Gospel For Gays

Journal – 3: The weakness of our God

But he’s the God of weakness, not strength. That’s the whole point; and that’s the theme of today, the crucifixion. Weakness and silence. I speculate: that’s why we hate God so much. That’s why we reject his love, why we rise against him, try to destroy him, try to eradicate his weakness from the face of the earth. We demand a God of power, who will serve us and deliver our “solutions” to the problems and limitations and constraints of this life (especially pain, death, change, Uncertainty). It doesn’t work. God is weak – as love is ‘weak’.

Holy Week Journal – 2

I tell those voices – and the Lord – that he made me this way, and he loves me this way, and that I have to be both faithful to my nature, which is sexual and gay, and to his path, this Holy Week: this week in which we all in our different ways try to accompany Jesus in his fear, his fidelity, his incredible loneliness, his need, his humiliation, his pain, his abandonment, his death agony.

Did Jesus laugh?

Laughter is a fundamental part of being human, but the gospels never show Jesus laughing. Why is this? I begin a series of speculations – and some personal research – on the subject this week, exploring the nature of laughter, of God, and the existential issue at the heart of the human-divine reality: this flawed creation.

On atheism, faith and freedom

The only genuine argument against the existence of God is the pervasive reality of suffering. This is a mystery in which, whoever we are, like it or not, we must all participate – but believers have the advantage because they find freedom in prayer.

Sexuality is not a cross

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.” -Mark 8, 27-35; Gospel for Sunday, September 13.