experience to be quite so enriching and educational as it turned out to be.
JEN, a member of Open Table Liverpool, writes about walking with a Christian group in a Pride march for the first time. The theme of the Liverpool Pride march was ‘Icons’.
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