Voices
the door to gay priests and a basic
softening of the church’s hardline
stance against LGBT peoples.
Cool.
The Pope was not the only
world religious leader to make
news on gay issues of late. Archbishop Desmond Tutu rocked people’s mind when he said that he
would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven. The icon of the
anti-Apartheid movement made
the comments at the launch of a
United Nations gay rights program
in South Africa:
I would not worship a God who
is homophobic and that is how
deeply I feel about this. I am as
passionate about this campaign
as I ever was about apartheid.
For me, it is at the same level.
Really cool.
But these are just the latest
headlines that are bubbling up
with cool Christians doing relevant, compelling things. The
United Church of Christ has voted
to divest from fossil fuel companies; the Episcopal Church is
headed by an amazing woman who
is both a scientist and pastor and
who is spearheading the conversation between science and religion;
PAUL BRANDEIS
RAUSHENBUSH
HUFFINGTON
08.11.13
Evangelicals are taking the lead on
climate change; the American Bishops are lobbying for immigration
reform; the Patriarch Bartholomew
is known as the “Green Patriarch”
for his work on the environment;
Christians are involved with innovative and crucial dialogue with
people of other faiths and no faiths;
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