Category: Heal

For people who have been hurt by Christianity in any form.

Disarming the Clobber Passages, #3

In the final discussion of the movie Fish Out of Water, we moved on the three new testament passages used in discussions about the lgbtq community: Romans 1: 26-37, 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10. I touched upon Romans 1 in my recent post #2 on the Clobber Passages (July 24), so I’ll focus …

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Disarming the Clobber Passages, #2

Last week in the Wicker Park Grace Movie Group we watched the next 10 minutes of A Fish Out of Water, and talked about the Holiness Codes of Leviticus, and the Romans 1 text which talks about “natural” and “unnatural” sexuality. The Holiness Codes, of which Leviticus 18:22 is a part, gave guidelines to the …

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Disarming the Clobber Passages, #1

Last week we started a movie discussion group at Wicker Park Grace, based on the movie Fish Out Of Water. It tells the filmmaker’s story, who came out as a lesbian when she was in college and was rejected by all her Christian friends who told her she was going to go to hell. To …

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A Bit of History — 2003 TV show

Back in 2003, the first full year that I was working as a minister in Wicker Park, I was interviewed for a “Spiritual Journey” segment on a Chicago TV show called 30 Good Minutes. In the video I tell the story of my separation from Christianity as a teenager, and years later feeling welcomed at …

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