Started listening through the Church Of England synod to check the quality of the "affirm same-sex romance" arguments. Very first one from this AM's stream:
"What we have here is something that doesn't really add up. It doesn't make sense. And what I'm saying is that's okay."
Progs Stop Believing They'll Be The First Ones To Successfully Defy The Law Of Non-Contradiction Challenge (Impossible)
"The crucial question [is] whether people like me who–by our nature and birth are, just like the Gentiles were in Acts, different–can have sex. Are our sexual relationships sinful or do we, like Peter, accept God's command not to call anything impure that God has made clean?"
Imagine being over the hill with gray hair, apparently having been celibate this whole time, and still insisting that you can't live without sex
This guy changed his mind on queer affirmation because, while he was caring for a man dying of AIDS, he felt "this incredible sense of the presence of angels ushering him into heaven." (1/2)
"I'm not ashamed to say, yes, it was that revelatory experience...like Paul's on the Damascus road...that led me to years of prayerful study of scripture, and I began to recognize...I had no need to fear the sexual Other." (2/2)
me looking for the limiting principle that keeps this guy's argument from also affirming the "sexual Other" known as pedos
Romans 14! (an attempt was made)
"Don't permit an argument over what is served or not served at supper, or who wants to get married, and wreck God's work among us. All food is good. Everything God created is good." (1/2)
She ends with a reading of Revelation 7:9
"'A great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages,' and, I will add, genders and sexualities, 'standing before the throne...'"
(Revelation 22:18 could not be reached for comment)
DOPE PREACHER CLIPS: this thread needs some sanity
"I have studied every extant Jewish writing on the subject between 200 BC-200 AD. They are absolutely univocal. They say that any homosexual sex is sin...If [Jesus] did not regard that as sinful, he grossly misled his listeners"
Found the British Kristin Du Mez!
"In the early church debates, marriage did not mean sex...Betrothal, handfasting ceremonies, and bundling were commonplace, all traditions which specifically sanctioned and had liturgies around premarital sexual intercourse..." (1/2)
"So as a historian, no, the church has not taught consistently for 2,000 years that sex outside marriage is a sin...For much of our history, discussions about marriage have not been about sex primarily, but about power." (2/2)
The church should embrace "equal marriage" because Jesus "gives away power"
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AP COURSES.
TYRE NICHOLS.
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Speaker is J.C. Howard, senior pastor of The House Of Hope in Macon, GA, guest speaking at Trinity UCC Chicago (formerly led by Jeremiah Wright). His sermon simply uses Ezekiel 37:1-10 (the valley of dry bones) as a jumping-off point for an autoethnophilic rant.
Is this...blood and soil doctrine?
"America, you better look again, because we're here and this land belongs to us...We're going to lead the way that God called us to lead."
North Carolina pastor warns his congregation that when they don't give tithes and offerings to churches like his, they are "perpetuating the Tyre Nichols situations of our society."
Here's wider context. Speaker is James Gailliard of Word Tabernacle Church.
"When I say the African-American Church, I'm not talking about a church of only black people. I'm talking about a church that understands that the gospel is justification by faith and social justice."
Houston megachurch pastor appears to urge black Americans to stop working in offices with white people during a sermon responding to the killing of Tyre Nichols
"Don't you think coz your name is on the desk or on the door that they're going to treat you any differently. Any time they get a chance, they're gonna bring you down! That's why you better come back over here and meet us...who know that 'All my help comes from the Lord.'"
Here's wider context. Speaker is Rev. Terry K. Anderson of Lilly Grove Missionary Baptist Church. It's a wild, rambling sermon framing racial dynamics in today's USA through Jesus' parable of the wheat and tares...which is about unbelievers pretending to be Christians (1/4):
Did you know The Holy Post podcast has platformed queer-affirming guests? Samantha Beach Kiley (Episode 516, July 6, 2022) is on staff at Raleigh, NC's Church On Morgan, which aims to "include, affirm, and celebrate our LGBTQ siblings" per its website: archive.vn/TJi3v
Months before their appearance on Holy Post, Beach Kiley and her mother Nancy Beach (formerly of Illinois' Willow Creek megachurch) preached an entire sermon on the "Divine Feminine," gender-swapping Psalm 23 and the Lord's Prayer to honor God as mother.
They didn't exactly hide this heterodoxy in their HP interview. Beach Kiley told Skye Jethani: "Gender has impacted our understanding of God...There's going to be an evolving conversation about gender and how that plays into our understanding of God."
VeggieTales co-creator Phil Vischer spent nearly 30 minutes on a recent podcast discussing Candace Cameron Bure's new Great American Family network, with Phil saying it would be problematic if the channel does not have any "sexual or gender minorities" as supporting characters.
The cheap shots these guys take at people outside their tribe...
"Her husband is a Russian hockey player. I read that today. I thought that was interesting. That's not very American!"
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Phil Vischer compares modern Christians who oppose legal same-sex marriage to (what else?) "Confederate theologians." Gets into a pretty heated rant about what hubris we have thinking that Edenic marriage is a "permanent thing" worth conserving.
Here's the wider context. What sets him off is Al Mohler's column critiquing David French for his endorsement of the "Respect For Marriage Act." (1/3)
"He is not defending the faith in this. He's defending conservatism. Conservatism has become the thing that we are supposed to fight for. Not Jesus. Not the faith. Not the church." (2/3)