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As we celebrate Pride Month, we honor the beautiful diversity of love in all its forms. This month invites us to rejoice in happiness, support each other through grief and loss, embrace our differences, continue the work of reconciliation, and embody the inclusive and compassionate values of Jesus.

Happy Pride Month!

Sheneequa Sermon

On June 8, 2025, the LGBTQIA2S+ Ministry offered a luminous and deeply moving Pride Evensong service that will echo in hearts for years to come. With a sanctuary filled with music, prayer, and sacred witness, the gathering honored LGBTQIA2S+ people not only with celebration but with truth-telling and transformation.

At the center of the evening was the powerful sermon from Rev. Isaiah "Shaneequa" Brokenleg, who spoke with fierce tenderness about the sacredness of queer and Two-Spirit identities. "We are the medicine," she proclaimed. “We are not problems to be fixed. We are prophets, bridge-builders, and sacred medicine for a hurting world.” Her words invited all present to reimagine holiness, not as conformity, but as wholeness, as radical embodiment, as truth.

Rev. Brokenleg skillfully wove together threads from Indigenous worldviews, Christian theology, and queer survival stories. Drawing on her Lakota roots, she reminded the congregation that, “When something was out of balance, the community responded not with condemnation but with ceremony.” And so it was with this Evensong—a ceremonial act of rebalancing, of healing, of reclaiming.

One of the most emotionally potent moments came when the entire congregation stood together to read aloud a formal apology for the church’s past harm toward LGBTQIA2S+ people. This communal act of repentance and solidarity resonated like a balm for wounds both named and unspoken. In that moment, the Body of Christ practiced resurrection, not in theory, but in action.

The music, too, carried the Spirit. From the opening canon “Love is Love” to the majestic choral settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, the choir lifted prayers that transcended language. Calvin Hampton’s “Pageant” closed the evening with a sense of forward momentum—a fitting reminder that Pride is not only about remembrance, but about rising.

As Rev. Brokenleg reminded us, “Pride is the radical, Spirit-infused act of showing up in power, in truth, and of course, in love.” On June 8, we did just that. Together. In right-relationship. In sacred ceremony. In Pride.

Read Rev. Brokenleg's full sermon through the link below.

The Rev. Brokenleg Sermon

 

Watch the full service 

 

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A Statement of Apology to the LGBTQIA+ Community

We recognize that the Church has and, in many places, continues to play a role in the persecution, rejection, and exclusion of members of LGBTQIA2S+ community. Too often, the teachings of a loving, liberating, and life-giving God, in whose image we are all created, have been twisted and used as a weapon to degrade, demean, or debase our siblings who identify as LGBTQIA2S+. For our willful ignorance, for our violation of Jesus’s command to love, and for our failure to succor, sustain, and support our LGBTQIA2S+ siblings, we are truly sorry. With sincere repentance, we commit to a new path of justice, healing, and radical inclusion, pledging to love, listen, and learn from our siblings to ensure that all LGBTQIA2S+ people are fully affirmed and welcomed as beloved members of God’s family. 

 

Read Bishop Johnson's full letter through the link below.

A Statement of Apology to the LGBTQIT+ Community

 

 

 

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