[UCC polyam] thing I posted to FB this weekend:

https://bit.ly/UCCpolyresearchpaper

A friend shared this link to a research paper: "Polyamory and Consensual Non-Monogamy in the United Church of Christ: The Next Frontier of a Radically Welcoming, Open and Affirming Denomination"

As someone who is working on this as her next frontier at her own UCC church, I was excited that this paper exists.

It also has some really great quotes:

"I believe that intimacy with another is a sacred act of worship that expands my own capacity for understanding myself and the divine. My experience has been that the more love I risk and give, the more my capacity for loving grows. Of course, it also brings me face to face with my own mortal limits because while love may be as infinite as God, my time is not and so navigating the physical implications of the commitments and covenants I choose to make is also a sacred work." - Grant Helbley, MiD in the Central Pacific

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