Rev Canon Erin's Fierce Fight for Full Church Inclusion

Rev. Canon Erin sits across from me at The Roost Café, her voice carrying both the weight of disappointment and the fire of unwavering hope. She's talking about the new Pope Leo XIV, about broken promises wrapped in progressive packaging, about a church that blesses with one hand while condemning with the other."I'm disappointed," she says with the kind of honesty that cuts through religious platitudes. "These things that I like about him, his compassion for immigrants, his critique of unjust policies, that's where it ends. I did a deep dive, and he hasn't been saying anything else that I love."This is the voice of someone who refuses to settle for crumbs of inclusion disguised as a feast.When Safe Isn't AssumedRev. Canon Erin doesn't have the luxury of assuming church is safe for everyone. With trans nephews, a gay aunt, and gay children of her own, she's intimately familiar with the casualties of conditional love. At All Saints Anglican Church in King City, she's created something radical: a place where LGBTQ+ people can exist without asterisks."Church is not safe for a lot of people," she explains, her voice gaining intensity. "You have to know this. You have to be aware...