#142 Presbyterian advocate for the LGBTQIA community Rev. Janet Edwards speaks her truth.

Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards is a Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh, PA for 48 years, who worships at the Community of Reconciliation. She presently serves on the board of Auburn Theological Seminary and is the Moderator of the Anti-Racism Transformation Team of Pittsburgh Presbytery. She is a former Board Member of More Light Presbyterians, a national organization working toward full inclusion of LGBTQIA people within the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 2008 Rev. Edwards was tried and unanimously acquitted by a church court of charges for violating Scripture and the Constitution of the PCUSA by presiding at the wedding of two women. In mid-life she came out as bisexual in her sexual orientation and identity.  In 1995, she received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Duquesne University in Formative Spirituality. Her dissertation was on Three Dynamics in the Formation of Motherly Love. She has two grown sons and three young grandchildren.