A CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote* Workshop Series
We invite you to join us for this CLGS Lavender Lunch to learn about the United Church of Christ’s 2024 Love is Louder: Love Your Neighbor OUT LOUD campaign with Rachael Ward, Director of the UCC Office of Public Policy and Advocacy on Capitol Hill in Washington DC.
Love is Louder: Love Your Neighbor OUT LOUD is a campaign faithfully supporting the spiritual, physical, and mental well-being of LGBTQIA+ siblings by equipping faith communities with resources and tools for just action and care.
The campaign features tool kits, advocacy 101 webinars that help equip communities with the tool kit’s wisdom and other pressing topics, a Love is Louder Tshirt that support discretionary funds for Churches/communities working with LGBTQIA+ siblings and on the ground actions throughout the year in different US regions to support growth of the movement.
Rachael Ward (They/Them) is a queer practical theologian who cares deeply about intersectional work by creating space, collaborative humanity and practices of freedom toward transformation. They serve as the Minister and Team Lead of Gender & Sexuality Justice for the National Setting of the United Church of Christ. They are an authorized lay minister for this role through the Penn Central Conference as an active Member in Discernment.
Rachael has founded several movements devoted to transformation of queer bodies such as, Bible Queery, Atlanta LGBTQIA+ History Project, How To Be Human Podcast and more.
They believe in the cyclical nature of life & death and infinite possibilities for transformation within our shared unique imprint of the Imago Dei. Rachael approaches care through the lens of activism, pastoral presence and queer scholarship. They ground their work within ministry, activism, and scholarship through adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.
*The CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote Workshop Series
During the current 2024 US election season, how might we, as LGBTQ people, communities, and LGBTQ-allies, be voices – and votes – of positive change for a nation in such desperate need of justice, hope, love, and compassion?