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You know that what helped and guided you in the old country no longer works, but what else do you have to go by? “I found new ways to think about the clobber passages and reset the lens through which I see my relationship with God.” This doesn’t mean he gives scripture any less authority than before.
Still, trust is what is essential.
You know the ways of the old country, its joys and pains, its happy and sad moments. It’s an exhaustion that you can’t really run away from.” The answer for him has been “finding a profound movement of God in that exhaustion and in that work,” though he acknowledges this approach might not work for everyone.
You don’t talk about any other sin in that way. A renowned Catholic theologian and Yale Divinity School professor in the 1970s, he suffered from “and” rather than “or.” He trusted God to lead his life and had severe anxiety.
Still, you are very much at home, although not truly at peace, in the old country. For Ludwig, “Being queer and being religious can be very exhausting, mostly because you have to do a lot of work … And at times you can’t escape that work.
You have spent most of your days there. However, as the news spread that there was a church welcoming queer people and worshipping in the evangelical style (think: electric guitar, maybe a gospel choir, and always lots of hands in the air), the congregation’s membership started growing.
Whether or not a church is affirming often boils down to their interpretation of the “clobber passages” — the parts of the Bible that mention same-gender sex.
The son of an evangelical pastor, Timothy spent his teen years watching his father hold church services in his family’s backyard. The new country is where you are called to go, and the only way to go there is naked and vulnerable.
It seems that you keep crossing and recrossing the border. And hateful action, I think, is unbiblical.”
As she deconstructs “Love the sinner, hate the sin,” Rev.
Peek thinks about the “fruits of the vine” mentioned in the Gospel of John. As in the case of his father’s church, interpretations of these passages are the kind of thing that divide previously tight-knit congregations. “I think when we look at the churches that say that homosexuality’s a sin, the fruits I see of that in my community are deep challenges with mental health.” For Rev.
Peek, the fruits of non-affirming theologies “are self-evident, are sinful, and are harming God’s children.”
And/Or?
Emil Beckford ’19+1 has a soothing, audiobook-type voice and the unique ability to really listen to someone when they talk to him. Normally, their meetings are low-key get-togethers in members’ common rooms, but this time, the group wanted to publicly address the “hunger to know more about faith and sexuality” around campus, according to Ichthys member, Jessica Wang ’23.
You don’t talk about pride or lust or greed or other things – you don’t attribute them to someone’s identity in that way.” The language in the phrase is worth noticing, too. I had felt called, drawn, passionate. :)
This offering is part of the Modern Mystics School. Had it not been for the tenderness of Henri Nouwen, my spiritual director, and a few key friends,
I wonder if I would have made it.
So you can understand why I am so passionate about the mystics - including Henri Nouwen.
To your dismay, you discover that the old country has lost its charm. As a result, he worried scripture contained too many anti-queer statements for him to live sinlessly with his identity. He wrote to himself daily, what he called a “spiritual imperative.”
Before I knew how to put words to my crisis, Nouwen unveiled his own anguish–and his glimpses of hope.
As I thrashed and reeled in the chaos of my illness and resurfacing trauma and new life trajectory, Nouwen invited me to tenderness.
Maybe this place isn’t so bad.