From The Wall Street Journal-The Rev. Emily Scott was a high-school student in the mid-1990s when she decided to make her faith her career.
A gay couple exchanged vows in her family’s Seattle church, even though same-sex unions hadn’t yet been officially sanctioned by the Episcopal Church.
“That was a key moment for me in understanding what church was about,” Ms. Scott said. “We would always privilege love and relationship and what’s right over rules and regulations.”
In her own way, Ms. Scott, 35 years old, is making a radical push at St. Lydia’s, her storefront church in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Her “dinner church” service weaves song, scripture and prayer with a simple homemade supper, drawing a diverse set of worshipers—young and old, gay and straight, Quaker and Evangelical.
The service, held in a loft-like space without a cross or altar, could be mistaken for a hip social club, but the worship is deeply rooted in Christian traditions of humble table fellowship.
More here-
http://www.wsj.com/articles/pastor-forges-a-new-path-in-brooklyn-1450436400
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