Over the break, in addition to learning Hebrew, reading Old Testament and writing my three big papers, I’ve been reading Seow’s Homosexuality and Christian Community. It’s a collection of 13 essays by past and current Princeton Seminary professors, and it’s fabulous. Over the course of the 13 essays, you’ll most likely run across almost every position that can be had on the issue, and I really appreciate that. However, the more essays I read that call for a re-evaluation of the current/majority view on homosexuality, the more I find myself in agreement. It’s going to take a lot to convince me to believe that homosexuality is a sin and that we shouldn’t be fully welcoming all people into the ministry of the word and sacrament.
Over the course of the next few weeks, I’ll be posting thoughts and new ideas I run across while reading these essays. Feel free to comment (like you always can) on the posts, but please…let’s see if we can get away from just throwing up the same Lev 18.22-30, Romans 1.26-32, 1 Cor 6.9-11 type of stuff. Let’s look at this issue with grace, love and a humility that expresses our finitude.