I liked several months ago when we came across the “women remain silent” passages, Kate Moorehead-Carol in her Office devotional said, “The lectionary slips over those verses today. Well don’t want to. Let’s talk about them.”

PS. I don’t think the way to do Bible reading is to shy away from the uncomfortable verses. You can’t have an intelligent and investigative discussion about something if you’re not willing to admit/or are fully aware of what is there.

death and resurrection... with them, the black men and white men, with all life, in him whose Name is above all the names that the races and nations shout... We are indelibly and unspeakably one."

Jonathan Myrick Daniels

Augustine thought about this it appears

or does it imply an eventual end of an era, implying the king described by the Psalmist bound by the creation to some extent?

Could the Gospel reading be seen as an expansion of the prophetic description of the Messiah?

other hand, attaching man to God by His own incarnation, and bestowing upon us at His coming immortality durably and truly, by means of communion with God — all the doctrines of the heretics fall to ruin.

St. Irenaeus

I’m sorry for the way the church has hurt you 💔

A simplistic take of a thorough and evidence-citing piece. I agree with Vines that critiquing the movement or strategy in an effort for progress is not the same thing as being anti-LGBTQ. I suppose we see it differently and I respect your right to. I hope you offer the same in return

“When you position yourself against social norms simply because they are norms,…, and when you relentlessly push the envelope for the sake of shock value, you are asking for a backlash.”