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I always wondered what the Orthodox explanation for the Song of Solomon (in the Bible) was.
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What is the scope of “sexuality” as defined by this group?
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Saint Augustine and Conjugal Sexuality
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Release Number 2011.30.1
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Sex is really weird because…
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St. Paul, the Fathers, and some thoughts. (Michael Berrigan Clark)
This little document of mine serves two purposes; I hope everyone will indulge me in what the French would call *un document polyvalent* — a multi-purpose paper.
Purpose number one: clearing up some confusion about what St. John Chrysostom said and did not say, and, with any luck, proposing a way forward for today’s Orthodox Christians to read patristic documents in an authentic way… a way that doesn’t distort the original author’s intent and doesn’t force artificial parallels between ancient society and contemporary culture.
Purpose number two: sharing a bit of personal history about how I came to my understanding outlined in Purpose number one. The beauty of the Orthodox Tradition is that it is never a story of abstractions, bodiless truths floating in space. Ours is an incarnational faith; Tradition has a *personal* character and progression.
On lesbianism and divorce/remarriage …
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Is it Ethical to be Catholic? Queer Perspectives
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New York’s same-gender marriage law prompts diocesan, pension fund changes
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May I say how impressed I am with the candor, the honesty, and the respect which everyone here seems to show one another
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