You probably aren’t aware that November 20 is the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. Cameron Partridge is. The observance began after the 1998 murder of a transgendered Boston woman. November 20 also happens to be Partridge’s birthday (he turns 38 this year), and BU’s new Episcopal minister, the University’s first openly transgendered chaplain, once shuddered at a birthday that reminded him both about his own mortality “and that you could be killed.”Read the rest here.
Then a church he served hosted commemoration services that pulled in hundreds each year. “I started to feel like, you know what? I need to go. This is really important,” Partridge says. “There’s still part of me that’s like, ugh, but honestly, I really find that it’s such a powerful experience of community. And that’s a really wonderful thing to have on your birthday.”
As he takes over the University’s part-time Episcopalian chaplaincy, Partridge, who lives outside Boston with his wife and their toddler son, says he wants to minister with the empathy that has sometimes been denied him since he completed his transition to a man in 2001. His father, for example, no longer speaks to him. “It’s not my choice,” he says. (Most family and friends accepted him after long conversations.)
HT: T-19
"...he lectures at Harvard Divinity School, specializing in gender and sexuality ideas in early Christianity and theology. Glenn says Partridge introduced him to “queer readings of scripture,” which interpret biblical passages according to gay believers’ experience."
ReplyDeleteThis was in the linked article. Is this all the GLTFB (or whatever it is) mafia can obsess on: viewing everything in life through the lens of their crooked (i.e. cameron) sexuality? Do heterosexuals obsess over their sexuality like this? No. Clearly infiltration and corruption of churches is the goal of many of these GLTFBs or they could have just started their own GLTFB churches.
One of the reasons the OC attracted me was due to its strong moral, spiritual, and history opposition against such heresy and perversion.
Well, there was the 'Reformation', forced on England because it was convenient for the king. (Every other reason given for Anglicanism is an ex post facto rationalization.) Women's ordination didn't break up the Episcopalians; it just started a few splinter churches (like how the Reformed Episcopal Church left in the late 1800s protesting Anglo-Catholicism), but this stuff hits people where they live. It's not just religious opinion; it's primal. Four dioceses quit to form their own church, an Episcopal first.
ReplyDeleteThe Episcopalians are Protestant but not yet apostate but that's always only a convention vote away. (Something Rome and the Orthodox will never do.)
My guess: their Communion-without-baptism fad, against their current rules, is a dry run for the soft apostasy I think they'll vote in (making belief in the content of the creeds officially only optional: they won't tell Grandma she can't believe in Jesus anymore but they'll be unitarians, not Christians).
Well, they're not American high society anymore, they're literally getting old and dying off, and Pope Benedict and the Antiochians are importing all the good stuff the Anglo-Catholics did (basically, the Tridentine Mass in classic King James English). In 25 years they won't exist as a denomination; what's left will merge with the rest of the mainline.
Sure, be polite to people with Partridge's problem but the illiberal liberals want to force everybody to go along with a surgically and hormonally enhanced game of pretend. OK. I say I look just like Russell Crowe. I demand the law make people treat me as such.
Who is really shocked or surprised by this sort of thing within the TEC anymore?
ReplyDeleteWhat I find more disconcerting is the institutional pressure being applied to the few remaining TEC bishops who aren't going with the progressive program - for example what is going on now with the Bishop of South Carolina Mark Lawrence (see http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/40049/#comments for example). Broad church indeed.
Steve