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Squaring the circle
Christian life is not all about prohibitions. It’s more important to remain faithful to a way of life that sustains a pilgrim path than to ‘avoid’ a bunch of pre-formulated evils, such as having sex with another man. We explore and try, we seek and find; we evolve – and sex is part of our journey. God, the great experimenter, works through adaptation.
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(Mark 4, 35-41) On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be Still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
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