About a year ago, after my giving a talk on how the Bible doesn’t condemn, but actually affirms, same-sex love, a woman with a gay brother, raised in a Christian family, asked me to write out “talking points” on the subject of the consistency between
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10) Courage is tenacity in the face
First Reading: Psalm 94 Gospel Reading: Luke 4:18-19 Inclusive Love: Its time has come Given the increasingly strident professing Christian voices condemning same-sex relationships, and LGBT people in general, it is certainly timely and appropriate to honor those who are sinfully demonized and, in one
… the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2 Corinthians 3:6) A rabbi and a priest are having a conversation. The priest says to the rabbi, “You ought to have ham. You’ll like it.” The rabbi says to the priest, “You ought to have
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom… (2 Timothy 4:18) Jesus said that His kingdom was not of this world! (John 18:36) His disciples were to have eternity in mind, and not be bound
As we stand before this portion of the far too vast AIDS Quilt, we acknowledge that we are standing on holy ground! We see this quilt as memorializing family, friends and loved ones who died much too soon; taken away from us far earlier than
There is nothing in Scripture that prohibits full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, and ordaining their unions as sacraments in the Church. Since the Bible is used to justify homophobia, I want to deal with this issue from a biblical perspective, fully recognizing, as with the
Readings: 2 Timothy 1:7, Matthew 25:31-46 There is a story told of a young man in a cabin who prays to God and asks God what He wants him to do with his life. God tells him to look at the massive rock that is in
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
These things also belong to the wise, It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. (Proverbs 24:23) If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect