Posted on 01/28/2026 7:33:42 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
Duke Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina is offering a course that explores the intersection of “queerness” and Christianity.
The course seeks to “broaden the discussion of queerness and theology for a productive intervention.” The class is titled “from Baptismal Font to Queer Theology” and awards one unit of credit.
”This course examines and excavates ‘queer’ in relationship to theology and theory,” a course description reads. “Is queer driven by identity politics, an umbrella term for sexual identity, gender identity, antinormativity politics, social locations, or is queer descriptive of something entirely different? Does queer have an agenda?”
”To answer these questions and many more, this course will seek to develop strategies for asking questions in a way that broadens the discussion of queerness and theology for a productive intervention in the discipline of constructive theology seeking to hold faithfully to the intersecting realities of church, tradition, and scripture,” the web page continues.
Duke Divinity’s mission is “to engage in spiritually disciplined and academically rigorous education in service and witness to the Triune God in the midst of the church, the academy, and the world,” according to the school’s website.
The school also offers a course titled “Queering the Old Testament” which “explores ways to interpret the Old Testament that acknowledge the diversity of gender expressions.” Another class also helps students integrate their “theological training and thinking with the study of queer theory.”
Duke Divinity previously also held a worship service along with the university’s pride student organization back in 2022 to praise the “great queer one.” The video was made private, but students were heard referring to God as a “drag queen, and transman, and gender fluid.”
Campus Reform has reached out to Duke University for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.
Not a lie.
I was run out of a local Southern Baptist church because of another family member questioning their abandonment of the Baptist Faith and Message in favour of their own “statement of faith” they wrote. They will not even support the Second London or Philadelphia Confession of Faith, they wrote their own in 2018, then Big Entertainment controls music where the youth dance and not sing, and we haven’t developed anything for youth for purposes of appealing to their lowest common denominator.
Ditched everything for the fads from Rick Warren.
Ridiculous and even blasphemous.
With traditional Methodists, the intersection was where a congregation's foot intersected with the rear end of an unrepentant gay advocate amongst them. Hence the GMC vs UMC schism.
“Queer” has NOTHING to do with Christianity!
When I was in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, I was a big fan of Harvard Divinity School (HDS). I audited courses given by HDS professors, and I attended communion services led by Lutheran HDS professors, since I was then a Lutheran.
Lutherans led HDS at that time, which was a big boost to my morale when I was under attack by atheists in my own molecular biology department. However, some time after I received my PhD, a Lutheran dean of HDS ruined that school for Lutherans, by engaging in pornography and pushing liberalism.
HDS never had a Lutheran dean ever again afterwards, and became an ultra-liberal shadow of its former self. And I eventually became an Orthodox Christian.
Methodist Duke Divinity School seems to be doing similar things to HDS. Not good!
If this wokeism pushes more young men (and women!) to embrace Orthodox Christianity: MUCH good!
Glory to God for all things!
Demonic perversion, as those powers seek to pervert anything that reflects His wisdom, power and glory.
Another example is the demonic issue of the perversion of a feminist wordcrafter in wokeducation, warring against what God ordained,
"Conceptualized through its intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."
This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4361458/posts?page=32#32
United Methodist propaganda to push evil. I see this war on everyone outside their “chosen ones”.
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