Book challenges church on sexuality

Book challenges church on sexuality

Former High Court justice Michael Kirby will launch Five Uneasy Pieces, a book of essays addressing anti-gay interpretations of Bible passages. He has also written the book’s introduction.

Nigel Wright, the first Anglican priest in Melbourne to come out as gay, edited the book. In the essays, he and other Anglican theologians, including the Reverend Dr Alan Cadwallader, offer different interpretations of scripture about homosexuality from those held by Christian conservatives.

The book has already earned the praise of senior theologians. The Dean of Trinity College Theological School, Dorothy A Lee, wrote that “the book as a whole makes it crystal clear that both sides of the debate take seriously the Bible”.

The book will be launched at Paddington Uniting Church on Wednesday, February 22, from 6-8pm. The Reverend Ben Gilmour will MC the event.

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8 responses to “Book challenges church on sexuality”

  1. What’s a church Dave, or Christianity? What exactly do 700 church leaders lead? Flocks? What’s Anglican Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu a bishop of? What’s Anglican for that matter? And who’s Jesus and what’s God?

  2. I’ts called popcorn theology.

    Jesus father was probably a Roman soldier by the name of Tiberius Lulius Abdes Pantera.

    I can live with that.

  3. There are many interpretations of the Bible that is the foundation for many Christians faiths such as the Catholic and Protestant faiths.

    The King James Bible has a lot of puddles of hate from the authors. They splashed it with their views of the time, it was not often a direct translation.

    This is why in New York over 700 church leaders came out to support Marriage Equality. Some modern translations do not even use the word homosexual as the word is from the 1850’s.

    It is amazing to watch people like Anglican Arch Bishop Desomnd Tutu support equality.

    I hope the book enlightens some! Jesus never said a thing against the couples around him, and the first law against same-sex couples was passed over 350years after his death, after a bitter power struggle within the early church that we are still dealing with today. If you own God, you own the people!

  4. The notion that a theologian can be progressive is a contradiction in terms as “progressionism” is denying the divinity of Jesus. Therefore, in those terms, Christianity cannot exist and any essays offering different interpretations of scripture and homosexuality cease to have any relevance.