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Category Archives: Celebrating Diversity
Time To Take A Hard Look At Your Church
Is your church egalitarian? If not, why not. It’s 2013. Don’t you think your church has had enough time to be egalitarian? If it’s not egalitarian, what makes you think it will be? Do you trust only male voices to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Charlotte North Carolina, Christianity, church, church polity, discrimination, egalitarian, emergent church, gender, gospel, Jesus, LGBT equality, LGBT spirituality, Liberal, liberal Christianity, ministry, permission giving church, poor people, rethinking church, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, Wedgewood Church, women in the church
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Tradition, (living) Scripture, and a Community of the Spirit
In his book The Living Text of the Gospels D.C. Parker writes: ”Scripture is tradition.” (p. 207) “What is above all to be emphasized is that any study must start with the fact that [what Christians have] is a manuscript … Continue reading →
Posted in Bible/Theology, Book Reviews/Recommendations, Celebrating Diversity, Church History, Critique of Fundamentalists/Evangelicals
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Tagged authoritative text, Bible manuscripts, Biblical authority, biblical interpretation, church, Community of the Spirit, corruption of biblical texts, D. C. Parker, four gospels, gospels, manuscript tradition, Reformation, Scripture, Spirit, textual criticism, The living text of the Gospels, tradition
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I'm Now A Republican: Come Join Me In The Elephant Herd
It’s too late. That’s what Carole King sang, and in this case, she is right. It’s too late for me to go back to being a liberal independent. I’m signing up to be a liberal Republican. Yes, I am. I … Continue reading →
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Tagged abandoned, abandonment, Abraham Lincoln, argumentative, being needed, Billy Graham, Billy Graham and US presidents, breath out, breathe in, Carole King, Charlotte NC, church, civil politics, conversation, Cripple Creek, dancing, deep breathing, Democrats, elephant herd, elephants, ethics, George Will, getting in a word edgewise, grandfather, heaven on earth, independent, independent party, it's too late, Jesus, jitterbug, Karl Rove, Kingdom of God, Liberal, liberal independent, liberal Rebublican, libertarian, Log cabin Republican, Lord's prayers, marriage, Mike Baniser, narcissism, narcissistic, Obama, oppositional disorder, pain, politics, prejudice, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin in Charlotte, the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, theological, theology, Wedgewood Baptist Church, Wedgewoodian, White House, William Buckley, yoga
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Some/Many "Homophobes" Are Not Homophobic (Don't mean to disappoint the liberals, but it's true)
There are some damm crazy Christians/homophobes in this world. Amen! Seriously crazy. They make me extremely scared, particularly if they carry guns. Now, being trained to do psychotherapy I’m very hesitant to call anybody crazy. “Crazy” can be in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Bible/Theology, Celebrating Diversity, Critique of Fundamentalists/Evangelicals, Politics/Current Events, Sex/Gender/GBLTI
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Tagged Bible, Chris Ayers, Christian ethics, church, crazy, gender identity, hegemonic, homoerotic narratives in the Bible, homophobes, homosexuality, Leviticus, psychotherapy, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, sexual orientation, The Sex Education of a Baptist Minister, theological method, Walter Brueggemann
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The Church Would Mess Up A Wet Dream (Part 2)
The Church would mess up a wet dream, which is another way of saying, albeit a sort of get your attention way to say it – the Church can mess things up in a New York second. The Church can take … Continue reading →
Posted in Bible/Theology, Celebrating Diversity, Church History, Critique of Fundamentalists/Evangelicals, People I've Known, Re-thinking and Re-doing church, Sex/Gender/GBLTI
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Tagged anorexia, apostle Paul, asceticism, Asceticism and the Moral Good, castration, Christian ethics, church committee meetings, Church History, church polity, churchianity, doxology, Elizabeth Clark, Encraites, gay, Gillian Clark, GLBT, homosexual, intercourse, J. Giles Milhaven, Jerome, Kingdom of God, lust, marriage, oppositional disorder, Origen, prayer and sex, prayers, re-thinking church, Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity, sermons, sex, sexual orientation, sexuality, Steeples, wet dreams, Women and Asceticism in Late Antiquity, worship hind legs off of Jesus
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Critiquing the Modern Church Using a Gnostic Perspective
Gnostics critiqued the early church in ways that, sadly, still apply to the modern church. Elaine Pagels in her book, The Gnostic Gospels, writes: The Tripartite Tractate, written by a follower of Valentinus, contrasts those who are gnostics, children of … Continue reading →
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Tagged authority in the church, bishops, business model of church, Christianity, church buildings, Church hierarchy, church models, church polity, congregationalism, critique of church, critique of modern church, ecclesiology, edifice complex, Elaine Pagels, emerging church, equality, feminism, gnosticism, Irenaeus, Jesus, models of church, power in the church, sexism, The Gnostic Gospels, use of space, Valentinus
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Theology and Intersexed Horses
Martha Maxine The New York Times this past Friday included a story about Martha Maxine, a horse that was racking up some victories. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/sports/19racing.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=intersex&st=cse In a mandatory postrace test for steroids Martha Maxine had an elevated level of testosterone. Further … Continue reading →
Transgendered Friends (Father, forgive me, for I have lied.)
(Transgendered people from Baltimore, MD., obtained through Google search.) All the gay marriage talk going on in our country reveals an ignorance about reality. The debate centers around those who believe heterosexual marriage is the only legitimate marriage (some would say God ordained) … Continue reading →
Scary, Violent Christians (dead sure of their beliefs)
“[I]n the century opened by the Peace of the Church, more Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.” Ramsay MacMullen, Christianity & Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth … Continue reading →
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Tagged church, Church History, Constantine, Diversity, early church, persecution, Ramsay MacMullen, violence
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I Prefer Jews: The Seventy Faces of Torah
Recently I ordered several books by Jewish authors, including: Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, edited by Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, and David Shneer Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its … Continue reading →