Posted on 03/07/2025 2:18:37 PM PST by Morgana
utheran School of Theology at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the main seminaries of the decrepit and apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). In 2023, the school had a yearly endowment of $48. 5M and 121 students, nearly all of them goatlings headed to hell.
Yesterday, the seminary held a Glitter + Ash worship service, linking to a primer on Queer Virtue, which states:
Glitter is an inextricable element of queer history. It is how we have always displayed our gritty, scandalous hope. We make ourselves fabulously conspicuous, giving offense to the arbiters of respectability that allow coercive power to flourish.
Glitter+Ash is an inherently queer sign of Christian belief, blending symbols of mortality and hope, of penance and celebration.
Naturally, this event prompted both positive and negative feedback from current students and alumni.
The pushback also resulted in a statement from Chapel Director Dr. Christian Scharen, who explains:
“We are offering traditional ashes, the result of burning palms from a previous Palm Sunday, mixed with cosmetic-grade glitter, for the imposition of ashes. Our offering of this service is in deep alignment with our status as a Reconciling in Christ Seminary, and with the recent LSTC Board-approved faculty statement supporting our Queer and Trans siblings in the current culture of hostility in our nation. Please do reach out for further conversation as I am not on social media.”
During the service, the Dr. Karri Alldredge explains the purpose of the event:
It is an important act, especially on Ash Wednesday, that we take a moment to name that harm has been done to our community around this service. It’s an important practice that we begin engaging here to publicly name when harm is done against marginalized communities and especially our queer communities who just had to witness last night in very public, political, social ways the attempts to erase and demonize, especially our trans and non-binary siblings.
And so, in the process of naming, also calling us to reaffirm our commitment to one another as the body of Christ, our commitment to queerness, to queer theology that says spaces like this are beautiful gatherings of community where we get to try new things, where we get to examine traditions, theologies that we have always held as fact and truth often truth for those who are in power.
To ask, what does it mean to expand our theologies, to expand our understanding of God in this space that we will carry out into other spaces to ask, for whom Ash Wednesday? Well, a reminder of the cross is often sometimes doubly a reminder of shame and sin put upon queer communities.
What does it mean to hold stardust, to hold glitter, to hold resilience of queerness alongside the solemnness, the importance, the cherished space, the solemn space of Ash Wednesday within our community.
So I ask that we continue to recommit ourselves as we move into this Lenten season to publicly affirming our queer siblings, our other marginalized siblings, and that we work to stand with one another in our collective work towards justice, God’s love and that we do that today in wearing, in imposing our glitter and ash. Thank you.
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Need to invite their muzzie brethren to these events too.
It frightens me that anyone would mock our Creator so openly.
Jesus spike more of Hell than Heaven.
You think they would learn.
I think that Ash Wednesday is about the recognition of our sinfulness and mortality and our need to repent.
But I guess if you add glitter, then it just means “Butt sex is great!”
I didn’t leave the ELCA, they left me long ago.
NOTE. ELCA. The leftist Lutherans. Not us conservative Missouri Synod Lutherans..
The Muzzies would at least kill them all!
Words fail me.
Do a back flip !!!!!
Lift high the glitter,
the love of queer proclaim
Till all the world adore the sacred gays
But I’ll try.
The essential core of all religious experience is humility.
The season of Lent is the highest expression in the Christian experience.
It is not a time to glorify your sick narcissism.
That is profoundly offensive, and a repudiation of everything that Lent means.
You are right!
I used to be a proud member of the old Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and attended classes and services at Harvard Divinity School led by such luminaries as Krister Stendahl. But the merger that created the ELCA resulted in a more and more leftist and LGBT-infested “church”, headed by a priestess who preaches universalism, among many other heresies. Even Stendahl ended up supporting “gay” clergy!
Then we discovered the Serbs, and became Orthodox. The rest of you should investigate Orthodox Christianity in person (not just by reading) as well!
“Glitter Ash Wednesday” is a contradiction in terms!
As Michael savage once said, “GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY!!!”
I took some classes at the old AELC (one of the predecessors
of the ELCA) seminary in St. Louis forty years ago. I was a Methodist at the time, and therefore not used to much solid theology, so I was impressed with the theological integrity I found there. I have always been astounded at how quickly the ELCA has rotted out. But then I did some research on the later careers of my teachers, some of whom wound up in Chicago, and found that some of them led the way for the ELCA turning out the way it has. That is astounding too, and disappointing.
Modernizing and embracing the values of a lost world is a deadly mistake.
Faggz just gotta do the faggotry.
Ashes?
Humility?
Repentance? Of what? They don’t believe in sin, so they think they do not need a Savior. They are in for a very, very, very painful surprise.
Yes. It’s sacrilege.
The churches that took a wrong turn and ended up in the ditch will be dealt with.
They're trying to turn Ash Wednesday into Ass Wednesday. God called it abomination and nuked a few cities to prove the point. "The Lord made Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve" as one evangelist put it.
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