The Sunday after General Convention I returned to my home parish for Gay Pride Sunday and participated in a Disco Mass for which gays and lesbians turned out in force. The opening hymn was a beautiful jazz rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” Musical offerings came from gay men in sequined tank tops and from the Director of Music who was ushered into the service singing a disco number complete with Go-Go girls. The queen of St. Mark’s appeared in full drag to deliver the homily and the closing hymn was, Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family.” As I stood singing among straight men and women, young parents with their children, gays and lesbians, teenagers in hip hop clothing, Asians, whites, African Americans and Spanish speaking people I realized I was part of the realm of God and I was glad to be there - in a place where God’s creation of a new thing was being lived out.
Does your parish church have an official drag queen? Maybe Archbishop Akinola is just jealous because his doesn't.
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"there were Crusades (with the promise of forgiveness of all sins to those who murdered Arabs and Jews in the holy land), and other attrocities." Ah, but then there was the murder of millions of innocent Armenians by the Moslem Turks ... shall we go on ? Saadya, on the one hand you state the Jesus was a "secularist" and on the other than his Kingdom was "not of this world." I don't think I've ever written such a tortured exegesis of the New Testament.
Anyone else seen Stephen Davidson on the other blogs? Anyone else think he's psychotic?
Haven't seen Stephen Davidson, but that Anon guy sure gets around.
St. Mark's has been a renegade church for literally 80 years. In the 1920s, Bishop Manning of New York refused to conduct confirmations and Episcopal visitations until the parish ceased holding worship services which included ritual dances in homage to pagan deities. W.H. Auden was a parishioner there, curiously enough.
"on the one hand you state the Jesus was a "secularist" and on the other than his Kingdom was "not of this world." Right, Jesus did not want his followers to think that he was here to create the 'kingdom' that Isaiah 60 led many messianic Jews to expect: one where all the other nations would be paying a tribute to Judea in the same way that they paid taxes to Rome. He was a secularist. Did you know that the poor in Europe paid taxes to the church during the dark ages?
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