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Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Gospel of Shame-Free Sexuality
Christianity Today ^ | 7 Feburary A.D. 2019 | Wesley Hill

Posted on 03/31/2019 7:09:57 PM PDT by lightman

...Unfortunately, the pastor who talked up the liberation that comes from admitting you’re in the wrong now seems more interested in helping people understand why they don’t need to. In her new book, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Bolz-Weber is out to set Christians free from the angst and humiliation churches have often foisted on them because of their sexual proclivities and behaviors. But the way the book goes about doing so is by rejecting wholesale the idea of “sexual purity” and, with it, the need to confess sexual transgression....

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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: antiabstinence; antichrist; antinomian; celebratesin; cultureofcorruption; elca; falseprophet; gaystapotactics; homofascism; itsjustsex; justdohim; lavendermafia; lutheran; moralabsolutes; nadiabolzweber; sexpositiveagenda; sexuality; shameless; smashmonogamy; smashthepatriarchy; smashthestate
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To: PetroniusMaximus

21 posted on 03/31/2019 7:41:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Army Air Corps

Bro, we’re not here forever

We do our best fighting the insanity and try to live clean lives and that’s all we can do.

We can’t stop the younger generations from destroying themselves.

they need to decide what kind of country they want.


22 posted on 03/31/2019 7:43:04 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: bigbob
Here is the kernel of her message:

I’m here to tell you: unless your sexual desires are for minors or animals, or your sexual choices are hurting you or those you love, those desires are not something you need to “struggle with.” They are something to listen to, make decisions about, explore, perhaps have caution about. But struggle with? Fight against? Make enemies of? No.

23 posted on 03/31/2019 7:43:34 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: dp0622

Still, I think that Laz would hit it.


24 posted on 03/31/2019 7:45:47 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: lightman

Christianity is conforming oneself through the Spirit to the image of Jesus Christ. Don’t think this person has grasped that yet. She is desperately in need of salvation.


25 posted on 03/31/2019 7:50:44 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Yikes!


26 posted on 03/31/2019 7:52:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: lightman

Oh, THIS dyke again.


27 posted on 03/31/2019 7:52:51 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Army Air Corps

ROFL!!

VERY worried about that guy.

He popped on to say his blood glucose was like a THOUSAND!!

Then it went to the 400s but i’ve not seen a post from him since.

I mailed him just to check on him.

I’m Hoping he is fine and just didn’t hit me back.

I’ve NO PRIDE when it comes to someone’s life.


28 posted on 03/31/2019 7:54:12 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

Yeah, I read that thread. I hope that he is okay.


29 posted on 03/31/2019 7:58:18 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: yldstrk
I have no problem with what consenting adults do with one another as long as no one is injured.

You should when someone presents themselves as representing Christ!
30 posted on 03/31/2019 7:59:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Christianity is conforming oneself through the Spirit to the image of Jesus Christ.

The image of Christ is not one of tats and jewelry piercings.

Christ's image bears scars from what was inflicted by sinful men and piercings for our transgressions, absolutely.

But N B-W projects another image.

31 posted on 03/31/2019 8:00:01 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

“She is desperately in need of salvation.”

She is working for the Other Side.


32 posted on 03/31/2019 8:00:52 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: lightman

Just another bull dyke defending her perversion...


33 posted on 03/31/2019 8:04:12 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: lightman

her new drumbeat in Shameless that, so long as the sex we have is consensual and marked by mutual concern, we have nothing ever to be ashamed of?


What about the fallout of all this “guilt free” sex? What about the pregnancies outside of marraige? What about the betrayal of your spouse? What about the transmission of STDs?

Guilt-free sex has a lot of consequences. Most are not good.

All for a lack of self-discipline.


34 posted on 03/31/2019 8:04:13 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: lightman

“Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 19:28


35 posted on 03/31/2019 8:04:27 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: yldstrk

I have no problem with what consenting adults do with one another as long as no one is injured.


Yes.. that’s the rub...so very difficult to see into the future and make sure no one is injured...

As I have grown older, the injuries seem all the more obvious and multiform.


36 posted on 03/31/2019 8:06:14 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Fungi

I think you misspelled ‘butch’.


37 posted on 03/31/2019 8:08:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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“...the angst and humiliation churches have often foisted on them because of their sexual proclivities and behaviors”

Not one jot and tittle... Health laws are there for a reason. How many are taught health laws from the standpoint of health?


38 posted on 03/31/2019 8:16:33 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: yldstrk

Even if it frightens the horses?


39 posted on 03/31/2019 8:37:43 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: lightman

Sorry just another bullet in the head of churches

Any sex outside of a committed relationship and really a marriage is harmful to the soul and society

Promiscuousness is the devils playground

Child abuse sex abuse sexual slavery and everything like that are on the rise

It is beyond me to imagine how any man could ever have sex with a woman who does not want him

I simply cannot imagine it


40 posted on 03/31/2019 9:01:30 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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