Published on Crosstalk.
“There is power in a name,” began Rev. Mark Whittall’s homily at St. Albans on Sunday Sept. 27.
All eyes were glued to the front from a congregation made up of friends, family and community members, some who had never been to church, others regular parishioners. Regardless of background, there was a buzzing energy in hearing original liturgy on Re-Naming a Transgender parishioner.
It was a re-naming service for Eliot Waddingham, a non-binary transgender St. Albans parishioner who goes by the pronoun ‘they’.
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