In my post on the ordination discussion at last month’s General Conference Annual Council meeting (#GCAC14), I shared several background resources including the 1973 Camp Mohaven Report; Dr. Olive Hemmings’ book on ordination, interpretation, and culture; and the three positions that the Theology of Ordination Study Committee presented to the wider church: (1) the headship principle […]
Synchroblog: Coming Back to Prayer
This is a contribution to the 2014 Queer Theology Synchroblog under the theme “Coming and Going.” Other contributions will be compiled on the QT site by October 22. The article I contributed to last year’s synchroblog on creation was based on Genesis 1:2, and I reference it in this piece. “I, though I saw and heard these […]
Olive Hemmings, Richard Rice on Ordination & Interpretation
Black women have always comprised anywhere between 65 and 90 percent of membership in black [US] churches — institutions where they are largely excluded from the religious polity… Religion that began in slave communities is the only ancestral tie American-born blacks have to something like a family tree. But black churches, like many of their white […]
Representation and Invisibility
Tyson asked this question on Real Talk with Bill Maher back in 2011; but he was not the first to ask and I suspect no answers will be forthcoming. Discussing diversity and the relationships between social location, experience, and decision-making perspective seems to be one of the quickest ways to make lots of people uncomfortable. […]
Inspired Possibility: Opening the Gift of the Queer Soul
Part of the 2013 Queer Theology Synchroblog | Thanks, @shannontlkearns, for the invite. The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. – Genesis 1:2 Imagine with me the void before “Let there be light”—the empty […]
