Thinking about Sex: Pt 1
November 5, 2004
I’m here in Chicago sitting in Starbucks, just getting in a quick post before I head back to Fourth Presbyterian Church to meet my small group. We arrived here yesterday around 1pm, got settled and then attended the opening session where we watched a screening of a film/documentary called Turning Points. It was a film discussing the lives of some LGBT people in ministry and how their families/friends/churches dealt with learning about this, it was pretty good and provided some good fodder for our discussion in our small groups.
We were all placed into breakout groups, and I was lucky enough to have Jack Rogers as my discussion leader - there are just 8 of us in the group. Jack used to teach at San Francisco Theological Seminary and was moderator of the 213th General Assembly (2001). In addition to his other writings (including a book on the creeds that’s read in many seminaries), he’s currently working on a book on homosexuality and the Bible, and he’s a fabulous man, very kind and brilliant. After groups, we had dinner at the Westin and then attended the opening worship service, where Williams College Chaplain, Rick Spalding preached to us about relationships, love; it was beautiful and poetic. I remember liking much of what he said, though I was falling asleep during some portions (I was exhausted yesterday). Last night a group of us seminarians went out for a few drinks and then came home fairly early. More updates will come later today (or tomorrow) hopefully. It’s a short conference and we’ll be on a flight home tomorrow afternoon. Until then…
Tags: Conference, Covenant-Network, Sex, Sexuality
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
November 5th, 2004 at 2:15 pm
Greetings, Adam!
As you have already gathered, I am sure, I was not able to make it to the conference. A work emergency came up and I had to fly to Cincinatti (of all places).
Thank you for posting about the conference, glad to see that you are interested in these issues. Truly, sex IS the untouched theological debate in the church today. Personally, I have found that eros can lead to great theological insight. Wish we could have wrestled with these issues together.
Regrets,
O.
P.S. Love the profile.
November 5th, 2004 at 4:39 pm
Jack Rogers! Funny, from evangelical to now! I attend SFTS and know of him well. Turning Points is a great film and was very eye opening to me. Frankly, it would nice for “the Church” to see the film. During CPE on of the main folks in the film spoke to my class. He was a woman.
Funny, how God gets bigger as our world view expands. IT is interesting how grace seems to grow as our narrow minds expand. :)
Peace,
Rick