https://livingchurch.org/covenant/are-we-an-lgbt-affirming-parish/ Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://livingchurch.org/covenant/are-we-an-lgbt-affirming-parish/#comment-15974 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:02:56 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=81239#comment-15974 This is a fine piece, and it largely speaks my mind on the subject. The citation from Galatians invites us to lay aside identity politics and embrace the cross as the only banner under which we must travel.

]]> https://livingchurch.org/covenant/are-we-an-lgbt-affirming-parish/#comment-15946 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:15:23 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=81239#comment-15946 I am surprised, and pleasantly so, that I am, even as a “conservative,” pretty much in line with, and can “live with,” this statement. (“Live with,” as if it were up to the church to meet with my approval.) Anyway, I nearly passed the statement by. I am now 70 and Lutheran. In the late ’80s, though, when I was testing a call to ordained Episcopal ministry, I visited Va. Seminary a couple of times and on three occasions worshiped at Ascenscion and St. Agnes; I was very taken with it then, and not just for its churchmanship, but for its kindness to visitors and its obvious concern for living a full-orbed Catholic faith. The rector’s letter indicates that the same values are intact. Moreover, it appears that in a fractured church where many “people like me” no longer feel welcome, I still might be able to find a home there. If I still were Anglican, and if I found myself living in the D.C. area, I’d be wrong if I did not try it out again.

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