Rev. Harry Knox is a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the newly appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC). Most recently, Harry served as Interim Executive Director of Integrity USA, the organization working for full inclusion of LGBT in the life and ministry of the Episcopal Church. He is also a former executive director of Georgia Equality, program director of Freedom to Marry, and was the founding director of the Religion and Faith Program of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Harry was even appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s first Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

This Sunday, April 15, 2012, Katie Ricks will be ordained to the office of teaching elder, becoming Associate Pastor of the Church of Reconciliation, a Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Katie’s call to ministry was loud and clear—to both herself and to her congregation. But for the past 10 years, because of Presbyterian Church rules, Katie had been barred from ordination. Why? Because Katie has been honest with herself, her God and her church that she is lesbian.

Rev. Shanea Leonard is a Teaching Elder in Pittsburgh, PA. She holds a Master of Divinity Degree from the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Bachelor's Degree in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently pastoring a new faith community called Judah Fellowship on the Northside of Pittsburgh.

Today, in the Pentecost spirit of transformation, I am changing how I share my understanding of Scripture with you, in light of new possibilities offered by social media.

Text: Ezekiel 43:1-12
How does the logic of Jesus differ from this logic of the Temple?