For Justice in Christ

It is with great sadness and much prayer and discernment, that my Wife, with My Full Support, has formally placed charges of gender discrimination before the Consistory of our church against senior staff.
We have prayed about this, and have determined that once said staff decided to target my wife in her call as Minister of Word and Sacrament, that effectively she was already gone, it was just a matter of time.

My wife has endured gender discrimination since she was a young girl growing up in a fundamentalist denomination. She has fought on the front lines of Women's Rights in the church.
For years we had been in churches that upheld a Woman's right as Minister of Word and Sacrament... until this last call.

It is painful when a call ends, but you find Christ calling you to a new beginning. For the time being our call is to stand up and be counted. To sit in the front of the bus.
We have determined that it is our right, and responsibility as Christians, to demand a full investigation by denominational authorities of the gender discrimination and abuse .

We ask you to hold us in your prayers as we journey down this troubled road.

May God be with us All
Our Wives as the Minister
The Husbands as we Support
Our Children as they Suffer the Witness of Our Pain

And may the Holy Spirit rest on those who must make decisions arising from this situation.

Amen