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Open Table Liverpool nominated for inaugural Sahir Award
Open Table Liverpool nominated for inaugural Sahir Award

We're deeply honoured that Open Table Liverpool has been nominated for an inaugural Sahir Award.

It is a joy to stand alongside so many incredible individuals, groups and organisations who serve and support the LGBTQIA+ community across the Liverpool City Region every day. We're proud simply to be included among you. Collectively, we help to make our region a kinder, more welcoming and more inclusive place.

Voting is now open for all the awards, and you can cast your vote for Open Table Liverpool and for all the nominees here:

https://www.sahir.org.uk/sahir-awards-2026/vote/

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Prayer for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2025
Prayer for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia 2025

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia is marked every year on May 17.

IDAHOBIT fosters a global moment for collective action, awareness, solidarity, and visibility, bringing together individuals, organisations, and governments under a shared global theme to highlight issues faced by LGBTQIA+ people around the world. This year's theme is 'the power of communities'.

To mark this day we’re sharing below a prayer written by our LGBTQIA+ Ministry Facilitator, Warren Hartley. We’re also re-sharing a Sermon from Open Table Liverpool for IDAHOTB in 2019, and this blog from Kieran Bohan, Director of Open Table Network.

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Open Hands: Pride at Liverpool Cathedral - We are God's work of art
Open Hands: Pride at Liverpool Cathedral - We are God's work of art

AT THE CLOSE of Pride in Liverpool on Sunday 30th July 2023, Liverpool Cathedral and Open Table collaborated to host a reflective service that brought us together and celebrated the vulnerability and visibility of Pride.

The theme of the service took inspiration from the statue of the Welcoming Christ by Elizabeth Frink which stands over the entrance to the Cathedral, greeting visitors to the Cathedral with open hands. We came with open hands to celebrate that God loves us all equally.

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No, the doctrine of marriage is not fixed - Why the CofE need not be afraid of change
No, the doctrine of marriage is not fixed - Why the CofE need not be afraid of change

GENERAL SYNOD, the Church of England’s governing body, debated the College of Bishops’ proposals for the next steps in the Living In Love And Faith process on identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage on 8th and 9th February 2023.

In response to a proposal that prayers for blessing same-gender relationships ‘should not be contrary to…the doctrine of the Church of England’, Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Team Rector of our parish, examined the assertion that the Church of England’s teaching on marriage has not change, and should not change

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Inclusive Christ, Inclusive Christianity - Reflection at Open Table #lgbtqia+ #comeasyouare
Inclusive Christ, Inclusive Christianity - Reflection at Open Table #lgbtqia+ #comeasyouare

On July 17th 2022 at our Open Table Service which celebrated Non-Binary Awareness week, the Revd Frances Skinner shared this powerful sermon on the radical hospitality Jesus practiced which we are called to emulate.

Reading Luke 10:31-end

[Image Credit: JESUS MAFA. Martha and Mary, public domain via from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.]

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