‘Shower of Stoles’ honoring LGBT People of Faith on Display at Judson Oct. 20

A news release from Judson Church:

The Shower of Stoles, a nationally touring collection of stoles of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) church leaders barred from openly serving, returns to south Minneapolis in October.

Judson Memorial Baptist Church in south Minneapolis is exhibiting part of the collection at a community showing in the church sanctuary on Sunday, Oct. 20 from noon to 2 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

The stoles exhibit is a beautiful collection of stoles belonging to LGBT clergy and other people of faith and represents more than forty denominations and faith traditions from six countries on three continents. The collection includes stoles from clergy who made their contributions anonymously and continue to serve and others from people who had to leave their ministries.

Most of the stoles include cards telling the deeply moving stories of the people who had to leave the ministry because of opposition from their congregations or ecclesiastical hierarchy. Other stoles are simply marked Anonymous.

The Shower of Stoles collection tours the country, presented in local congregations, universities, seminaries and conferences. This is the third time in 15 years that Judson Memorial Baptist Church has exhibited stoles from the collection.

The Stoles exhibit will also be on display before and after the regular Sunday services on October 13th and 20th. Services begin at 9:30 a.m. and last approximately one hour.

The Shower of Stoles Project is a program of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s Institute for Welcoming Resources (www.welcomingresources.org).

Judson Memorial Baptist Church is a more than 100 year old progressive, activist congregation, focused on social justice and serving the community. In 2014 Judson will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its historic church building at 41st Street and Harriet.