From The Chicago Consultation-“On Sexuality and Scripture” includes scholarly essays, Bible studies and personal reflections
In 2011, at the height of divisions in the Anglican Communion over same-sex relationships, a group of Anglicans from Africa and Episcopalians from the United States gathered in Durban, South Africa to read and discuss the Bible together.
Called together by the Chicago Consultation and the Ujamaa Centre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, most shared a conviction that the sacred Scriptures of the Christian faith were being misused as cudgels by church leaders and politicians who sought to criminalize same-sex relationships and exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people from fully participating in the life of the church.
From that meeting, and subsequent gatherings in Limuru, Kenya in 2013 and Elmina, Ghana in 2015 comes “On Sexuality and Scripture,” a book from Church Publishing Incorporated that challenges narrow, punitive readings of Scripture and makes the case that LGBTI people are beloved children of God who desire they be loved, honored and respected.
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http://www.chicagoconsultation.org/?p=257
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