{"id":711,"date":"2010-07-22T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T22:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=711"},"modified":"2010-07-22T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T22:34:49","slug":"udis-kessler-blogs-on-lgbt-spirituality-for-tikkun-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/07\/22\/udis-kessler-blogs-on-lgbt-spirituality-for-tikkun-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Udis-Kessler Blogs on LGBT Spirituality for Tikkun Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-720\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"720\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/07\/22\/udis-kessler-blogs-on-lgbt-spirituality-for-tikkun-daily\/amandaudiskessler\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/07\/amandaudiskessler.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSLR-A300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277131153&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;60&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"amandaudiskessler\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Amanda Udis-Kessler&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/07\/amandaudiskessler.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/07\/amandaudiskessler.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/07\/amandaudiskessler.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"Amanda Udis-Kessler\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Udis-Kessler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amanda Udis-Kessler, CC\u2019s director of institutional research, has become a regular LGBT spirituality blogger for the interfaith Tikkun Daily, which aims to provide &#8220;a spiritual progressive perspective on politics, art, religion, and activism.&#8221;\u00a0Tikkun Daily is the multimedia blog site of Tikkun,\u00a0the bimonthly Jewish and interfaith magazine associated with the Network of Spiritual Progressives.<\/p>\n<p>Udis-Kessler\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/tikkundaily\/2010\/06\/30\/same-sex-marriage-it%e2%80%99s-a-spiritual-thing\/\">first blog post<\/a> was on the spirituality of same-sex marriage. More recently, she wrote about Colorado Springs\u2019 20<sup>th<\/sup> annual LGBT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/tikkundaily\/2010\/07\/20\/dayenu-20-years-of-glbt-pride-in-colorado-springs\/\">PrideFest and Pride Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She and her partner, Associate Professor of Biology Phoebe Lostroh, co-wrote a piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/article.php\/july2010_Udis-Kessler\">\u201cThe Hands of the Holy: Re-Envisioning LGBT Welcome in Faith Communities,&#8221;<\/a> in the July-August issue of Tikkun Magazine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Udis-Kessler has published widely on issues of sexuality, religion and social justice, including her 2008 book, \u201cQu<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-style: normal\">eer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">At CC, she chairs the Institutional Review Board, recently co-chaired the Diversity Task Force, and serves on a number of other committees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Udis-Kessler, CC\u2019s director of institutional research, has become a regular LGBT spirituality blogger for the interfaith Tikkun Daily, which aims to provide &#8220;a spiritual progressive perspective on politics, art, religion, and activism.&#8221;\u00a0Tikkun Daily is the multimedia blog site of Tikkun,\u00a0the bimonthly Jewish and interfaith magazine associated with the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Udis-Kessler\u2019s first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/07\/22\/udis-kessler-blogs-on-lgbt-spirituality-for-tikkun-daily\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Udis-Kessler Blogs on LGBT Spirituality for Tikkun Daily&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-kudos","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}