Sunday, August 21 @ 10 am – “The Virtue of Pride”

In a world where so many loud and hateful religious voices preach transphobia and homophobia, our tradition has an obligation to answer back with our own message–not just of tolerance or even inclusion, but celebration and appreciation of LGBTQ people within our congregations and in the larger world. On the weekend of Madison’s Pride Festival, we celebrate the resilience and creativity of the LGBTQ community in fostering and defending a collective sense of true pride—that deep sense of our own preciousness and worth that we all must find within ourselves and respect within others—and look to the lessons the LGBTQ community can offer us all.

Rev. Kelly Asprooth-Jackson