by Patrik Olterman | Dec 31, 2015 | Church, MCC
This year has been a fantastic year, a year of change, a year of honesty and integrity, a year of new directions. But all of these thing are in the past what is exciting about this new years is what is coming! As I was talking to my beloved last night I realised that...
by Patrik Olterman | Dec 20, 2015 | Life is my religion, MCC, Sacred Sexuality, Theological reflection
It is that time of year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Or at least that is the excuse we have to go all nuts with lights, chocolate, food and presents. In many ways Christmas has become the holiday of commercialism … which in one way is fitting as money...
by Patrik Olterman | Dec 14, 2015 | ISTA, LGBTQ, Life is my religion, Love, MCC, Sex
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 (NRSV) It is a pertinent question, why did god give us freedom? Why where we burdened with choice? Hindsight being 20/20 it seems that it was a...
by Patrik Olterman | Dec 10, 2015 | Christian life, Church, Life is my religion, MCC
This is the teaching shared at the first MCC heart gathering in Malmö on the 6th of December 2015. The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international Protestant Christian...
by Patrik Olterman | Nov 3, 2015 | MCC
After years of people telling us week in and week out, and after long contemplation, and after much soul searching, prayer, conversation and just a little bit of divine intervention we have decided to do it! It was simply a coincidence that we ran into an old friend...