Aubrey Thonvold  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...Continue reading→

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,...Continue reading→

[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...Continue reading→