Nebraska Synod ELCA
Event
Join Deacon Ross Murray, the author of The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice, to talk about how to be an effective Christian advocate. With everything happening in our society and world, it can be easy to be overwhelmed. This book study will help you to focus your energy and attention, as well as choose alliances and tactics that are impactful and effective. We will provide some scriptural foundation, some tactics, and some mentalities that will help you, your congregation, and your community be witnesses to God’s love and justice for the whole world.
Ross Murray is a Vice President at the GLAAD Media Institute, which provides activist, spokesperson, and media engagement training and education for LGBTQ and allied community members, the media industry and advocacy organizations desiring to deepen their media impact. Ross uses the best practices perfected by GLAAD to train a new generation of advocates in order to accelerate acceptance for LGBTQ people, as well as other marginalized communities.
Ross is a producer for the “Yass, Jesus!” podcast, a faith and sexuality affirming podcast that believes you don’t have to pick between gay and God. Hosts, Daniel Franzese (Actor, Mean Girls, Looking) and Azariah Southworth (former host, The Remix on TBN) meet each week in this hilarious take on a Sunday service to explore big questions and find out what it means to be a Christ-loving member of the LGBTQ community during these divided times.
Ross is an ordained Deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with a specific calling to advocate for LGBTQ people and to bridge the LGBTQ and faith communities. He is a member of the 2021 OUT100.