December 2009
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Dec 9th
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The Christian Gene
fuckyeahtheology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzbNkyXO50 Provocative, at least among certain Christian circles that claim to want to ‘cure’ homosexuality. How do you reconcile those kinds of Christian beliefs, and what efforts do you see being made that are trying to make Christianity as a whole to be more inclusive? And how do you distance yourself from those kinds of Christians when...
Dec 1st
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The Christian Gene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCzbNkyXO50 Provocative, at least among certain Christian circles that claim to want to ‘cure’ homosexuality. How do you reconcile those kinds of Christian beliefs, and what efforts do you see being made that are trying to make Christianity as a whole to be more inclusive? And how do you distance yourself from those kinds of Christians when these kinds...
Dec 1st
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November 2009
36 posts
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Nov 23rd
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Okay I lied, here's a thought about sex and...
We were talking about churches condoning (or not) same-sex unions in class and my prof raised an important notion. Same-sex marriage is, for the first time in awhile, FORCING the church/churches to think about sex and realize how inadequate their views on sex and sexual ethics are. He suggested that maybe we ought to let the issue dangle for a little bit longer because frankly, there are a whole...
Nov 23rd
Fuck yeah, Thanksgiving break! lol
I’ll be pretty distracted this week while my mother fawns over me, so I’ll be updating less, sadly. However, I’m supposed to be writing a paper comparing the Sri Guna Ratna Kosa (a Hindu hymn to the goddess Sri) with Frauenlob’s Song of Songs (a reinterpretation of the song of songs with respect to the Virgin Mary) text due Dec 1st, so that should bring some exciting...
Nov 23rd
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“So, uhh, ethics.”
– Mark Jordan, having a philosophical moment in class xD
Nov 19th
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Nov 18th
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“Simon Peter said to them, ‘Mary should leave us, for females are not...”
– Layton’s translation. The Coptic text is below. I only took it for a semester so I can only read a little bit of it, lol. There are more translations and some commentary here. Obviously the internet is not the best place to study religion, I just can’t link you to a book always, lol....
Nov 17th
Community
signsandwonders: On Saturday my (Catholic) church had a cabaret to raise money for the restoration of the building. It was as ridiculous and campy as I expected. There was a sensual male-on-male dance, an almost naked belly dancer, a drag queen, a duet by a grossly-in-love newlywed couple, and culminated with the priests and staff doing a song and dance from the Chorus Line, except they wore...
Nov 16th
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Nov 15th
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“They interrogated the soul, ‘Where are you coming from, human-killer, and...”
– Gospel of Mary Magdala, translated by Karen King
Nov 15th
Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
“Our meditations on Jesus are incomplete without his sex. Telling the truth about...”
– Mark Jordan
Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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Queer Surprise!
Robert E. Goss says that “to say Jesus the Christ is queer is to say that God identifies with us and our experiences of injustice… Resurrection is God’s ultimate queer surprise.” Ultimate queer surprise, eh? First thing I thought of was surprise!buttsecks. But I suppose resurrection is pretty fucking queer as well. Just like a virgin birth. I love Christianity, lmfao.
Nov 14th
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“Heteronormativity fears independent women and their reproductive freedom. Like...”
– Robert E. Goss, Queer Theologian
Nov 14th
“Fetishism is then the realm of the mythological field of fictitious or unproved...”
– Marcella Althaus-Reid, Latin American Queer Theologian
Nov 14th
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“Once a Catholic, always a perv, some say…Nothing else comes closer to the...”
– Collings
Nov 14th
Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
“Ecclesiastical figures are constantly being represented as staging leather...”
– Queer Theology course, Prof. Mark Jordan
Nov 13th
“The story of the virgin mary is the myth of a woman without a vagina.”
– Marcella Althaus-Reid, Latin American Queer Theologian
Nov 12th
“No young girl thinks ‘perhaps if I am humble enough God will have sex with me’”
– Marcella Althaus-Reid, Latin American Queer Theologian
Nov 12th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 12th
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“At church on Sunday, you do not take [the bread and wine] from the platter and...”
– Me, on the eucharist being unsexed, in a recent paper. I’m reposting some things from my other tumblr to get this party started ;)
Nov 12th
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Nov 12th
“How we ever convinced ourself that religion was something that could be...”
– Queer Theology course, Prof. Mark Jordan
Nov 12th
“God up there? No, God down here. God down here.”
– Queer Theology course, Prof. Mark Jordan.
Nov 12th
Nov 12th
SUBMIT!
-cracks whip- If you have something indecent and thought provoking you’d like to submit, you can do so here. I’ll have to approve the entry, so please: there is a fine, fine line between straight up offensive/rude and the shit I’m posting. A sexy poem about the Virgin Mary is awesome. A picture of someone marching around with the Virgin Mary’s head impaled on the stake...
Nov 12th
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Nov 12th
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You will probably be offended by this blog.
I’m a graduate student attending divinity school. I study the New Testament and Early Christianity, but have an avid interest in women, gender and sexuality studies. I consider myself a liberal, protestant Christian and am religious/spiritual, though I’m sure that many conservative or even mainstream Christians would tell me I’m going to hell. Oh well. If you want your mind blown...
Nov 12th