Sarx

Toronto Pride6.jpg

Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

The pictures from TO Pride are posted to my flickr now. We bought this cool toy for our cameras…. many facets of pictures.
Brodie’s pics are also posted.

Preached on 24 June 2001 at St Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco… sorry for the repost: I’m in Toronto at the Pride Festival.
t’s my sense that both these readings that we’ve heard today talk about healing of one sort or another. The Gospel speaks of an internal healing, and the Epistle talks about [...]

N June of 1969, the “Homosexualist” movement was having a hard time. The cops were closing down gay bars (again) and no one was helping. The mafia – which owned all the bars – was making payments on time, but the cops and the mafia had agreed: we’ll close down your gay clubs [...]

Revised Common Lectionary:
Isaiah 6:1-8Psalm 29Romans 8:12-17John 3:1-17
Eastern Rite Lections:
Vespers:
Isa 43:9-14Wis 3:1-9Wis 5:15-6:3
Liturgy:
Heb 11:33-12:2
Mt 10:32, 33, 37, 38; 19.27-30
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.
HIS SERMON Is being drafted [...]

AUL FROMBERG, on the day after the Prop 8 Ruling in California, paints an interesting picture in today’s Daily Episcopalian:
In the ongoing work of converting a culture ––bending it toward justice, toward the restoration of human dignity and ordinary goodness––you have to recognize what the big struggles are, and which ones are small.
It’s hard [...]

EAR Californians (and others) who are upset by the recent Prop 8 decision… who are acting as if Californians don’t do this sort of thing…
I’m wondering how many gays were protesting in the streets in the 1970s when Proposition 13 robbed the state of tax funds and services and put California in a budget crisis [...]

Christ is Risen!

ATHOLIC New Agency reports that a Conference is being planned to help students ‘speak the truth’ on natural marriage. DId you get that? “Natural” marriage.
The rest of us do “unnatural” marriage.
Now, say what you want about genetics and “by birth” or “by choice” or “nature vrs nurture” or even “two keys [...]

ATHOLIC (Roman) News Agency offers us a prime example of Catholic (Roman) Homophobia: citing Rhode Island’s Bishop Thomas J Tobin’d call that Catholic apathy on same-sex ‘marriage’ must end. Last week (April 23) the Bishop’s Column in the local Roman newspaper explained in gory detail all the reasons good Papists should oppose Same-Sex Marriage [...]

HE EPISCOPAL Diocese in which I live has decided too take Discrimination a step further than is required by Episcopal Law. Not only are we not to elect a gay Bishop, we’re not to have gay candidates.
I’m of two minds… on the one hand it is good that someone – anyone – in ECUSA [...]

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 [...]