In our increasingly clip-farmed, polarised world, the insights, gifts and wisdom of our LGBT communities are more than just “welcome”, they are our only way through this mess.
We are surrounded by dualistic and binary thinking on all sides: us and them, right and wrong, pure and impure, male and female, insider and outsider. Everything gets flattened into camps.
But reality is not binary. Human beings are not binary. Wisdom is not binary. Love is not binary. God is not binary.
And those who have already had to question rigid categories, challenge black-and-white thinking, and live truthfully beyond other people’s boxes carry a wisdom this world badly needs.
Not because LGBT people are automatically better than anyone else, but because those who experience life through a queer lens have had to develop emotional intelligence, self-knowledge, courage, improvisation, and a deeper tolerance for ambiguity.
They know how violent false binaries can be. And they know that real life is usually far more textured, paradoxical, and beautiful than the gatekeepers allow.
After all, most of what truly matters in life happens in the borderlands. Grief and gratitude, doubt and faith, hope and joy, strength and tenderness, freedom and belonging, justice and mercy.
So the question isn’t whether or not churches should “become LGBT affirming”, as if that was ever our call to make in the first place. The question is, do we want to be whole?
And maybe times like these can show us how those who can see past false binaries are not “optional extras” for church and society. They are our best teachers. Maybe even our only hope.
Thank God for people like Huw and Natalie who have offered this gift of a documentary film to the church. May we have the courage to receive the light they carry – and finally fling open the shutters.
When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it’s been deleted.
(Feed generated with FetchRSS)