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SOULS KNIT TOGETHER
Justin Taylor points to an excerpt from an article by Michael A. G. Haykin, the Patristics scholar, on biblical images for friendship: The Bible uses two consistent images in its representation of friendship. The first is that of the knitting of souls together. Deuteronomy provides the earliest mention in this regard when it speaks of aDANIEL QUINAN
Intrinsic Evil and Disorder: How To Misunderstand the Catholic Catechism. Posted by Daniel Quinan. 4. “Homosexuality is intrinsically more disordered than heterosexual adultery.”. “Homosexuality is described in Church teaching as an intrinsic disorder that goes against the natural law. Adultery, while gravelysinful, is
THE AIM OF CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP Over the last decade of my life, I've realized more fully the importance and true meaning of friendship. As a celibate Christian without the likelihood of future marriage, and for others like me, friendship within community is one of the main ways our sanctification works itself out. Friends point out our strengths and weaknesses, and PEDERASTY AND ARSENOKOITAI One argument that is sometimes offered by Christian advocates of same-sex marriage is that the Apostle Paul was not thinking of loving, monogamous adult relationships, and only intended to condemn Greco/Roman pederasty. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading ancient Greek texts on sexuality recently, and that has gotten me thinking in general about BENEDICT XVI: DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST Benedict XVI: Do Not Be Afraid of Friendship with Christ. Posted by Ron Belgau. 1. On February 11, 2013 Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign the Papacy. Last week, I shared a reflection on friendship Benedict shared in 2011, on the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination. Today, in honor of the fifth anniversary of hisresignation, I
A RESPONSE TO ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD A Response to Rosaria Butterfield. Many of our readers are likely familiar with Rosaria Butterfield, who has a powerful testimony being converted to Christianity while being a professor specializing in queer studies. Although I’ve had certain disagreements and frustrations with her, she had always struck me as a compassionate,honest, and
INTRINSIC EVIL AND DISORDER: HOW TO MISUNDERSTAND THE “Homosexuality is intrinsically more disordered than heterosexual adultery.” “Homosexuality is described in Church teaching as an intrinsic disorder that goes against the natural law. Adultery, while gravely sinful, is not.” “An intrinsically disordered condition is more akin to schizophrenia or addictions, whereas adultery is an act of rebellion against God's norms.” C. S. LEWIS ON HOMOSEXUALITY & DISGUST C. S. Lewis on Homosexuality & Disgust. In the last few days, there has been an extensive debate over a post by Thabiti Anyabwile arguing that Christians should have done more to invoke people’s “gag reflex” about gay sex in order to oppose same-sex marriage. I responded directly to this yesterday, and also published a response byKyle
SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP Posted by Ron Belgau. 7. One of the most consistent criticisms of Spiritual Friendship by those associated with Courage has been our use of language, particularly the word “gay.”. One of the earliest criticisms was Dan Mattson’s July, 2012 First Things article, “ Why I Don’t Call Myself A Gay Christian .”. ABOUT | SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP About. We embrace the traditional understanding that God created us male and female, and that His plan for sexual intimacy is only properly fulfilled in the union of husband and wife in marriage. However, this blog was born out of frustration with the prevailing narratives about homosexuality from those who embrace this traditionally ChristianSOULS KNIT TOGETHER
Justin Taylor points to an excerpt from an article by Michael A. G. Haykin, the Patristics scholar, on biblical images for friendship: The Bible uses two consistent images in its representation of friendship. The first is that of the knitting of souls together. Deuteronomy provides the earliest mention in this regard when it speaks of aDANIEL QUINAN
Intrinsic Evil and Disorder: How To Misunderstand the Catholic Catechism. Posted by Daniel Quinan. 4. “Homosexuality is intrinsically more disordered than heterosexual adultery.”. “Homosexuality is described in Church teaching as an intrinsic disorder that goes against the natural law. Adultery, while gravelysinful, is
THE AIM OF CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP Over the last decade of my life, I've realized more fully the importance and true meaning of friendship. As a celibate Christian without the likelihood of future marriage, and for others like me, friendship within community is one of the main ways our sanctification works itself out. Friends point out our strengths and weaknesses, and PEDERASTY AND ARSENOKOITAI One argument that is sometimes offered by Christian advocates of same-sex marriage is that the Apostle Paul was not thinking of loving, monogamous adult relationships, and only intended to condemn Greco/Roman pederasty. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading ancient Greek texts on sexuality recently, and that has gotten me thinking in general about BENEDICT XVI: DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST Benedict XVI: Do Not Be Afraid of Friendship with Christ. Posted by Ron Belgau. 1. On February 11, 2013 Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign the Papacy. Last week, I shared a reflection on friendship Benedict shared in 2011, on the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination. Today, in honor of the fifth anniversary of hisresignation, I
A RESPONSE TO ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD A Response to Rosaria Butterfield. Many of our readers are likely familiar with Rosaria Butterfield, who has a powerful testimony being converted to Christianity while being a professor specializing in queer studies. Although I’ve had certain disagreements and frustrations with her, she had always struck me as a compassionate,honest, and
INTRINSIC EVIL AND DISORDER: HOW TO MISUNDERSTAND THE “Homosexuality is intrinsically more disordered than heterosexual adultery.” “Homosexuality is described in Church teaching as an intrinsic disorder that goes against the natural law. Adultery, while gravely sinful, is not.” “An intrinsically disordered condition is more akin to schizophrenia or addictions, whereas adultery is an act of rebellion against God's norms.” C. S. LEWIS ON HOMOSEXUALITY & DISGUST C. S. Lewis on Homosexuality & Disgust. In the last few days, there has been an extensive debate over a post by Thabiti Anyabwile arguing that Christians should have done more to invoke people’s “gag reflex” about gay sex in order to oppose same-sex marriage. I responded directly to this yesterday, and also published a response byKyle
ABOUT | SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP About. We embrace the traditional understanding that God created us male and female, and that His plan for sexual intimacy is only properly fulfilled in the union of husband and wife in marriage. However, this blog was born out of frustration with the prevailing narratives about homosexuality from those who embrace this traditionally Christian THE AIM OF CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP Over the last decade of my life, I've realized more fully the importance and true meaning of friendship. As a celibate Christian without the likelihood of future marriage, and for others like me, friendship within community is one of the main ways our sanctification works itself out. Friends point out our strengths and weaknesses, andWESLEY HILL
Posted by Wesley Hill. 4. One of the most controversial workshops at last year’s Revoice conference — in the weeks leading up the conference, conservative Christian bloggers and podcasters criticized it mercilessly for what they felt certain it would argue — was titled “Redeeming Queer Culture,” and you can now watch it here on ON STRAIGHT FRAGILITY On Straight Fragility. Posted by Mike Allen. 12. Sometime last year, I began reading about White Fragility. The phrase was coined by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, an accomplished academic whose work has been featured in various publications over the years. You can read her seminal piece on White Fragility here. Below is a synopsis of White Fragility ON CHRISTIANS WHO CHANGE THEIR MINDS Over at First Things, I’ve got a new column on my frustration with the way the renowned Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff went about making his case for same-sex marriage: Clearly, there exists in the church today the possibility of genuine, reasoned, substantive debate over the rightness of same-sex marriage. Some of the mosthumane and
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND REVELATION There's been some recent discussion on Catholic blogs about the relevance of personal experience in conversations about how the Church can provide community and pastoral care to gay and lesbian Catholics who are seeking to be faithful to Church teaching. In order to answer this specific question, it's worth examining the relationship between revelation and experience more generally. BENEDICT XVI ON FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST Benedict XVI on Friendship with Christ. Posted by Ron Belgau. 2. On Tuesday, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI sent a letter to an Italian newspaper. In response to a question about his well-being, Benedict wrote of the “slow waning” of his physical strength, and spoke with hope of his “pilgrimage toward home.”. “It’s a greatgrace, in
AGAPÁO AND PHILÉO BY THE SEA OF TIBERIAS In today’s Gospel (from John 21), we heard the story of Jesus’ third post-resurrection appearance to His disciples. Simon Peter and six other disciples were on a boat in the Sea of Tiberias. They had been fishing all night, and caught nothing. At daybreak, Jesus called to them from the shore, and asked if they OLIVER O’DONOVAN ON HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CHURCH Of all that I have read on the question of homosexuality and the church, nothing compares in pastoral and theological perspicacity to the following excerpt from Oliver O’Donovan’s Church in Crisis: The Gay Controversy and the Anglican Communion. O’Donovan is a theological ethicist in the Anglican Church. He writes: Homosexuality is not the determining factor in JESUS, JOHN, AND THE INTIMACY OF PHYSICAL TOUCH Jesus, John, and the Intimacy of Physical Touch. Posted by Jordan Monge. 12. Crisis Magazine recently covered several writers at Spiritual Friendship with some caution at the notion of chaste friendship. Austin Ruse’s skepticism shines through when he writes: “Their ideal is that you can draw close to someone of the same-sex,love them
SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP Posted by Ron Belgau. 7. One of the most consistent criticisms of Spiritual Friendship by those associated with Courage has been our use of language, particularly the word “gay.”. One of the earliest criticisms was Dan Mattson’s July, 2012 First Things article, “ Why I Don’t Call Myself A Gay Christian .”.SOULS KNIT TOGETHER
Justin Taylor points to an excerpt from an article by Michael A. G. Haykin, the Patristics scholar, on biblical images for friendship: The Bible uses two consistent images in its representation of friendship. The first is that of the knitting of souls together. Deuteronomy provides the earliest mention in this regard when it speaks of aDANIEL QUINAN
Intrinsic Evil and Disorder: How To Misunderstand the Catholic Catechism. Posted by Daniel Quinan. 4. “Homosexuality is intrinsically more disordered than heterosexual adultery.”. “Homosexuality is described in Church teaching as an intrinsic disorder that goes against the natural law. Adultery, while gravelysinful, is
THOMAS SUNDARAM
Posted by Thomas Sundaram. 0. Since I became a contributor for Spiritual Friendship, a number of people have asked me why I decided to start exploring the question of homosexuality within the Church and its relation to the lay vocation and the philosophy of the person. As a philosophy major, and therefore a super nerd, my usual first thoughtis
KYLE KEATING
Posted by Kyle Keating. 11. Christianity Today posted a two part story last week from a man in a mixed-orientation marriage. I wanted to pass it along to the SF community for a few of reasons: 1. It shows the diversity of stories that fall under the broad categorization of “mixed-orientation marriage.”. A NOTE ON JESUS AND “MASCULINITY” Looking through some old files on my computer today, I stumbled across an essay by Michael Horton, professor of Westminster Seminary in California, taking on the “New Calvinists”’ recent fixation on a certain version of “masculinity”. My early spiritual and theological formation happened in the evangelical Reformed wing of Christianity, and I continue to follow many WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND REVELATION There's been some recent discussion on Catholic blogs about the relevance of personal experience in conversations about how the Church can provide community and pastoral care to gay and lesbian Catholics who are seeking to be faithful to Church teaching. In order to answer this specific question, it's worth examining the relationship between revelation and experience more generally. PEDERASTY AND ARSENOKOITAI One argument that is sometimes offered by Christian advocates of same-sex marriage is that the Apostle Paul was not thinking of loving, monogamous adult relationships, and only intended to condemn Greco/Roman pederasty. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading ancient Greek texts on sexuality recently, and that has gotten me thinking in general aboutWIT AND PARADOX
May 20, 2012 at 5:18 pm. Joe, I can’t speak for James, but in my faith tradition, the witness of the Holy Spirit is available within all baptized believers. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, faith and temperance. It really isn’t that difficult to be a gay Christian. C. S. LEWIS ON HOMOSEXUALITY & DISGUST C. S. Lewis on Homosexuality & Disgust. In the last few days, there has been an extensive debate over a post by Thabiti Anyabwile arguing that Christians should have done more to invoke people’s “gag reflex” about gay sex in order to oppose same-sex marriage. I responded directly to this yesterday, and also published a response byKyle
SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP Posted by Ron Belgau. 7. One of the most consistent criticisms of Spiritual Friendship by those associated with Courage has been our use of language, particularly the word “gay.”. One of the earliest criticisms was Dan Mattson’s July, 2012 First Things article, “ Why I Don’t Call Myself A Gay Christian .”.SOULS KNIT TOGETHER
Justin Taylor points to an excerpt from an article by Michael A. G. Haykin, the Patristics scholar, on biblical images for friendship: The Bible uses two consistent images in its representation of friendship. The first is that of the knitting of souls together. Deuteronomy provides the earliest mention in this regard when it speaks of aDANIEL QUINAN
Intrinsic Evil and Disorder: How To Misunderstand the Catholic Catechism. Posted by Daniel Quinan. 4. “Homosexuality is intrinsically more disordered than heterosexual adultery.”. “Homosexuality is described in Church teaching as an intrinsic disorder that goes against the natural law. Adultery, while gravelysinful, is
THOMAS SUNDARAM
Posted by Thomas Sundaram. 0. Since I became a contributor for Spiritual Friendship, a number of people have asked me why I decided to start exploring the question of homosexuality within the Church and its relation to the lay vocation and the philosophy of the person. As a philosophy major, and therefore a super nerd, my usual first thoughtis
KYLE KEATING
Posted by Kyle Keating. 11. Christianity Today posted a two part story last week from a man in a mixed-orientation marriage. I wanted to pass it along to the SF community for a few of reasons: 1. It shows the diversity of stories that fall under the broad categorization of “mixed-orientation marriage.”. A NOTE ON JESUS AND “MASCULINITY” Looking through some old files on my computer today, I stumbled across an essay by Michael Horton, professor of Westminster Seminary in California, taking on the “New Calvinists”’ recent fixation on a certain version of “masculinity”. My early spiritual and theological formation happened in the evangelical Reformed wing of Christianity, and I continue to follow many WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND REVELATION There's been some recent discussion on Catholic blogs about the relevance of personal experience in conversations about how the Church can provide community and pastoral care to gay and lesbian Catholics who are seeking to be faithful to Church teaching. In order to answer this specific question, it's worth examining the relationship between revelation and experience more generally. PEDERASTY AND ARSENOKOITAI One argument that is sometimes offered by Christian advocates of same-sex marriage is that the Apostle Paul was not thinking of loving, monogamous adult relationships, and only intended to condemn Greco/Roman pederasty. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading ancient Greek texts on sexuality recently, and that has gotten me thinking in general aboutWIT AND PARADOX
May 20, 2012 at 5:18 pm. Joe, I can’t speak for James, but in my faith tradition, the witness of the Holy Spirit is available within all baptized believers. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, faith and temperance. It really isn’t that difficult to be a gay Christian. C. S. LEWIS ON HOMOSEXUALITY & DISGUST C. S. Lewis on Homosexuality & Disgust. In the last few days, there has been an extensive debate over a post by Thabiti Anyabwile arguing that Christians should have done more to invoke people’s “gag reflex” about gay sex in order to oppose same-sex marriage. I responded directly to this yesterday, and also published a response byKyle
A NEW WAY OF BEING HUMAN Rather the only way we know what humanity rightly should be is to begin our reasoning from human nature perfected in the New Adam and his revelation of the prototype of nature in the resurrection. And this brings me to my third and final implication of Paul’s theological anthropology. If Christ, the firstborn from the dead, isthe prototype
ON STRAIGHT FRAGILITY On Straight Fragility. Posted by Mike Allen. 12. Sometime last year, I began reading about White Fragility. The phrase was coined by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, an accomplished academic whose work has been featured in various publications over the years. You can read her seminal piece on White Fragility here. Below is a synopsis of White FragilityWESLEY HILL
Posted by Wesley Hill. 4. One of the most controversial workshops at last year’s Revoice conference — in the weeks leading up the conference, conservative Christian bloggers and podcasters criticized it mercilessly for what they felt certain it would argue — was titled “Redeeming Queer Culture,” and you can now watch it here on FRIENDSHIP AND THE SCANDAL OF PARTICULARITY In a recent post, Wesley Hill discusses the apparent tension between the Christian ideal of universal, unconditional love and the particularity of friendship, and cites Samuel Johnson's worry that “All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or, perhaps, against the interest of others Now Christianity recommends universal benevolence, to consider allWIT AND PARADOX
May 20, 2012 at 5:18 pm. Joe, I can’t speak for James, but in my faith tradition, the witness of the Holy Spirit is available within all baptized believers. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, faith and temperance. It really isn’t that difficult to be a gay Christian. UNDERSTANDING GENDER DYSPHORIA A primary emphasis at Spiritual Friendship is the experience of navigating sexual identity in light of one's Christian identity. Another topic that is often a part of cultural discussions of sex and gender is Gender Dysphoria. It is not the same thing as sexual identity, but the topic of Gender Dysphoria and the increasedvisibility
BENEDICT XVI: DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST On February 11, 2013 Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign the Papacy. Last week, I shared a reflection on friendship Benedict shared in 2011, on the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination. Today, in honor of the fifth anniversary of his resignation, I offer another reflection on friendship with Christ, this taken from his BENEDICT XVI ON FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST Benedict XVI on Friendship with Christ. Posted by Ron Belgau. 2. On Tuesday, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI sent a letter to an Italian newspaper. In response to a question about his well-being, Benedict wrote of the “slow waning” of his physical strength, and spoke with hope of his “pilgrimage toward home.”. “It’s a greatgrace, in
AGAPÁO AND PHILÉO BY THE SEA OF TIBERIAS In today’s Gospel (from John 21), we heard the story of Jesus’ third post-resurrection appearance to His disciples. Simon Peter and six other disciples were on a boat in the Sea of Tiberias. They had been fishing all night, and caught nothing. At daybreak, Jesus called to them from the shore, and asked if they OLIVER O’DONOVAN ON HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CHURCH Of all that I have read on the question of homosexuality and the church, nothing compares in pastoral and theological perspicacity to the following excerpt from Oliver O’Donovan’s Church in Crisis: The Gay Controversy and the Anglican Communion. O’Donovan is a theological ethicist in the Anglican Church. He writes: Homosexuality is not the determining factor in SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP MUSINGS ON GOD, FRIENDSHIP, RELATIONSHIPS Skip to content Main menu* Home
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TWO SURVEYS: ONE FOR LGBTQ+ PERSONS WHO CAME OUT TO CHRISTIAN PARENTS; ONE FOR CHRISTIAN PARENTS WHO HAD A CHILD COME OUT TO THEM AS LGBTQ+ Posted by Mark Yarhouse0
We recognize that this is a very stressful time for us as a country and the world community as a whole. During this time, we feel it is important to continue with research that is important for our families and loved ones as it helps us to become closer and understand eachother better.
By participating in this research, you help us better understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ persons who at one time came out to a Christian parent(s), or you help us understand the experiences of Christian parents who had a loved one come out to them as LGBTQ+. In the first study, the researchers are specifically investigating the quality of relationship with their parents before, during and aftercoming out.
If you decide to participate in this anonymous SURVEY OF LGBTQ+ PERSONS WHO CAME OUT TO A CHRISTIAN PARENT(S), then please follow this LINK to the survey to review the informed consent form and then complete the survey, which should take about 20-30 minutes. The second study we are conducting IS FOR CHRISTIAN PARENTS WHO HAD A CHILD COME OUT TO THEM AS LGBTQ+. In this study, the researchers will specifically investigate the quality of relationship with their LGBTQ+ loved one before, during and after coming out. If you decide to participate in this anonymous survey, then please follow this LINK to the survey to review the informed consent form and then complete the survey, which should take about 20-30 minutes.Thank you,
Mark Yarhouse & Olya Zaporozhets Posted in psychologyApr·16
A NEW MEASURE OF CONGRUENCE Posted by Mark Yarhouse0
Dr. Olya Zaporozhets and Dr. Mark Yarhouse (co-authors of _Costly Obedience_) are interested in learning about the path of reconciling sexual and religious identity conflicts. To aid in our understanding, we are developing and validating a new measure of Sexual and Religious Congruence as well as validating an existing measure of religiosity. This is an anonymous study. Your identity will not be recorded or disclosed and your answers to questions will not be shared withothers.
For the purposes of this study, we seek people who are both a “sexual minority” (people who experience same-sex attraction regardless of behavior or identity) and Christian for whom faith and spiritual values are important. To learn more about the study and to participate, please go to this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7YXFXCV Posted in psychologyOct·31
ON PROPER PRIDE
Posted by Daniel Quinan2
In a quickly-deleted tweet last June, a prominent Catholic priest responded to our nation’s annual season of LGBTQ celebrations by asking: “If we’re celebrating Pride this month, what sin are we celebrating next month?” On a superficial level, this was a very silly question; after all, if earnest critics desire to associate LGBTQ Pride celebrations with one of the seven deadly sins, surely _lust_ would be the more appropriate candidate. But on a much deeper level, this sloppy critique betrayed a profound blindness to commonplace equivocation of what the term “pride” can signify. For although “pride” in one sense certainly corresponds to vice and sin, there are equally legitimate senses in which “pride” can correspond to nothing other than glory and a crowning virtue. Moreover, and for precisely the same reason, it follows that a certain form of pride is nothing less than the _virtuous _response to unjust oppression and discrimination. It seems worthwhile, therefore, to embark on an exploration of the philosophical and theological tradition surrounding these issues, in order to arrive at a better foundation for reflecting on modern “pride” movements in general, and LGBTQ Pride specifically. Continue reading →Posted in culture ,
prejudice ,
psychology
Sep·18
CARDINAL DOLAN, COURAGE LEADERSHIP, AND THE SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL Posted by Ron Belgau4
Last Thursday, _Catholic New York_, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, published a notification that Fr. Donald Timone has (at long last) been removed from priestly ministry. He was suspended in December of last year, and the Archdiocesan Review Board only just determined that allegations that he sexually abused minors were credible and substantiated, though the diocese had paid for two six-figure settlements after abuse allegations in 2017. The story obviously implicates Cardinal Dolan. Last December, the _New York Times_ reported that even after the Archdiocese of New York had paid out the settlements for sexual abuse of teenage boys by Fr. Timone, Cardinal Dolan kept him in ministry, despite the clear requirements of theDallas Charter
,
and the fact that these were particularly egregious allegations: one of Fr. Timone’s victims, Timothy Murphy, had committed suicide. And just after the _New York Times_ revelations, the _Catholic News Agency_ reported that the Archdiocese of New York had issued a letter to John Paul the Great University.
The letter ,
written just a few weeks before the _Times_ article, stated “without qualification” that Fr. Timone had “never been accused of any act of sexual abuse or misconduct involving a minor.” The University, quite reasonably, called the letter a “lie.” (Notably, Msgr. Edward Weber, who signed the letter, remains in charge of New York’s Priest Personnel office ; he also remains Vicar for Clergy.) But the story goes beyond Cardinal Dolan and involves Courage, an official ministry to same-sex attracted Catholics. Continue reading→
Posted in UncategorizedSep·04
JOHANNA FINEGAN AT REVOICE Posted by Ron Belgau2
Johanna Finegan ‘s keynote speech at Revoice 2019. A very powerful meditation of the theology of the cross vs. theologies of glory. Posted in UncategorizedJun·17
A NOTE ON COURAGE AND LANGUAGE Posted by Ron Belgau7
One of the most consistent criticisms of Spiritual Friendship by those associated with Courage has been our use of language, particularly the word “gay.” One of the earliest criticisms was Dan Mattson’s July, 2012 _First Things_ article, “Why I Don’t Call Myself A GayChristian
.”
This article launched Mattson’s career as one of the most visible spokesmen for Courage, until they parted ways in January. The criticism which has frequently been directed our way, by Mattson and others who speak for Courage, is that by using the word “gay,” we were making our sexuality the defining aspect of our identity. We have explained that this is not our intenton numerous
occasions (see below for further examples). I recently read Courage founder Fr. John Harvey’s 2007 pamphlet, _Same Sex Attraction: Catholic Teaching and Pastoral Practice_, and
thought the following paragraph shed valuable light on the rather absurd mentality behind Courage’s critique: > The time has come, however, to refine our use of the term > _homosexual_. A much better term than “homosexual person” is the > following: _a person with same-sex attractions_. The distinction is > not merely academic. Instead of referring to “homosexual > persons,” which implicitly makes homosexuality _the_ defining > quality of the people in question, we can put things in clearer > perspective by referring to men and women with same-sex attraction. > A person, after all, is more than a bundle of sexual inclinations, > and our thinking about same-sex attraction (hereafter SSA) is > clouded when we start to think of “homosexuals” as a separate > kind of human being. “The human person, made in the image and > likeness of God, can hardly be adequately described by a > reductionist reference to his or her sexual orientation . . . every > person has a fundamental identity: the creature of God and by grace, > His child and heir to eternal life” (Congregation for the Doctrine > of the Faith, _Letter on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons_,> 1986, no. 16)
This criticism illustrates, I think, just how radical Courage’s view of language is, and how far it has departed from the language of theChurch itself.
Continue reading →Posted in church ,
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, terminology
May·24
GOD LOVES THE BROKEN, AND WE SHOULD TOO Posted by Jeremy Erickson1
Among those who affirm gay relationships, I often hear the argument that LGBTQ people are “not broken,” and therefore are worthy of love. One high-profile example of this is the hashtag #BornPerfect, which is used to
oppose attempts to change sexual orientation. From a secular perspective, this can make some sense. However, I also see the same argument being made by those who profess to be Christians. This involves a major theological mistake, which is much more basic thansexual ethics.
Instead, we should focus on the Gospel, what it says about humanity’s shared state of brokenness and sinfulness, and how Godredeems that.
The “not broken” argument does get some things right: LGBTQ people are made in the image of God, loved by God, and should be loved by others. To say otherwise is a lie from the pit of Hell. But the way it gets there is fundamentally antithetical to orthodox Christianity on several levels. Continue reading →Posted in Bible ,
disorder ,
perseverance ,
Uncategorized
May·22
CT: HOW A GAY ATHEIST TEENAGER DISCOVERED JESUS AND STOPPEDLIVING UNDERCOVER
Posted by Spiritual Friendship1
In _Christianity Today_, Greg Johnson, the pastor of Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, shared his testimony of growing up gay, finding Jesus, and eventually becoming a Presbyterian pastor committed to upholding the unchanging Christiansexual ethic:
> The gospel doesn’t erase this part of my story so much as it > redeems it. My sexual orientation doesn’t define me. It’s not > the most important or most interesting thing about me. It is the > backdrop for that, the backdrop for the story of Jesus who rescued> me.
READ THE FULL TESTIMONY AT _CHRISTIANITY TODAY_.
Photo credit: Karen Kallberg Posted in UncategorizedMay·21
“WE ALL BELONG TOGETHER” Posted by Wesley Hill3
Yesterday was my friend and housemate Aidan’s first Sunday to serve as the priest at a new parish. I attended the service along with Melanie, Aidan’s wife, and their daughter (my goddaughter) Felicity, sitting in a pew near the front and helping Mel with the fidgetytwo-year-old.
During the announcements, Aidan introduced himself to the congregation and then pointed to our pew. “This is my family,” he said. He asked Mel and Felicity to stand up and said, “Mel is my wife, and Felicity is my daughter.” And then he indicated that I should stand too. “And this is our friend Wes. We live in Christian community. Wes shares our home and is Felicity’s godfather.” When I told another friend about what Aidan did, he replied that it was “a public declaration that ‘We all belong together.’”Precisely.
People sometimes ask me what I envision when I say we need more public recognition and honor for friendship,
“thicker” practices of belonging and kinship with one another,
and even vows to seal those things.
I don’t want to say my particular form of belongingis the best
answer, let alone the only one, but what my friend Aidan said and did yesterday is the kind of thing I have in mind. Posted in UncategorizedMay·13
AGAPÁO AND PHILÉO BY THE SEA OF TIBERIAS Posted by Ron Belgau1
In today’s Gospel
(from John 21), we heard the story of Jesus’ third post-resurrection appearance to His disciples. Simon Peter and six other disciples were on a boat in the Sea of Tiberias. They had been fishing all night, and caught nothing. At daybreak, Jesus called to them from the shore, and asked if they had caught anything (they did not recognize him). When they replied that they had not, He told them to cast the net on the other side of the boat. They did so, and pulled up so many fish they could not get the net into the boat. The disciples then recognized Jesus, and Peter jumped out of the boat and swam about a hundred yards to shore. The others brought the boat to shore, where they pulled 153 large fish out of the net, which they then cooked over a charcoal fire. After breakfast, Peter and Jesus had a conversation which raises an interesting question about how to understand the verbs for love—_agapáo_ and _philéo_—used in the original Greek. Continue reading → Posted in friendship, God
, hope
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