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** Rainbows for Pride Month
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Here in the US, June is LGBTQ Pride Month. I am reminded of this each year, all too rudely, when my faith community posts its rainbow-filled Pride content and faces incredible backlash. Online trolls, in the name of Christ, barge into our comment sections to yell about hell, heresy, false prophets, and much more. One of the classic tactics of these provocateurs, or “God’s Bible defenders” as Brandon Ambrosino calls them, is to claim that LGBTQ folks stole the rainbow symbol from God in Genesis. You can read Ambrosino’s full and feisty rebuttal ([link removed]) to that claim below.
The timing rarely works out this way, but I am excited today to give you both a new article and a video of the week that corresponds to it in the same email. Tom Steagald wrote a poignant reflection on his dad’s complicated legacy in ministry ([link removed]) , based on an exploration of his old Bible. Then I chatted with Tom about navigating the thoughts and emotions we have about deeply flawed loved ones ([link removed]) .
Plus more great content below, like Jonathan Tran’s look at the overuse of the term “Christian nationalism” ([link removed]) and Laurie Klein’s delightful poem about ants ([link removed]) .
Email me: How do you engage with LGBTQ Pride?
Jon Mathieu
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** What is the rainbow in Genesis a reminder of? ([link removed])
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“There are thousands of these social media posts, and they all seem to revolve around a similar idea: LGBTQ people—and anyone else celebrating Pride—have stolen the rainbow from God.”
by Brandon Ambrosino
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** My dad’s old Bible offers more questions than answers ([link removed])
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“Most of my dad’s ethics were individual and prohibitive; not surprising, then, that his repentance was a matter of self-loathing: moralistic remorse for individual transgressions.”
by Thomas R. Steagald
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** Video: Tom Steagald on old Bibles and faith legacies ([link removed])
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Jon chats with Tom Steagald about his dad’s old Bible and the pietistic faith it represents. How will any of our faiths be remembered?
** In the Lectionary for June 23 (Ordinary 12B) ([link removed])
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When David steps out to challenge Goliath, he shifts from the acted upon to the actor.
by Brad Roth
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** What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean? ([link removed])
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“If Christian nationalists are all of these things, then they are none of them. Concepts that try to do everything end up doing nothing.”
by Jonathan Tran
** Ants ([link removed])
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“Countless antennae sweep
the phantom scent trail left behind
like a runic text ...”
by Laurie Klein
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