‘DREAMING around an Open Table’ was the title of our national gathering in Coventry on 21st October, when 30 members of Open Table communities, and those considering whether Open Table is a ministry they wish to offer in their church, came together to share experience, insight and visions for the future. Here is our Coordinator Kieran’s reflection with which he opened the day:

ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2017, sixteen years after the devastating terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center, an article appeared online about its first recorded victim, which asked: ‘Could Father Mychal Judge Be the First Gay Saint?’ Kieran Bohan from Open Table Liverpool reflects on a talk from his biographer Michael Ford.

THESE were the courageous words of the keynote speaker at this year's annual conference of Quest, which offers pastoral support for LGBT Catholics in the UK. Sister Jeannine Gramick has cared and campaigned for the LGBT+ community in the USA since 1971, two years before Quest was founded here.

ON FRIDAY 7th July, the Church of England General Synod Human Sexuality group celebrated an Open Table Eucharist on the theme of 'Pride & Protest'. Members of the Open Table communities in London and Liverpool led the service in York, which more than 80 people attended.

ON THE EVE of the General Synod debate on marriage and same-sex relationships, Kieran and Warren from Open Table Liverpool attended the launch of OneBodyOneFaith (a merger of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement and Changing Attitude). Here is Kieran’s reflection on these events.

AT A carol service last Sunday, hosted by the first Open Table community in Liverpool, we heard this poem which was moving, inspiring and too good not to share.

Today (Saturday 29th October) is the final day of Asexual Awareness Week, created to celebrate asexual, aromantic, demisexual and grey-sexual pride and also to promote awareness. Amy, Gary and Katherine, members of Open Table at St Bride’s Liverpool, reflect on being asexual and raising awareness this month:

ON SATURDAY 2nd JULY 2016, members of Open Table Liverpool met representatives of the Open Table communities in Warrington, Manchester and North Wales, for an 'Appreciating Open Table' day, to help us discern our core values, how we share our vision, and where we want to go in the next three years.

WHEN I OFFERED to help look after the Open Table community stall at Liverpool Pride this year, I did not expect the experience to be quite so enriching and educational as it turned out to be.

JEN, a member of Open Table Liverpool, writes about walking with a Christian group in a Pride march for the first time. The theme of the Liverpool Pride march was ‘Icons’.

THE FIRST Open Table community in Liverpool marked its eighth birthday last month, with a celebration of what we have achieved in the past year, and looking forward to Liverpool Pride on 30th July with the theme: ‘Liverpool Icons’. Community co-facilitator Kieran offered this reflection.

THIS is an extract from a newly published book, Journeys in Grace and Truth: Revisiting Scripture and Sexuality, which asks: Is it possible to hold a positive view of same-sex relationships while being a biblically rooted Evangelical?

SUCH a sad few days since news of the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub broke on Sunday. The worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11, the worst gun crime in US history, and perhaps the largest murder of LGBT people since the Holocaust. How do we respond in the face of such horror? asks Kieran Bohan.

AT THE FIRST full meeting of its governing body this year, the Church of England’s General Synod met this week to respond to last month’s meeting of the leaders of Anglican churches around the world, and calls for the church to apologise for its treatment of LGBTI Christians. Kieran Bohan reflects on what it means for the Church to be sorry.

THIS WEEK the heads of Anglican churches around the world (known as Primates) will gather in Canterbury to debate the future of their global network, the Anglican Communion, because of deep divisions over church teachings on sexuality. Kieran Bohan from our Liverpool community responds.

AT A carol service last Sunday, hosted by the first Open Table community in Liverpool, we heard this poem which was moving, inspiring and too good not to share.

THE SHARED CONVERSATIONS on Scripture, Mission and Human Sexuality in the Church of England are about half way through, with an uncertain outcome. Warren from Open Table Liverpool, who was invited to take part in the meeting for the north west of England last month, shares his reflection.

IT’S BEEN an extraordinary few weeks since the Bishop of Liverpool’s visit to the first Open Table community in Liverpool. Community co-facilitator Kieran Bohan shares some highlights.

PRIDE MARCHES in cities across the world, including New York and London, are taking place this weekend to commemorate the struggle for equality that began in New York’s Stonewall Inn in the early hours of June 28th 1969. Forty-five years after the first Pride marches, why do we still need them?

A NEW Open Table community is coming to Warrington next month, thanks to Pam Gold, former Co-Convenor of the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians (EFLGC), who has supported the first Open Table community in Liverpool since it began in 2008. Pam explains why she plans to start a new community