Chris Schmid – Transatlantic Partnership Coordinator
Chris Schmid is the newly appointed Transatlantic Partnership Coordinator. He is bridging the UCC (United Church of Christ) churches in the USA and the KKBS (Protestant Church District of Berlin City Center) in Berlin. Chris holds a
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Reflections from Bright Ofosu Amoabeng, Interfaith Dialogue Coordinator of LGBT+ Rights in Ghana
I live in a part of the world where freedom of religion and beliefs are greatly undermined within a culture of staunch indoctrination. Meanwhile, the concept of religion is used as a tool to discriminate against vulnerable groups and promote division
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Reflections from Bertho Makso, founder of Proud Lebanon
Stephan Jäkel from Schwulenberatung notified me that the Church organized a panel to talk about the impact of Religion on LGBTIQ activism, and I felt awkward! I thought, "the Church and LGBTIQ activism, how would these two worlds ever meet?" I come
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Donations for people of the Ukraine
Diakonie-Katastrophenhilfe (Disaster Aid) is on site to help people in the Ukraine or to support them as they flee the war zones:https://www.diakonie-katastrophenhilfe.de/spende/ukraine _________________________________________________________
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BERLIN (KKBS) AND I
By Melva Victorino - 2022
Commission on Ecumenical & Interfaith Relationsof the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC)
If there is such a thing as “Love at first sight,” then it happened to me! In the
Commission on Ecumenical & Interfaith Relationsof the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC)
If there is such a thing as “Love at first sight,” then it happened to me! In the
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Reflections from Rev. Dr. Vanessa M. Brown, Senior Pastor of Rivers of Living Water UCC NY/NJ
As a black, LGBTQI+ (Queer) woman that is also clergy and the faith leader of a predominantly Black congregation when it comes to the intersections of my womanhood, queerness and Blackness, freedom is an all-encompassing concept. It
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Reflections from Rev. Ann Kansfield, Pastor of UCC Greenpoint Reformed Church, Brooklyn, NYC
My colleague Rev. Micah Bucey wrote about our deep love and affection for Berlin’s CSD celebration. His congregation, Judson Memorial, is in the heart of Greenwich Village, not far from Christopher Street. Judson, like the neighborhood that surrounds
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Christopher Street Day 2022
Once again we will be on the CSD parade float this year. The float represents the Protestant Church (EKD) in Berlin´s motto "Love heals the soul" (“Liebe tut der Seele gut”). . We will be joined by international guests and representatives of the
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Reflections from Rev. Micah Bucey (UCC Judson Memorial Church, New York)
June 28 is a sacred and holy day in the lives of LGBTQIA+ people. On that date in 1969, at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, a united force of our gritty, glittery forequeers, those who had been continually harassed by police, those who had
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