Word: reconstructionists
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...sexuality. But I do know that there are openly gay Christians, such as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes, and that same-sex marriage ceremonies are performed by Unitarian Universalist churches, some Quaker congregations, and by the Metropolitan Community Church. For gay Jews, some Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish synagogues perform same-sex marriages...
...volunteers--with a healthy representation in their 20s and 30s--and offer religious services organized almost exclusively by e-mail. The groups tend to avoid denominational classification. At Kol haKfar, for instance, some participants use Orthodox prayer books while others follow along using more liberal Reconstructionist texts...
Born into a Reconstructionist Jewish family in White Plains, New York, Matisyahu says he first began to feel a resonance with faith when he traveled to Israel at the age of 16. He began to hone his musical abilities while enrolled in a wilderness program for at-risk teenagers...
...plaintiff couple in the Goodridge case, Gloria Bailey and Linda Davies, is having its wedding aired on ABC’s “Nightline.” The open-mindedness and activism of the UUA, as well as that of other religious organizations, such as the Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish movements and a large number of Church of Christ ministers, is to be greatly commended...
...high summer of the adult Bat Mitzvah. The ritual retrofitting is becoming standard in Judaism's Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist branches. In the Reform movement alone, 600 of some 900 congregations offer the necessary 18-or 24-month adult preparatory courses in Hebrew, ritual and Scripture. Both Reform and Conservative movements offer guides to facilitate the adult rite. Such ceremonies, says Jack Wertheimer, provost at the Conservative arm's Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, have not only "generated the spark of transformation within individuals [but] transformed congregational life...