My Story - A reflection at Open Table #lgbtqia+ #comeasyouare
by an anonymous member of the Open Table Liverpool community on Sunday 6th June 2021
I heard the Parable of the Sower multiple times as a child, and never really understood it. When I was writing my story the share with Open Table, I started to see parts of the parable played out in my life and my journey with my faith.
Read MoreSabeel-Kairos are delighted to invite you to their annual conference 2021, taking place on Saturday 25th September
Read Moreby the Revd Dr Louis Johnson on Sunday 20th June 2021 for Open Table Liverpool’s 13th Anniversary
Reading: Mark 4.35-41
Good evening. It’s a real pleasure and a privilege to be with you all to share in this act of worship, and to be celebrating Holy Communion with the Open Table community for the first time. Our reading from Mark’s gospel presents us with one of the iconic images of Jesus in scripture, stilling the storm whilst all around him the disciples are losing their heads in panic
Read MoreA sermon from Beth Powell on shame and the hurt caused by not speaking out in the face of homophobic and transphobic comments, from the Sunday service at our sister church St Michael in the City, 11th July 2021.
Read More2021 marks forty years since the establishment of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. Our Churchwarden Sue Say lived at the Yellow Gate camp for two years and here she shares her memories of being part of the protest.
Read MoreA joint statement from sixteen UK charities, including Sabeel-Kairos UK and Christian Aid, on the situation in Israel/Palestine
Read MoreSabeel-Kairos is an advocacy-based Christian human rights charity promoting a just peace in Israel and Palestine. Lynn McAllister, who is our link wtht he charity, writes about a call to decisive action we can all join:
Read Moreby the Revd Louis Johnson on Sunday 17th January 2021
Reading:Matthew 8.5-13
Hello everyone, it’s a pleasure and a privilege to join you this evening, and I’d like to begin by thanking Open Table for asking me to come and speak, it feels like a real honour, and I’ve been so excited at the prospect of being here with you.
Read MoreYve Taylor shares her story of being #FaithfullyLGBT at Open Table Liverpool January 3rd 2021
Read MoreThis is a reflection for the Open table Network online carol service on Sunday 20th December 2020, led by the first Open Table community in Liverpool. Our Team Rector, Revd Dr Miranda Threlfall Holmes, offered this reflection on John 1:1-5.
Read MoreLynn McAllister has written a blog for us on behalf of the Sabeel-Kairos organisation on the United Nations Day for Solidarity with the Palestinian People and the ongoing situation in the Holy Land.
Read MoreThis Psalm was written for our Open Table service for All Saints Day, 1st Nov 2020, by community member Zach Ford
Read MoreAnd there is no limit to the Lord’s memory.
It traces your each atom from end to end of Time,
Every one the more beloved,
Because what they make is you.
Tonight, as we recall our trans siblings who have died in the past year, many in violent circumstances, it is fitting that we celebrate the Eucharist, in the hope that Christ will transform our poor bodies that they may become like his glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he will gather up all things into the orbit of his mercy and love.
Read MoreReflection by Revd Laura Ferguson, Team Vicar, on Matthew 22.15-22
Ultimatums are tricky aren’t they. Just two choices lying before you; the high road or the low road? The wide path or the narrow. Fight or flight? It seems like whether in Jesus’ time or today, there will always be people who try to enforce binaries.
Read MoreEvery year Open Table our LGBTQIA+ worship community celebrates National Coming Out Day in their October Communion service. As part of our celebration we’ll use this wonderful Litany of Coming Out, adapted from Courage to Love: Liturgies for the LGBT Community by Geoffrey Duncan.
Read MoreTHIS MORNING, one of the new Patrons of the Open Table Network, Rachel Mann, led BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship on the theme of ‘Urban Harvest’, and invited Kieran, the Network Co-ordinator to share a short reflection.
Read MoreReflection by Warren Hartley, LGBTQIA+ Ministry Facilitator, on Matthew 18:15-20
‘Let’s challenge the church, call out its sins to our community and to us as individuals. We too are the part of the body of Christ and He is present with us now as we gather.’
Read MoreLouis Johnson’s sermon on An Exiled Church from Sunday 30th August, part of our August series ‘What is Church?’
Read MoreWarren Hartley’s sermon on church as a Listening Community from Sunday 9th August, part of our August series ‘What is Church?’
Read MoreRevd. Mark Waters’ sermon on Embodying Forgiveness from Sunday 2nd August, part of our August series ‘What is Church?’
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