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Risk a few more steps into the new country, trusting that each time you enter it, you will feel more comfortable and be able to stay longer.”
--Henri Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love
Leaving the old country is wildly uncomfortable.
The only way to enter the new country is “naked and vulnerable.”
Yet while the arrival is filled with bewilderment—the exploration can be thrilling.
It took me over a year to settle into this new space.
We’re offering a masterclass on a different 20th century mystic each month!
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Just two months ago, the United Methodist Church, a denomination with over 6.8 million members in the United States, announced a proposed split into queer-affirming and non-affirming sects.
On a structural level, a “non-affirming” church is one that doesn’t ordain LGBTQ clergy or perform LGBTQ marriages. For Emil, “The major point of peace that came in my journey was realizing that Christianity and being queer are, at their core, both just about love.” Emil, like Fr.
Henri Nouwen, abandoned the “or” of his Christian and queer identities in favor of “and.”
And so, when Emil or Timothy or anyone with unanswered questions wanders up to Fr. Nouwen’s namesake, Nouwen Chapel, in the Yale Divinity School Library, they’ll find vaulted ceilings, stone walls and an open, echoey silence.
And if they look long enough – for affirmation, for solace, for a break from the exhaustion – they’ll find, tucked under a crucifix on the altar, a folded index card with a Rainer Maria Rilke quote:
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign language… Live the questions now.
I have found God over and over again in this beautiful way that I couldn’t have imagined when I was first having those dark thoughts lying awake for hours as a teenager.” He sees God working through “the unique gifts that queer people bring to the Church, which is a certain set of resilience and commitment that I think is often unparalleled.
One of the most utilized verses to justify anti-queer theology is Leviticus 18:22, which says that “man shall not lie with man as with a woman; it is an abomination.” Timothy calls these passages “sticking points” that can render a church non-affirming of homosexuality. For many queer people who still show up to churches even after they’ve been hurt so many times, there’s a real love and dedication there that I think is beautiful.
For a while you experience a real joy in the new country. Had it not been for the tenderness of Henri Nouwen, my spiritual director, and a few key friends,
I wonder if I would have made it.
So you can understand why I am so passionate about the mystics - including Henri Nouwen. Whether you are just arriving to a new landscape or have been off-roading for decades,
the mystics provide companionship and deeply grounded wisdom.
In our upcoming masterclass, I am thrilled to be joined by the award-winning teacher Ronald Rolheiser (and 11 other outstanding teachers!) for an immersive exploration of this spiritual wilderness.
Rolheiser is one of the most beloved spiritual writers today, and in his authenticity, reminds me of Nouwen.
Join us to discover the crucial role tenderness plays in the spiritual life--and why it may be the core ingredient for divine intimacy.
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He wrote about the beauty of God’s world and felt deep, unexplainable sadness within it.
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- Provide insight into the evolution of the Japanese boys’ love genre in print media; what’s changed in the last fifty years in art styles, themes, and major players (those who have since retired, or those who are still active).
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A renowned Catholic theologian and Yale Divinity School professor in the 1970s, he suffered from “and” rather than “or.” He trusted God to lead his life and had severe anxiety.Still, you are very much at home, although not truly at peace, in the old country. According to Rev. Peek, the idea of cutting away sinful things has been “manipulated, to where LGBTQ members have been cast out of the church and have somehow been seen as people who are toxic, harming Christianity, harming God’s word, and harming the Christian way of life.”
She believes this metaphor of fruitfulness can be just as easily applied to church theology as to an individual.
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