Wrestling with Shifting Faith in a Restless World
I offered a didactic on ‘LGBTQ+ Health in Spiritual Care’ during my recent CPE Unit. Do you know what I discovered? There were hardly any credible pastoral care/spiritual care resources for LGBTQ+ people. I wasn’t surprised. Saddened, but not surprised. As I sifted through what little I could, I began to realize once again…
“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” -Thomas Merton “What…
No one wants to be tolerated. That’s right. You heard me. When was the last time you felt free and accepted by someone else because they gently whispered in your ear: “I tolerate you”? Really? I don’t know about you, but when someone tolerates me I feel like they are simply putting up with…
There is a time when civility masks our judgments and preconceived notions about others. There is a time when politeness serves our smug condescension, believing that we really are better than others. There is a time when cordial manners become the slimmest of veneers against our harsh, unmitigated condemnations towards our neighbours. There is a…
One of the points proponents of same-sex marriage in the church often make is that the Bible’s trajectory is toward greater, not lesser, inclusiveness. Gentiles, women, eunuchs, “sinners” of various stripes, etc.—all these are, by the time we arrive at the end of the New Testament, clearly at the heart of the kingdom of God, […]…
God of ceaseless revelation, You came out to Create; Said, “You are made in my image, male, female, or otherwise, for I am all genders.” You made humans to be in relationship with each other, naked and unashamed. But we shut you up. We said “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” and we […] via…
Emily Joy, spoken word poet and Moody Bible Institute graduate, has released a powerful work that I believe everyone needs to watch. It’s hard enough to be an LGBTQ+ person in our world; it’s hard enough to be a straight ally, friend or family member; it’s hard enough being a teacher or social worker and…
