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| Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley |
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| Rev. Dr. Robert E. Goss Rev. Dr. Robert E. "Bob" Goss is Pastor of MCC in the Valley. He was on staff of MCC Greater St. Louis for nine years as part time theologian/clergy. Goss transferred as clergy into MCC from the Roman Catholic Church where he was ordained as a Jesuit priest. He worked in Mother Theresa's House of the Dying Destitute (Calcutta, India). Goss received his Th.D. in Comparative Religion from Harvard University, specializing in Indo- Tibetan Buddhism and Christian Theology. Rev. Goss is the author of Jesus ACTED UP: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto (1993) and Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus ACTED UP (2002) (a Lambda Literary Finalist for Spirituality). He is co-author of Dead, But Not Lost: Grief Narratives in Religious Traditions (2005). Goss is co-editor of A Rainbow of Diversities (1996), Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship (1997), Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible (2002), and Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence (2005). Goss is co-editor of The Queer Bible Commentary, a translesbigay commentary on all the books of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, published in the fall of 2006. Goss served as co-chair of the Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion. Goss taught courses in Religious Studies at the university level for 10 years, winning the 2000 Templeton Course Prize in Religion & Science. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry of the Pacific School of Religion. Rev. Goss has been involved in a number of peace and justice movements. |
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