"You can train as a local preacher" they said."are you sure she asked?" Yes they replied. Then in her first interview they said 'don't talk about your family, it might upset some people".
This homophobia brings the greatest of disgrace on our ministry.
This is why I want to provide a real, safe-enough place to build worshipping community.
The theory is great, getting started is terrifying.
I think our theology starts within the body, the experience of life as a woman, an able bodied person, an unfit person. Just as that local preachers story telling has to start , in part, with bring lesbian. And yet St Paul says its about the spiritual- and he is right. But maybe we have to start with the corporeal. If we ignore it, are we not creating stumbling blocks.
So, what will this new community look like? What will we do? Who will we be? I have no idea, but I know we must not discredit our ministry by placing stumbling blocks in the way of people of The Way
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