Throwback Thursday to an empty sky
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On hearing marriage might be restricted again in our church. Midweek Musing.
I am disappointed.
I am angry.
I feel betrayed.
A musing, midweek, after news that a courageous, generous, and faithful decision on marriage might be cast aside.
In July, the national council of my church, the Uniting Church in Australia, made a decision to include in our understanding of marriage that it is both between a man and a woman, and between two people regardless of gender, and to allow our members to hold either view according to their conscience (for details, see here, and here; for former President Rev Prof Andrew Dutney's reflection on this as a courageous and faithful decision, see here).
This decision did not cast aside one view or another, did not declare or even imply that the old, familiar, cherished-by-many view was wrong. It did allow us to give dignity to faithful people who want to commit to lifelong partnership with the vows and covenant of marriage under law and within the church before God.
There are some who hold that old familiar view of marriage who wa…
I am angry.
I feel betrayed.
A musing, midweek, after news that a courageous, generous, and faithful decision on marriage might be cast aside.
In July, the national council of my church, the Uniting Church in Australia, made a decision to include in our understanding of marriage that it is both between a man and a woman, and between two people regardless of gender, and to allow our members to hold either view according to their conscience (for details, see here, and here; for former President Rev Prof Andrew Dutney's reflection on this as a courageous and faithful decision, see here).
This decision did not cast aside one view or another, did not declare or even imply that the old, familiar, cherished-by-many view was wrong. It did allow us to give dignity to faithful people who want to commit to lifelong partnership with the vows and covenant of marriage under law and within the church before God.
There are some who hold that old familiar view of marriage who wa…
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