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ER HOST IS Woefully behind in his reading of The Church and the Homosexual. In fact, chapter 3 was just started this weekend. Many apologies. I will continue apace. Or, rather: faster.

Scripture and Homosexuality McNeill says in the first paragraph that there are two questions we have to deal with: the first is the place of scripture in moral theology and the second is the place of the human sciences. …[A] Christian ethics as such reflects on human reality within the context of Christian revelation, it [...]

Moral Theology and Homosexuality As the framework for this chapter, McNeill points us to Fr Charles Curran’s Catholic Moral Theology in Dialogue. “Father Curran’s position merits serious consideration… in order to discern both the advanced understanding of (the LGTB) situation that it manifests and the limits of that understanding, and especially the value of the [...]

HIS Is the first in a series on The Church and the Homosexual by the Rev’d John McNeill. Preface & Introduction The preface begins with noting the book had originally been granted an imprimatur by the Church. This was later retracted. Then the author was silenced by the Church, and then expelled from his order. [...]

COUPLE OF Weeks ago, Adam, over at Pomomusings, began a serious of posts on Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality. He had quite a huge conversation up and running through the entire series of posts. The problem is that explaining away a couple of passages in Paul and Leviticus doesn’t do it for me: the Bible [...]

Difficult Love to the End… N SOME Very shallow ways, these are the chapters that a liberal will love the most. Olivier Clement draws on the deepest, mystical teachings of the Church to give the Gospel the most inclusive, the most Universalist readings possible. When I was at St Gregory’s Church, these chapters can make [...]

HE STUFF talked about in the current reading from Clement is at once terribly important and quickly (and rightly) relegated to the background. By the 14th Century this sort of chapter becomes enshrined in the dogmatic understanding of the Eastern church, although there are hints of it in the words of the earlier fathers. Some [...]

LEMENT’S Chapter on prayer… I feel like I don’t pray enough. Most of the stuff that I do (MP, EP, Compline, devotions, chanting, Jesus prayer, Mass, sundry church services, whatever…) are all simply preparation for that moment of Zen silence when I’m finally open to God and, for a brief moment, can shut up and [...]

URING a sermon on spiritual practice, Rick Fabian (rector of St Gregory’s Church in SF) shared that his spiritual practice was not getting angry at stupid drivers on the streets of San Francisco. And I realised – and shared afterwards – that I think my spiritual practice is tech support. Amy Grant sings this song. [...]

S ANYONE Out there reading the book for the book club? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? (Actually, I know people are reading. Where are the postings?)