Several of you have indicated to me over the last month that you want to find more ways to intentionally live into our UCH/Jesus values statement. So I'm going to start including more articles in Updates that will spark conversation and help us do that from different angles.

Here is a great article from "Them" magazine about using gender neutral pronouns.

Action items:

Read the article. Think on it. What can you work on? Pray for God to give you awareness.
I invite everyone to share your pronouns on Zoom during worship as part of our public Open & Affirming commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community. If you don't know how to do that tech-wise, Ashley, Steve, or I would be glad to help. If you want to talk to me about it I'm here.
Also, if you mess up someone's pronouns, don't crawl under the bed and make it all about you. Just apologize and do it differently. Its hard to get our brains out of the grooves of privilege they live in and on different, better tracks. Maybe that is what Paul was getting at (in one of his stellar moments) when he talked about "being not conformed to the world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds" in Romans 12.

Also helpful: Think of it like learning a new language like the author suggests. Here's the article. -Rev. Jeanne

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