This year's theme is ‘Politics In Art’, spotlighting 5 'faces', one L, G, B, T & +. Here is the fifth - an artist who described herself as ‘two people inside one body’.

This year's theme is ‘Politics In Art’, spotlighting 5 'faces', one L, G, B, T & +. Here is the fourth - a trans writer, artist and activist

This year's theme is ‘Politics In Art’, spotlighting 5 'faces', one L, G, B, T & +. Here is the third - a bisexual graffiti artist

This year's theme is ‘Politics In Art’, spotlighting 5 'faces', one L, G, B, T & +. Here is the second - a gay AIDS activist

This year's theme is ‘Politics In Art’, spotlighting 5 'faces', one L, G, B, T & +. Here is the first - a lesbian pioneer.

THIS REFLECTION by Open Table Network Coordinator Kieran Bohan was written for our celebration of LGBT+ History Month which premiered on YouTube on Sunday 30th January 2022.

LAST MONTH, hundreds of clergy signed an open letter to Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss, in response to the Government’s current consultation on proposals to ban conversion therapy, which has been extended until 4th February 2022. Warren Hartley from Open Table Liverpool responds.

THIS IS a thought-provoking and challenging reflection by Andi, who has been involved with our second community in Warrington since its early days in 2015.

OUR FIRST Open Table community in Liverpool hosted its annual carol service this month, with traditional and contemporary readings. This year, it included this reflection from Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town in South Africa, and a passionate advocate for LGBT+ people and those living with HIV. He died on 26th December 2021, but his legacy lives on.

OUR FIRST Open Table community in Liverpool has hosted the carol service for the parish where it meets for 13 years. This year, Beth Powell, one of the leadership team, shared this reflection on what we as LGBTQIA+ Christians can learn from the Christmas story.

THE THEME of the third week of Advent, the beginning of the Church’s year when we prepare to celebrate the coming of Jesus at Christmas, is JOY. This extract from a blog post on QueerTheology.com challenges us to claim our joy as beloved queer children of God.

THIS IS an extract from Pádraig Ó Tuama’s introduction to Advent, the beginning of the Church’s year when we prepare to celebrate the coming of Jesus at Christmas, in an extract from What Were You Arguing About Along The Way - Gospel Reflections for Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter, edited by Pat Bennett from the Spirituality of Conflict project.

ON MONDAY 29th NOVEMBER, Bishop of Liverpool Paul Bayes returned to the first Open Table community in Liverpool so they could give thanks for his support before he retires in Spring 2022. Here is his reflection.

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.

AT THE FIRST Open Table community in Liverpool this month, Revd John Bell, a Patron of the Open Table Network, offered this reflection on the reading from the book of Acts 10: 1-16, in which the apsotle Peter hears God say: ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean’.

YESTERDAY was International Pronouns Day, which has really got me thinking about how to better explain my pronouns to other people, writes OTN Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young.