Faith Forward

Much like when we were children and were told about the monsters in our closet, (although they didn’t really exist), because someone in a position of authority said they should, we easily believed the lie. Homophobia is the monster in the closet to which it should never have resided. There should be no closet where the fabled monster lives.

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For Lacan, public law such as “No Photos” or “Do not go on the grass” implicitly attracts the subject of that law to commit the very thing it prohibits (exactly in the way that if we tell the child not to eat the freshly baked cakes, we are simultaneously pointing out the method with which [...]

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There has been a hip new influx of re-ideology. Or neo-ideologies. For example, there used to be evangelical, now there is a neo-evangelical movement in some churches. Its much like the straw men, they look like what they represent, but they depend on what is behind them to be informed.

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“This is an unfinished ‘pictionary’/dreaming out loud possibilities ‘manifesto for the future of the church…” I remember a few years back listening to the buzz of this new idea of a ‘church without walls’. And i thought to myself how inventive is this, a belief that god doesn’t need bricks to dwell somewhere…

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