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Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) is a movement & a denomination that is open to all who wish to share & live into God's inclusive and life-changing love.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · Jan 28

We're Seeking You! - Metropolitan Community Churches

YouTube video by Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC)

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 16h

Check out their music via:
Spotify Channel - open.spotify.com/artist/4yVyf...
YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-...

You may also check out their performance at the UMC Minnesota Annual Conference 2025:
youtu.be/1_r6YxliGxA

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 16h

The Many aims their music to be anti-racist, pro-justice, pro-queer, pro-human, and pro-love.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 16h

This is the mission of The Many, a contemporary worship music band that aims to create inclusive, honest songs and liturgies that honor all bodies, side with the least of these, support justice, and are theologically sound.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 16h

Music is powerful. It comforts, challenges, inspires—and always comes from a particular belief system. Worship music needs to be rooted in the belief that God loves us all. That we are enough, and that we all belong.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 16h

Looking for Inclusive Contemporary Worship Music? Introducing "The Many"

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

Her spirit and activism will live on through House of GG, the center she founded.

Thank you for everything, Mama Major. May her legacy inspire us all to continue the fight.

READ MORE: www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

A true pioneer and Stonewall uprising veteran, her life was dedicated to justice. She spent over five decades fighting for Black trans women, prison reform, and HIV/AIDS care, using her own experiences of incarceration to fuel change.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

We are heartbroken to share the news that Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, affectionately known as "Mama Major," has passed away at 78.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

Schedule: October 25, 2025, 11AM ET, via Zoom.

REGISTER NOW: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

MCC is forming a PLH Kinship Group, to offer a safe, affirming, and confidential space for people living with HIV that is built on radical and inclusive love.

If you are PLHIV, you are invited to join this online gathering, which will happen every last Saturday of every month.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

We give thanks for our wonderful church, MCC, may we continue to be a beacon of justice both here in the United States and throughout the world. The judge has promised an answer soon. Regardless, the fight will continue.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

for an end to these horrific deportations of those unlucky enough to be caught in the crosshairs of ICE.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

As we prayed outside of the room, we asked for justice to prevail, for a shield of protection to be placed around all churches that serve immigrants, for those who are under pressure from these policies,

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

We were so impressed by our legal team. They were well prepared to answer everything that the judge threw at them throughout the course of the hearing. We were also proud of MCC for becoming party to a lawsuit that has such implications for us as a church and for the USA at large.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

Rather than trying the merits of the case, this meeting was intended to ask for an injunction to stop enforcement while the larger case winds its way through the courts.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

At issue was whether a change in the policies of ICE (immigration and Customs Enforcement) are a violation of the 1st Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

The new policy lowers the bar for entry in those places from a set of required standards to the “individual discretion and common sense” of agents.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

The complaint centers around the 2025 recension of a decades-old policy that limited immigration enforcement from entering “sensitive spaces” like houses of worship, schools, or hospitals.

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

The et al includes our own Metropolitan Community Church and many other plaintiffs from various denominations around the country.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

We were there to observe and bear witness to a hearing in the case of New England Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, et al. vs Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

My wife, Debbie Krusemark and I spent a recent Tuesday afternoon in a Federal Courtroom in Boston at the request of MCC’s Moderator, Rev. Elder Cecilia Eggleston.

Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 1d

A Day in Court: Metropolitan Community Churches vs. Department of Homeland Security

(Submitted by Rev. Brae Adams)

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 2d

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Against the tide: LGBTQIA+ inclusive churches thrive amid rising conservatism in Brazil — Open Table Network

IN THE FIRST of a new series of blogs highlighting stories from our LGBTQIA+ siblings in other countries, journalist André Aram reports from the largest country in South America and the fifth largest ...

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 2d

Addressing this controversial question, Reverend Luiz Gustavo Silva of MCC Brasil (Igreja da Comunidade Metropolitana) said: 'These religious groups read the Bible selectively, especially the Old Testament, to accuse LGBTQIA+ people of being sinful.'

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Metropolitan Community Churches @mccdenomination.bsky.social · 2d

If traditional churches label homosexuality a sin, how can this dogmatic presentation of the gospel be broken? Is it the result of their misinterpretation of certain passages in the Bible?

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