Menegoisasikan Identitas Seksual dan Identitas Religius: Pengalaman Perempuan Kristen Berorientasi Homoseksual

Becoming a lesbian as well as a follower of a religion that opposes homosexuality creates an ambivalent and contradictory experience. This study aims to reveal the personal experiences of four homosexually oriented Christian women in Surabaya. All participants are members of Protestant Christian church congregations with different denominations. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using an interpretive phenomenological analysis technique. The results of this study reveal three main themes, namely: living in two worlds, reconciling homosexual identity with religion, and making life decisions. The first theme reflects the dilemma experienced by the subjects when they realized that their choice as a homosexual was a sin in the perspective of their religion but they could not be able to force themselves to be a heterosexual woman. The second theme describes how the subjects tried to compromise between their homosexual orientation and their religious teachings. The last theme contains how choices are made when homosexual identity cannot be compromised with religious identity. This study concludes that most of the participants are trying to become a devout Christian and at the same time be able to engage in the same-sex sexual orientation. Keywords: homosexual identity, religious identity, lesbian, Christian Abstrak Menjadi lesbian sekaligus menjadi pemeluk suatu agama yang menentang homoseksualitas melahirkan pengalaman yang ambivalen dan kontradiktif. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap pengalaman personal empat perempuan Kristen yang berorientasi homoseksual di Surabaya. Seluruh partisipan merupakan bagian dari anggota jemaat gereja Kristen Protestan dengan denominasi yang berbeda. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan wawancara semiterstruktur dan dianalisis dengan teknik analisis fenomenologi interpretatif. Penelitian ini berhasil mengungkap tiga tema utama yaitu: hidup dalam dua dunia, mendamaikan diri, dan mengambil keputusan hidup. Tema pertama mencerminkan dilema yang dialami para subjek ketika menyadari pilihannya sebagai homoseksual adalah dosa namun tidak mampu memaksakan diri untuk menyukai lawan jenis. Tema kedua menggambarkan bagaimana para subjek berupaya mengkompromikan antara orientasi homoseksualitasnya dengan ajaran agamanya. Tema terakhir memuat bagaimana pilihan diambil ketika identitas homoseksual tidak dapat dikompromikan dengan identitas religius. Hasil penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa sebagian besar partisipan berupaya menjadi seorang Kristen yang taat dan sekaligus dapat menjalani orientasi seksual sesama jenis.

Collective Biologies

In Collective Biologies, Emily A. Wentzell uses sexual health research participation as a case study for investigating the use of individual health behaviors to aid groups facing crisis and change. Wentzell analyzes couples' experiences of a longitudinal study of HPV occurrence in men in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She observes how their experiences reflected Mexican cultural understandings of group belonging through categories like family and race. For instance, partners drew on collective rather than individualistic understandings of biology to hope that men's performance of “modern” masculinities, marriage, and healthcare via HPV research would aid groups ranging from church congregations to the Mexican populace. Thus, Wentzell challenges the common regulatory view of medical research participation as an individual pursuit. Instead, she demonstrates that medical research is a daily life arena that people might use for fixing embodied societal problems. By identifying forms of group interconnectedness as “collective biologies,” Wentzell investigates how people can use their own actions to enhance collective health and well-being in ways that neoliberal emphasis on individuality obscures.

PEMAHAMAN HIBAH DAN WASIAT SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF PENGELOLAAN HARTA PERKAWINAN KEPADA PELAYANAN KELUARGA EMAUS

The community service aims to provide an understanding of Grants and Wills as an alternative to the management of marital property." Grants and wills are actually familiar, but in fact many people do not know clearly the mechanism, and the difference between the two things. This makes not a few cases of inheritance disputes submitted to the Court. In general, inheritance disputes contain the uneven distribution of inheritance which contains a grant in it as well as the share of inheritance specified in the will. This counseling is a form of community service and provides understanding to the Pentecostal Church Congregation in Indonesia Ketapang Jakarta. Pentecostal Church in Indonesia, located in Jl KH. Zainul Arifin No. 39 Central Jakarta, which is currently led by Pdt. AH. Mandey is a church that was previously located on Jalan Pintu Besar Selatan. This Community Service is carried out using the Zoom application as a media to the Pentecostal Church Congregations in Indonesia, Ketapang Jakarta, which previously participants of this legal counseling registered via the google form. The material presented at the counseling was an understanding of marital bonds, assets in marriage, grants, elements of grants, terms of grants, and types of wills consisting of general wills, olographic wills and secret wills. The output plans resulting from this community service are in the form of continuation in the scientific meeting of the SENAPENMAS UNTAR 2021 event and publications in the mass media. Pengabdian Masyarakat yang dilakukan bertujuan untuk memberikan pemahaman mengenai Hibah dan Wasiat sebagai alternatif pengelolaan harta perkawinan.” Hibah dan wasiat sudah tidak asing di telinga, namun kenyataanya banyak masyarakat yang belum mengetahui secara jelas mekanisme, dan perbedaan dari kedua hal tersebut. Hal ini membuat tak sedikit kasus-kasus sengketa waris yang diajukan ke Pengadilan. Pada umumnya sengketa waris berisikan tentang ketidakrataan pembagian waris yang terdapat hibah didalamnya maupun bagian waris yang ditentukan dalam surat wasiat. Penyuluhan ini sebagai bentuk pengabdian kepada masyarakat dan memberikan pemahaman kepada Jemaat Gereja Pentakosta di Indonesia Ketapang Jakarta. Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia Jl KH. Zainul Arifin No 39 Jakarta Pusat, yang saat ini di pimpin oleh Pdt. A.H. Mandey merupakan Gereja yang sebelumnya berada di Jalan Pintu Besar Selatan. Pengabdian Masyarakat ini dilakukan dengan media applikasi Zoom kepada Jemaat Gereja Pentakosta di Indonesia Ketapang Jakarta yang pada sebelumnya peserta penyuluhan hukum ini mendaftar melalui tautan google form. Materi yang disampaikan pada penyuluhan tersebut yaitu pemahaman mengenai ikatan Perkawinan, Harta dalam Perkawinan, Penghibahan, unsur-unsur Hibah, syarat Hibah, dan jenis-jenis Wasiat yang terdiri dari wasiat umum, wasiat olografis dan wasiat rahasia. Rencana luaran yang dihasilkan dari pengabdian masyarakat ini berupa prosiding dalam temu ilmiah acara SENAPENMAS UNTAR 2021 dan publikasi di media massa.

Resolusi Konflik Sosial Keagamaan Masyarakat Pulau Raam Kota Sorong, Papua Barat

The harmony of the life of the Butonese and other ethnic groups was disturbed by the presence of Pelangi PAUD, the Pentecostal Church, and the Foreign Congregation on Raam Island. The purpose of this research is to describe the potential for community conflict in Raam Island, Sorong City by uncovering the factors that trigger the potential for conflict and finding alternative harmonization of the Raam Island community. Data were collected qualitatively through semi-structural in-depth interviews, non-participatory observation, and documentation. This research shows that First; The socio-religious conflict began when the management of the Pelangi PAUD Foundation broke a promise to involve Muslim teachers to teach early childhood students. Second; The construction of the Pentecostal Church which was deemed not in accordance with the existing regulations, the atmosphere became increasingly cloudy when the Church congregations were not local residents and were not known. Harmonization solutions can be done by strengthening the organizational functions of the FKUB to be improved both among the people of Raam Island and the government. Socialization of the Joint Regulation of the Minister of Religion and the Minister of Home Affairs concerning the Maintenance of Religious Harmony, Empowerment of Religious Harmony Forums, and the Establishment of Houses of Worship.

Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy

Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso is an account of an extraordinary nineteenth-century American life. A schoolteacher and Methodist preacher in Missouri, in the Civil War Kelso earned fame fighting rebel guerrillas. Seeking personal revenge as well as defending the Union, he vowed to slay twenty-five rebels with his own hand, and when he did so he was elected to Congress. In the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, he was one of the first to call for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. After his term in Congress, personal tragedy drove him west, where he became a freethinking lecturer and author, an atheist, a spiritualist, and, before his death in 1891, an anarchist. John R. Kelso was many things. He was also a strong-willed son, a passionate husband, and a loving and grieving father. The Civil War remained central to his life, challenging his notions of manhood and honor, his ideals of liberty and equality, and his beliefs about politics, religion, morality, and human nature. Throughout his life, too, he fought private wars—not only against former friends and alienated family members, rebellious students and disaffected church congregations, political opponents and religious critics, but also against the warring impulses in his own complex character. His life story, moreover, offers a unique vantage upon dimensions of nineteenth-century American culture that are usually treated separately: religious revivalism and political anarchism; sex, divorce, and Civil War battles; freethinking and the Wild West.

Rancang Bangun Smart Church Broadcasting Sebagai Upaya Penguatan Sarana Prasarana Ibadah di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

The Covid-19 outbreak in Indonesia has changed the conventional worship procedures. Health protocols by the Government of Indonesia have Changed the worship of Church congregations from face to face become interface to interface through online worship. However, problems arise when Church administrators have little knowlege about the application of computer applications to Church services. This paper will explain the design of online-based worship using a smart broadcasting design using a simple V8 live soundcard, 16 channel audio mixer, OBS Studio 26.0.2, Computers, Church music equipment, handycam and social media channels. The results of this study are in the form of designing a Church worship system by utilizing the limited budget for purchasing professional broadcast equipment, but being able to digitize analog equipment owned by the Church. Futhermore, this study resulted in an equation of the application of Smart Church Broadcasting (SCB) using Fuzzy Tsukamoto.

Working against and with the State

A handful of Canadian church congregations provide sanctuary to failed asylum seekers. Many also participate in resettling refugees through a government program called private sponsorship. Both sanctuary and sponsorship arise as specific modes of hospitality in response to practices of exclusion and inclusion under national migration regimes. Sanctuary engages oppositional politics, whereby providers confront and challenge state authority to exclude. Refugee sponsorship embodies a form of collaborative politics, in which sponsorship groups partner with government in settlement and integration. I demonstrate how the state’s perspective on asylum versus resettlement structures the relationship between citizen and state and between citizen and refugee. I also reveal that there is more collaboration in sanctuary and resistance in sponsorship than might be supposed.

IMPACT OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP ON CHURCH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

In the application of servant leadership, the leader prioritizes his thoughts for others with full responsibility and love. The Servant-leader serves others aiming to meet the needs of his followers, such as in the church, a servant leader meets the spiritual needs of the congregation. Therefore, this study uses a method of literature research that aims to know the influence of servant leadership on the growth and development of the church. Growth and development, i.e. every day the congregation is always in the shade and prioritizes the hours of prayer and reading the word of God every day, participate in the ministry, willing to forgive and willingly sacrifice and care for others, have a true knowledge of God, give the best for God, have a true knowledge of God, always follow the events of worship in the church, and maintain a good relationship among the congregation. Thus the application of servant leadership shows that the development and spiritual growth of each congregation is getting stronger and more sensitive to God and fellow church congregations.

Kualifikasi Pemimpin Jemaat Menurut 1 Timotius 3:1-7 bagi Gembala Sidang GPdI Wilayah Keerom Timur

Paul has laid out clear qualifications regarding the things a church leader should have. Paul believes that the quality of church leaders who are developed seriously and responsibly in a person is something important and becomes a solid foundation for church leadership. The need for qualified church leaders is also felt to be very important for the Pentecostal Church in Indonesia in the East Keerom region, Papua. Therefore, a study is needed to determine the qualifications of church leaders according to 1 Timothy 3: 1-7. The method used in this research is qualitative with a descriptive analysis approach. The results of this study found that the pastors of the Pentecostal Church congregations in Indonesia in the East Keerom region, Papua have a good understanding of personality qualifications, qualifications for life in society, qualifications for spiritual life and ministry, but still do not understand well about life qualifications. in the middle of the family for a church leader. AbstrakPaulus meletakkan kualifikasi yang jelas dan tegas mengenai hal-hal yang perlu dimiliki oleh seorang pemimpin jemaat. Paulus percaya bahwa kualitas pemimpin jemaat yang dibangun dengan serius dan bertanggung jawab dalam diri seseorang merupakan sesuatu yang penting dan menjadi pondasi kokoh bagi kepemimpinan gereja. Kebutuhan untuk pemimpin jemaat yang berkualitas dirasakan pula sebagai hal yang sangat penting bagi Gereja Pentakosta di Indonesia yang ada di wilayah Keerom Timur, Papua. Oleh sebab itu diperlukan kajian untuk mengetahui kualifikasi pemimpin jemaat menurut 1 Timotius 3:1-7. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan analisis deskriptif. Hasil dari penelitian ini didapati para gembala sidang Gereja Pentakosta di Indonesia yang ada di wilayah Keerom Timur, Papua memiliki pemahaman yang baik mengenai kualifikasi kepribadian, kualifikasi kehidupan di tengah masyarakat, serta kualifi-kasi kehidupan rohani dan pelayanan, namun masih belum memahami dengan baik mengenai kualifikasi kehidupan di tengah keluarga bagi seorang pemimpin jemaat.

Speaking Back: Reading a Christian Denomination’s Vision for Diversity through the Eyes of its Children and Congregations

This article analyzes the United Church of Canada’s vision for becoming intercultural through data generated by qualitative research into the theological meaning-making of children within United Church congregations. The author provides an overview of the broader research project through which this data was generated and background information about Canadian multiculturalism and the United Church’s response to the challenges of multiculturalism, particularly its 2006 document, ‘A Transformative Vision for the United Church of Canada.’ The author presents three points of critique of this document that come into focus when analyzed through the lens of children within United Church congregations. These points include the important step of intentionally listening to voices on the margins, the document’s neglect of individuals and contexts that hold hybrid cultural identities, and its tendency to overlook congregations that are intercultural.