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Recent Oasis E-Newsletters

2011

February

28 Join Oasis at the 2011 Clergy Call for Justice and Equality; Dignity honors Deacon Vince; Absalom Jones Day Celebrated In Oakland's St. Paul's Church; GEN SILENT Director Boosts LGBT Seniors & Aging Conf

21 Valentine's Day - but no wedding bells - for same sex couples; 2 S.F. Lutheran Churches Face Rejoining ELCA's Sierra Synod; Deanery Discussion Set On Proposed Anglican Covenant

14 Deanery Discussion Set On Proposed Anglican Covenant; "God Created You": Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats; Diginity honors Deacon Vince Jang with Pax et Bonum Service Award; Gay Rights Activists Condemn Ugandan "Spiritual War"  

7  Religious Ritual or Child Abuse? David Kato's Murder Sparks World Wide Condemnation; What is to be made, theologically, of the unabashedly male-dominated, hierarchical world of Genesis?

January

31 Diginity honors Vince Jang with Pax et Bonum Service Award; Brueggemann see Bible as constantly capable of yielding 'new kind of reality;' Anti-racism Training in February and for Lent

24 Gay Parents Find the South More Welcoming, Integrity USA celebrates 10 Years of Called to Common Mission;" RC Diocese offers 12-step program to 'help' the gays

21 Breaking: Episcopal diocese of Fort Worth wins summary judgement

19 Clergy Call to participate in the Valentine's Day Marriage Action

14 Deanery Discussion Set On Proposed Anglican Covenant, "God Created You": Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats, Gay Rights Activists Condemn Ugandan "Spiritual War," Anti-racism Training in February and for Lent

8 Loving Out Loud for Valentine's Day, Bishop Christopher Steps Up @ David Kato's Burial Service, Diginity honors Deacon Vince Jang with Pax et Bonum Service Award

3 Historic Lesbian Marriage in Boston Cathedral Unites Top Clergy of Episcopal Church; History of Slavery in the Golden State Set for Discussion;' Archbishop of Canterbury assesses impact of King James Bible 

2010

December

27 Special Report: What Goes On at 'Conversion Camp';  What Matters To Millenials: Pew Study; 40 Percent Of Americans Still Believe In Creationism; AIDS still thought of as a gay disease in black America

20  Rev. Jesse Jackson Supports Marriage Equality, End of Prop 8; What did Jesus say about homosexuality?  What Is the Anglican Covenant And Why Should We Care About It?

13 Clergy Call For Marriage Equality,Return of Religious Freedom Outside US Court of Appeals

6 Dec. 6 Community Meeting on Prop 8 Appeal, World AIDS Day Report

November  

22 Multicultural Roundtable Discusses Healing in the Diocese; Dec. 5 event to support Judge Walker'd Prop 8 ruling

16 NAES Works to Protect LGBTQ Students from
Bullying In Church Schools

8  Oasis Meets College Chaplains To Assess
LGBTQ Student Needs

1   Planning starts on 2011 Conference on LGBT
  Faith & Aging - first in California

October   

25   Anti-Prop 8 Brief Draws Clergy Support

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