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Pick Your Battles

Posted on: 03/25/2011 15:40

Mandate magazine coverWhen Cindy Bourgeois was growing up as a boy in Winnipeg, she never dreamed she’d play a prophetic role in The United Church of Canada. But she’s discovered that being the first known transgender minister the church ordained carries risks.
 
We’re publishing Bourgeois’ story in the current issue of Mandate because she’s one of the United Church’s prophetic leaders willing to take those risks.
 
Who do you know who is a prophetic leader? What kinds of risks has he or she taken that inspire you?
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Living the Welcome in the Observer

Posted on: 03/04/2011 13:08

I would like to use this opportunity to thank the Observer and freelance writer Larke Turnbull for not only the article on Cindy Bourgeois, but the choice of language and thus a true and meaningful understanding of the transgendered.

 

What wording has me so overjoyed?

 

In the lead in, in large letters it reads "Rev. Cindy Bourgeois is the first known transgender person to be ordained in the United Church."

 

"Known".

 

In one word, it embraced.

 

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