There is so much going on that it is actually very difficult for me to find a subject on which to comment. I’ll take a bit of personal privilege just to say a bit about my own personal struggle/growth/decisions as of late. As an African American male, I have been working through my own self-identification [...]
Posts under ‘Preaching’
An answer to…”Why Do They Want To Marry”
Friends, I suddenly realized that I have been referring to a post that I previously wrote on gay marriage that was not posted in “hear now in the body”. Here is that original post in its entirety from 2008. This helps set the foundation for the work I have been doing in regards to gay [...]
LOST IN TRUTH…
I just read this wonderful story about a woman who met a man that she fell in love with while his soul led him to the same conclusion. To put it in her own words which is the title of her post (link below), “It Happened to Me: I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born [...]
OWS from a Chaplain’s POV: Guest Post
MZR-Yandle is a person who is committed to the ideation of gender activism moving past monikers, physical and sexual iterations. This Guest Post invites you into MZR Yandle’s expression in the reality of activism outside of sexuality, but with sexuality/gender–reality/expression (think algebraic formula). I use “MRZ” to help us thing outside the box. ”Yandle” has [...]
In Honor of United Nations Day October 25, 2011
No, the purpose of this post is to be aware of the tactics and rhetoric of the Gay Christian Watch Movement and others who ascribe to anti-gay terrorism. In general, the Faith in Human Rights Statement is simply a mea culpa of the world’s religious leaders that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, although over sixty years old, has not been achieved. Queen Beatrix brought together these religious leaders so that they might acknowledge the churches role in not working towards its realization. Does the GCWM really think that with all of the crimes around the world, from continued trafficking and slavery, regimes of terror, wars and tactics of war should be rendered secondary in global and spiritual importance simply because they don’t like GLBTQ/SGL persons?
A Note from Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Tutu responds to the PCUSA regarding its stance on ordination for all: Dear Brother in Christ, I am writing you with the request that you share these thoughts with my brothers and sisters in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): It is incumbent upon all of God’s children to speak out against injustice. It is sometimes [...]
Still Jumping The Broom…
Marriage…I’ve addressed this topic before on this blog. Then it was in response to a question of why do ‘you gays want to get married in the first place’. Living in New York City during the pre and post Marriage Equality Bill I must say, things have certainly changed. Not two weeks before the State [...]
Letter to Darius~”One Who Maintains Possessions”: The One Who Comes After
I see you in the church pew amongst the sea of black, brown and beige bodies at the age of 6 or 7 dangling your feet to the sway of the music. I notice how your eyes linger on your blink as the singer holds a soaring note invoking the Spirit of God to come here now. How your head rolls to the right and your eyes slowly open, as if in a everlasting trance of a single moment, when the singer gasps for the breath to sing on. I see how you jump to your feet to clap a syncopated rhythm in response to the choir’s exuberant gospel refrain. And just last week I felt your heart yearn as your soul responded to the spiritual you are way too young to knowingly sing truthfully, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I Seen.” And yet the furrow of your brow told me that you will know of what you sing.
A Presbyterian, shares sermon with “hear now in the body” at an historic moment in the life of PC USA.
I imagine if people were asked to vote whether or not to allow the women at the tomb to speak……..they would have voted no. Despite this the angel tells them to go spread the good news; they were called to bring the truth. The unlikeliest of messengers were sent out. And so here I stand, like a slingshot, I have been pulled back, and I’m tired of being in the slingshot. I am ready to go. Its going to take five more votes to release the whole Presbyterian Church from our slingshot. Into what I don’t yet know. But we are full of excitement and a little nervous about spreading the word. And I am the unlikeliest of messengers.
Sitting in the Pew
A musing… Today is the day. Our church has finally voted to allow them into the pulpit and we are supposed to be accepting and affirming. After all it is what Christ would have us be. What I can’t quite figure out is why they have such a need to be involved in our churches. [...]
