Priest without Portfolio

Tag: LGBTQ+

  • The Miracle of the Pink Elephant: A Reflection on Motherhood

    The Miracle of the Pink Elephant: A Reflection on Motherhood

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    Rev Vanessa Cole, Priest without Portfolio
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    This week’s reflections highlight the beauty of unconventional parenthood through various animal stories and a personal account of mothering a transgender child. Emphasizing acceptance over blame, the narrative challenges societal judgments, asserting that differences in children are not due to parental failings. Embracing love and support, it uplifts parents of unique children.

  • Freedom

    Freedom

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    Rev Vanessa Cole, Priest without Portfolio
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    In this season as everything seems to be hotting-up, we should receive with gracious hospitality the conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine, Iran, we receive the growing belittlement and control of women, we hold the hatred and lack of humanity towards our transgender and LGBTQIA+ siblings, and breathe prayers of peace and freedom into them as…

  • Where’s Wally?

    Where’s Wally?

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    Rev Vanessa Cole, Priest without Portfolio
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    Time and again, though, we see Peter, James, and John, selected when Andrew is left behind. Just as James and John were brothers and fishing partners, so were Peter and Andrew, and the four of them were cousins. In other gospel accounts the four fishermen are called together, yet Jesus separates Andrew out, and I…