Posts tagged love
Homily for a Queer Wedding
Homily for a Queer Wedding

My wife and I married on a Thursday night one May. Although the timing was strange (right in the middle of spring semester of my senior undergraduate year), the concluding line in our vows was not. It was a famous quotation from a Bible passage this is not uncommon in modern weddings: “Where you go I will go. Where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people. And your god, my god. And may God forbid anything coming in between this commitment we are making today…”

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Sermon ManuscriptEsther Loewenwedding, love, sermon, manuscript, bible, lesbianComment
unBeatitudes: Blessed are the Winners
unBeatitudes: Blessed are the Winners

This is the second post in a series dubbed "UnBeatitudes" - click here to read the first post of the series.

Blessed are the winners, for they will be celebrated. You're blessed if you haven't lost, if you now have what you always wanted, if your heart's desire has never been under threat - because you've never been forced to try to piece together a ramshackle after catastrophe. 

You're blessed if you've not suffered the emotional inconvenience of loss;

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ReflectionsEsther Loewenlove, unbeatitudes, suffering, hope, trauma, success, jesusComment