Tag: LGBTQIA+ Christian
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Hospitality and Hostility and Wondering About That
Most of us – people, I’m thinking, human beings – are not good at welcoming and condemning at the same time. That sounds obvious, but it was a hard sentence to come up with. Most of us – people, I’m thinking, human beings – don’t think of ourselves as “condemning.” We more often think of…
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Experiencing Grace
Grace is all around us, all the time; we could experience it more often, if we got in the habit of noticing that. A sermon – text Luke 17:11-19 – from the Corydon Presbyterian Church yesterday. Luke’s story of Jesus healing 10 lepers is probably well known to us from stewardship seasons past. Because…
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Over Explaining
It finally dawned on me that when Romans 1:26-27 is read as “an explanation of same-sex behavior” it fails, because it massively over-predicts the incidence of the relevant dependent variable. Took long enough. Image: “Ältere Frau in der Bibel lesend,” Albert Anker, 1904, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Authority Issues
Most people have “authority issues” of one kind or another. Some people resist any external authority. They fly into “no one tells ME what to do” mode right away. They’ll refuse to do something as soon as someone else says they must, or should, or might just want to, even if they think it’s basically…
Matters of Interpretation 