Wrestling with Shifting Faith in a Restless World
Dear nefoos, Millions of people are participating in marches across the US and Canada this weekend. It’s Women’s March 2018. The aim? “The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.” (taken from Women’s March Mission Statement, website, 2018). You all may…
Fluidity is beautiful. I remember the first time I came into contact with this word. In fact, I remember the exact day. I had purchased a copy of a book. “Sexual Fluidity, Understanding Women’s Love and Desire.” I saw in a bookstore in 2010. I cracked it open in a coffee shop, and I dared […]…
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, […]…
