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Today on Palm Sunday many LGBT people can relate to the hurt and humiliation that Jesus experienced on the cross. May this newsletter also call us to the new life promised by Easter.
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Gay Passion of Christ series starts today
  A gay vision of Christ's Passion starts today at the Jesus in Love Blog. New posts will run daily through Easter. The series includes all 24 paintings in Douglas Blanchard's "The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision," with new text by Kittredge Cherry and a short Bible passage. The paintings show Jesus as a contemporary gay man in a modern city. Your comments are strongly encouraged.Go to overview Go to Part 1(Credit: "Jesus Before the Priests" and "Jesus Before the Soldiers" by Douglas Blanchard) |
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New film covers gay Jesus play
 Jesus kisses a man behind the scenes at "Corpus Christi." Anti-gay religious groups meet "the gay Jesus play" in the new documentary film "Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption." It comes out in April after 5 years of filming. More info and movie trailer |
Biblical queens inspire LGBT writers
 Differences between Biblical queens Esther and Vashti inspire LGBT writers. Lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage imagines their love story in her play "Esther and Vashti," and Rev. David Bahr considers both queens as role models for gays and lesbians called to ordained ministry in his D.Min. paper. More info
(Credit: "Two Women in Scarves" from Schaver.com)
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Jesus heals gay centurion's boyfriend
 Jesus praised a gay soldier as a role model of faith and healed his male lover in the gospels, according to many Bible experts. Both Matthew 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10 tell how a centurion asked Jesus to heal the young man referred to in Greek as his "pais." The word commonly meant the younger man in a same-sex relationship. More info |
New queer Christ book published now
"From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ" by Patrick Cheng is available now. The much-anticipated book proposes 7 new models of sin and grace based on LGBT experience.
Cheng develops ideas that he presented at the Jesus in Love Blog in his popular series on "Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People." More info
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Easter offering for Jesus in Love
 Jesus in Love is collecting an Easter offering to support LGBT spirituality and the arts.
Give now by using PayPal to send money as a personal gift to kittcherry[at]aol.com Thank you! (Credit: "Glowing Golden Cross" by Chad Kainz) |
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Click to see recent highlights from the Jesus in Love
Blog:
In memory of Adrienne Rich, lesbian poet (1929-Mar 27, 2012)
John Boswell: Historian of gays and lesbians in Christianity
Queer women saints honored for Women's History Month
Friends to the end: Saints Perpetua and Felicity
Kuan Yin: A queer Buddhist Christ figure
Please visit the Jesus in Love Blog every day this week for my reflections on the gay Passion of Christ. Artist Doug Blanchard and I recently decided to do a book together based on this series, so I need your comments now. May you be inspired by how Jesus lived and loved!
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