This series has been about looking at some of the places queer folk of various stripes see our experiences reflected in Scripture and, in Friday’s post, the post-biblical Tradition. But, of course, there are texts which either explicitly or implicitly seem to condemn homosexuality, or at least homoeroticism. And it’s important to give these texts … Continue reading The Clobber Texts
Even if, as this series has shown, the weight of the biblical tradition against the inclusion and affirmation of LGBTQ2S+ persons is not as heavy as one might be led to think from so much of the current discourse, it remains that Christianity has never been a friendly place for queer folk. And yet, despite … Continue reading Whispers in Tradition
The focus of this series has been on the places in the Scriptures that resonate in some way with LGBTQ2S+ persons’ experiences of God and the world. We’ve seen how Adam might best be seen as nonbinary before the surgical act that splits male from female. We’ve seen how sex in the Scriptures is never … Continue reading Male and Female, Christ and the Church: The Question of Complementarity and Same-Sex Relationships
One of the funny things about having an area of specialty is that you can have very specific, and to outside eyes, ridiculous, pet peeves. As someone with a background in linguistics, one of mine is when people read philosophical or theological meaning into the grammatical gender of a noun in languages like French or … Continue reading The Queer Holy Spirit?
One of the major roadblocks LGBTQ2S+ people experience in finding acceptance and welcome within their communities of faith is simply the perception that tradition is set in stone and cannot change. It’s that difficult combination of inertia and ‘case-law’ I talked about last post again. But as we saw with the case of eunuchs the … Continue reading Welcoming the Outcasts: Acts 10-11 as a Blueprint for Change
Matthew Root 