Reconciling Works

Zac Baker  In case you haven’t heard about GivingTuesday, it’s a nationwide effort to inspire financial generosity toward non-profits at the very beginning of the holiday giving season.  It comes on the coat tails of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. This year GivingTuesday is on December 2, 2014.  I am the Interim Executive […]

JamieAnn MeyersTransgender RepresentativeReconcilingWorks Board of Directors Next week, November 20, is the 16th marking of the International Day of Transgender Remembrance.  On that day we gather as trans* people and allies alike to memorialize those of our trans* community who have been murdered this past year because of the fear and hatred spawned by transphobia, […]

[Three questions were put to the Reverend Jim Siefkes, instigator of the process in 1974 that created ReconcilingWorks (Formally known as Lutherans Concerned for Gay People).] “What’s your overall reaction looking backwards at the June 1974 beginning and the ministry ReconcilingWorks has turned out to be?” I still believe in miracles.  I am ever so […]

Transgender Day of Remembrance [TDOR] is commemorated on November 20 each year and is the single most important observance on the calendar for trans* people and their communities. On this day we memorialize and celebrate the lives of all trans* people, known and unknown, who have been murdered out of fear and hate during the past year.  TDOR is also an act of resistance, a way to restore dignity, a vigil for justice, an opportunity for trans* people to rise up from isolation and to seek support, and an opportunity to recommit to live our lives with determination and hope.

Veterans Day, a relic of the “war to end all wars” that didn’t, can be like Labor Day, filled with activities other than reflection on those honored by the day.

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