ON SATURDAY 6th November, Revd Rose Hill, Vicar of Pontyclun in the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff, attended an Open Table Eucharist at St Deiniol’s Church, Hawarden. Rose shares her reflections of what was a deeply moving service.

TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE (TDoR) is an annual observance on 20th November in memory of the trans people who lost their lives through acts of anti-trans violence in the past year. Here our Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young shares a reflection for this year.

LAST MONTH the UK government published proposals for ‘ending the coercive and abhorrent practice of conversion therapy’, which attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, ‘while also protecting the vital values that underpin our democratic society, such as freedom of speech, freedom of belief and privacy.’ OTN trustee Augustine Tanner-Ihm invites us to respond.

ON SATURDAY 6th November 2021, around 50 people gathered from across Wales and England to celebrate five years of the LGBTQIA+ Chaplaincy in St Asaph Diocese - the first of its kind in the UK, and six years since first Open Table community in North Wales, which came under the care of the Chaplaincy in January 2017. OTN Patron Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, offered this reflection:

AT OPEN TABLE LIVERPOOL last month, visitors from churches preparing to host an Open Table community came to hear OTN Patron John Bell. Revd Chris Dowd, who came with a group from Birmingham, reflects on his first Open Table experience.