“Voices of Witness Africa” Screening Set for May 10
Posted on May 5, 2009
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The film “Voices of Witness Africa” will be shown at St. John’s at 7:30 pm on Sunday May 10. One of the filmmakers, the Rev. Cynthia Black of Kalamazoo, MI, will be there for this premier showing.
As long ago as 1978, the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Communion bishops urged the church to listen to Anglicans who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT). Now a powerful new half-hour documentary film, Voices of Witness Africa, helps Episcopalians keep the church’s commitment to listen.
As we move toward the Episcopal Church’s General Convention this summer, issues involving full inclusion of all the baptized, including LGBT people, will once again be front and center. Much of the U.S. Episcopal Church, like our secular society, has moved toward full inclusion — but this impulse encounters deep resistance from other parts of the Communion where homosexuality is viewed as a foreign, perhaps imperialist, import. VOWA dispels any claim that there are no LGBT Africans — and gives us an opportunity to listen to their hopes and fears. See www.saintjohnsf.org
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