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Rebel Unicorn's avatar

I think the fear is that it's dangerous. The way of life you have embraced is too dangerous. Even to discuss it would be to allow that somehow some small slice of it might be holy and that would change everything. Up would become down, east west, dogs and cats living together, utter chaos. So the weird thing is that the institution isn't necessarily wired to approve and support all holiness, only all traditionally ratified behavior. So you get approved behavior that is unholy and unapproved behavior that is holy. I'm not sure we know how to be the church beyond those boundaries, because if tradition is made optional (I mean if that which is tradition-approved is made optional) then what holds us together? Oddly enough it may be that all boundaries and identities are illusions and we're all just people playing make-believe as if money were anything, nations were anything, gender were anything, membership were anything, etc. "It's the end of all master narratives" my friend in seminary said of Post Modernism. No one utters that phrase any more--post modernism--but it keeps poking up its head. This is the 500 year rummage sale we expected. Everything is up for grabs. We may yet end up a church built on nothing... nothing but the good stuff that you find in the moment. Like love.

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Matt Rittle's avatar

The questioning present here speaks to me deeply, in my work with LGBTQ+ people within a denomination that struggles with affirming them.

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