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Creating a Same-Gender Blessing, A Covenant of Love
 Wednesday, May 9 Doors 6 PM Program 7-8:30 PM Followed by Snacks Charlotte's Place 107 Greenwich Street btwn Rector & Carlisle St With Bowie Snodgrass Donations accepted online or at event.
Bowie Snodgrass, Executive Director of Faith House Manhattan, will share from her experience as a member of the group that created the new proposed Episcopal Church rite for same-gender blessings. As same-sex marriage and civil union laws pass throughout the country, churches and other religious communities are grappling with their role in blessing LGBT covenants of love. In 2009, the Episcopal Church's General Convention (an 1100-person legislative body of bishops, clergy, and lay deputies) voted to produce resources for same-gender blessings, which will be proposed "for trial use" at this summer's General Convention.
The evening will include a dramatic reading of the liturgy, song, scripture, and ample time for discussion. Whatever your perspective, come experience and engage this topic with your questions, doubts, excitement, and curiosity.
For more information, visit the Episcopal Church's "Same-Gender Blessings Project."
Bowie Snodgrass is Executive Director of Faith House Manhattan, co-founder of Transmission, an emerging church, and was a member of the Task Group that produced a new liturgy for same-gender blessings for the Episcopal Church. She was Web Content Editor of EpiscopalChurch.org from 2004-2007 and before that worked in the Episcopal Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations. She majored in Religious Studies at Vassar College and received her M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is a member of the Congregation of Saint Saviour at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and lives in Harlem with her husband, George Mathew, and one-year-old son, Jacob.
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