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Celebrating with Pride Eucharist 2010,
Parade draws scores to Market St.
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 Episcopalians
from across the Bay Area celebrated Pride this year by telling stories,
hearing talks, watching movies, raising the Rainbow flag high atop their
steeple and preaching about the future of Oasis Californian, our
diocesan LGBT ministry. Our celebration culminated as more than 100
people joined in this year's open air Pride Eucharist on Beale Street.
Co-sponsored by the
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of
Lutherans Concerned North America
the Eucharist included
as it readings a selection from Harvey Milk's "Hope Speech" with St.
Paul's riff on love (1 Corinthians
13:1-13) and as
our Gospel Mark 12:28-34. More
photos here. Download
worship
booklet here (PDF file).
 The Rt.
Rev Marc Andrus, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, presided
at the Eucharist, the Rt. Rev. Mark Holmerud, Bishop of the Sierra
Pacific Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America preached and
the Rev. Nancy Feniuk Nelson, Bishop’s Associate of the Sierra
Pacific Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
assisted. Oasis President
and recently ordained Deacon the Rev. Tom Jackson joined with Dan
Burner to assist at the altar.
During the liturgy, we heard greetings from
Bishop Naudal Alves Gomes of our
companion diocese, the Diocese of Curitiba. "It is with pride that we
stand united with you in steadfast solidarity, for the equality and
liberation of every human being; of every nationality, ethnicity, race,
religion, gender, and sexual orientation, Bishop Gomes wrote. His letter
was read by Michael Tedrich, our diocese's missioner in Curitiba (full
text). Joyce Parry Moore brought greetings from the Women's
Caucus and Paul Riofski greeted us on behalf of Dignity's San Francisco
Chapter.
After Eucharist, about 50 people marched the storied
pride parade route down Market to 8th Street. Special thanks go to
Travis Kennedy, George
Carlson, Dan Burner, Andrew Aldrich,
Trish Grima for serving as parade
monitors and to Alex Han for helping with preparations and clean up.
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 Developing
A Faith Response to Approaching Federal Prop 8 Court Decision
Within the next 30 days (and probably sooner rather than later) federal
Judge Vaughn Walker is expected to rule whether Prop 8 violates the US
Constitution. Oasis is working with the Bay Area Coalition of
Welcoming Congregations to help Bay Area faith leaders
respond to Judge Walker’s ruling through a prayer service. For an e-mail
alert on this service and related Prop 8 faith-based organizing efforts,
please e-mail
endProp8@oasisca.org.
Photo:
Bay Area faith leaders about to be arrested in an act of non-violent
protest against the California State Supreme Court decision
upholding Prop 8. At the center of this cluster os soon-to-be arrested
religious leaders are the Rev. Jeff Brett, Associate Pastor, MCC in San
Francisco; Brother Karekin Yarian, BSG; Thomas Jackson, President of
Oasis California and the Rev. Roland Stringfellow, Coordinator, Bay Area
Coalition of Welcoming Congregations at PSR.
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Cabaret! A Fundraiser for San Francisco Night Ministry!
Join us for an evening of inspired music, divine drink
and heavenly food, all for a great cause! Entertainers include Galilea,
John Weber, Trauma Flinstone, Sister Phyliss Withe-Litaday, Bebe
Sweetbriar,Chica, Erika Von Volkyrie and many more surprises!
Tickets $35. Check
sfnightministry.org for more information.
See you there!
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Rev. Canon Dr. Jane Alison Shaw is Eighth Dean of Grace Cathedral
A scholar whose interests include the Enlightenment,
modern religious history, and issues in gender and sexuality has
been named as the eight dean of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.
Nominated by the Rt. Rev. Marc
Handley
Andrus,
the
Rev. Canon Dr. Jane Alison Shaw
was appointed by by unanimous roll call vote of Grace Cathedral’s
Board of Trustees. She has served as
consultant to the Lesbian
and Gay Christian Movement.
Jane Shaw’s spiritual depth, commitment to the Gospel,
theological vision and leadership skills make her uniquely qualified to
help guide Grace Cathedral into its second century,” said the Rt. Rev.
Marc Handley Andrus, Bishop of California.
\] Dr. Shaw joins Grace Cathedral from the University of Oxford in
England where she has served as the Dean of Divinity and a Fellow of New
College, Oxford. In addition, she has taught history and theology at the
university.Serving with distinction as a priest, academic theologian and
historian, Dr. Shaw brings powerful preaching and
deep expertise in liturgy, management and administration, program
development, teaching, community building and fundraising.
The Episcopal Cafe
reports:
In 2007, Shaw wrote an op-ed for The
Guardian saying that the fact of our baptisms precludes the need for
an Anglican Covenant.
There is much talk at present in the Anglican
communion of a new covenant to bind us together. This is seen as a
solution to our problems, to our disagreements about homosexuality.
Some argue that we just need to agree to certain new "essentials".
But many of us hesitate to embrace such a covenant because we
already have a covenant: our baptismal covenant. That is how we are
joined together and it is based on the long-established
"essentials": the historic creeds. From the very earliest days of
Christianity, baptism marked that moment when men and women assented
to the Christian essentials - one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit -
and came into relationship with those who shared this belief in the
creator God, the risen Christ and the Spirit who sustains us daily.
Baptism is therefore the foundation of our identity as Christians.
With Paul's words to the Galatians in our memories, we hesitate to
assent to a covenant in which there will be a new distinction
between lay and ordained by handing over decision-making power to
the Anglican primates. Having made our assent to the historic
creeds, we hesitate to create new "essentials" about an issue -
homosexuality - that may be purely of this moment.
Dr. Shaw is known internationally for her exceptional
talents in the communication of Christianity in the public sphere. In
Great Britain, she has been successful in bridging differences in
governance and policies pertaining to inclusion, and has served as
Theological Consultant to the Church of England House of Bishops. Dr.
Shaw is Canon Theologian at Salisbury Cathedral and an honorary canon of
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Dr. Shaw's appointment is the result of a global search by the Dean
Search Committee, a group of 17 cathedral and diocesan thought leaders,
led by chair Valerie Crane Dorfman and co-chair Tobias Keller. Crane
Dorfman and Keller are cathedral trustees and congregation members. "The
thorough, 18-month discernment process, which asked, `Who will be our
next dean?' led us to meet many talented candidates and carefully
discern the goals and vision of Grace Cathedral," said Greg Scott, chair
of the cathedral's Board of Trustees. "Through a period of careful
discernment, we found that Jane Shaw was the right fit for us."
Residing in the U.S. isn't entirely new for Dr. Shaw. Since the late
1980s, she has studied or held academic positions at several United
States institutions of higher education. She earned a Master's of
Divinity from Harvard Divinity School in 1988 and a Ph.D. in History
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. In 2006, she was
awarded an honorary doctorate from Episcopal Divinity School. In the
1990s, she taught at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the
Episcopal seminary in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Shaw has been a Visiting
Professor at U.C. Berkeley, Emory University, and Florida Atlantic
University. This appointment
comes a century after the installation of the Grace Cathedral's first
dean, the Very Rev. James Wilmer Gresham, who served the cathedral for
almost three decades, from 1910 to 1939.
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Sacred Cocktails:
Monday @ 7:30 P.M.
Lookout Bar, 16th & Market, SF CA
Finding church a bit un-welcoming these days? Come hang out and discuss
religion and spirituality from an affirmative, pro-LGBTQ perspective.
We're Christian and we're open to all. Each week features a guest
facilitator, followed by time to hang out and chat about religion,
spirituality, and sexuality.
We're starting a new conversation -- come join
us!
A Ministry sponsored by St. Aidan's Episcopal Church and the San Francisco
Night Ministry.
More
info here.
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 What happened at Lambeth in 2008?
If you
want to know what happened in Canterbury during the Lambeth Conference,
you can:
The Oasis Witnesses @ Lambeth
came from
across America and around the world.
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