I saw this story at Juicy Ecumenism which has a heavy Methodist slant. People going for their Masters degree in Divinity are obviously not learning Christian divinity,
Praying to “the Great Queer One,” students at United Methodist-affiliated Duke Divinity School proclaimed God’s acceptance and support for LGBTQ relationships in a Pride worship service March 22.
Divinity Pride, a student group affirming the “dignity, faithfulness, and strength of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and gender/sexuality non-conforming Christians,” sponsored the worship service.
“Strange one, fabulous one, fluid, and ever-becoming one,” prayed second-year Master of Divinity (M.Div) student Caroline Camp in opening the service. She stated that God is “mother, father, and parent” and “drag queen, and transman, and gender-fluid.”
Tirzah Villegas, an M.Div student, encouraged listeners to accept their sexuality because “You are never called to abandon yourself. Abandoning the self is negating the truth of who you are, and that is always a lie,” Villegas stated. God is a “queer God” who loves “every part of us,” according to Villegas.
A self-identified trans woman, C.J. Surbaugh, a first-year M.Div student, defended gender transition as biblical.
The United Methodists in the United States are headed for a split up, and now you know why.
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The new Global Methodist Church is launching on May 1. Traditionalists decided to go ahead with it since leftist Methodists are delaying the UMC General Conference which was supposed to allow leftist and traditionalist churches to split amicably.
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DeleteThe church has become blasphemous. It’s easy to see why Islam grows.
ReplyDeleteIslam grows when Christians walk away from the Apostolic faith and try to create their own religion like these seminarians are doing.
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