“God’s Tricksters” at New York Pride. St Francis Xavier church in New York ranks alongside the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in San Francisco as one of the world’s best known parishes with an explicitly welcoming and inclusive ministry…
Monthly Archives: June 2010
St Paul’s Celebration of God’s Gift of Sexuality.
The standard view of sex and the Bible is that sexuality must be reigned in, and restricted to the confines of marriage. The standard view, says Norwegian scholar Reidulf Molvaer (Two Making One : Amor and Eros in Tandem), is…
Combating Bigotry, A Cause for Sainthood: Brooklyn Diocese
At a special church service on Thursday night, Bishop Nicholas A. Di Marzio of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn opened what is known as a “canonical inquiry” into the cause of sainthood for a Brooklyn priest, Msgr. Bernard J.…
Belgium: Does Abuse Cover-Up Continue?
One of the repeated claims made by Church authorities to counter the outcry over abuse, is that while they acknowledge past mistakes, these are indeed all in the past, that procedures have been mended, and that in the church as…
Gay Pride, Worldwide
This weekend will mark the fortieth anniversary of the world’s first gay pride parades, which were held in Chicago New York and Los Angeles on the 27th and 28th June, 1970. Originally, they were explicitly political in nature and called…
Pride in Faith: Seventh Day Adventist Straight Allies
Although there are a large number of resources available for gay Christians, from accepting mainline denominations to specific congregations of gay believers with more conservative theology, being gay in the Seventh-day Adventist church provides unique challenges. While Adventists are part…
Evangelical Ally: Kathy Baldock, “Canyonwalker”
St Paulinus of Nola: Bishop, Poet, Saint - and Gay.
Although some would dispute the description of Paulinus as ‘gay’, the description seems to me entirely appropriate to his sensibility. Although history records no evidence of physical expression of his same sex attraction, nor is there any evidence against it.…
Gay PM for Belgium?
Politics makes strange bedfellow. In the aftermath of the Belgian elections last week, one conceivable outcome in the never-ending tussle between Flemish and Walloon (French-speaking) interests could be an unlikely seeming coalition of opposites. If that should happen (and more…
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come,…
