Shamelessly stealing from my friend Bad Catholic, I'm a United Methodist with a somewhat liberal theology. Specifically, I want my church to be more inclusive of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered. Generally, I just want to help get God out of that Little Box some Christians want to shove him into.
I just don't know what to say about the horrible terrorist attacks in London, so I'll just point you to my friend Sarah Garrecht Gassen's excellent editorial in the Arizona Daily Star.
posted by Bad Methodist @ 8:29 AM
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I became a Christian when I was 19. I started out pretty run-of-the-mill conservative, but my theology has grown progressively more liberal the more I study the Bible. Here I might seem like a raving liberal, but politically I'm actually a moderate conservative. Although I'm straight, the death of Matthew Shepard, the existence of Fred Phelps, and two sermons on the same day from different preachers on the subject of standing in the way of hate combined into the two-by-four God used to call me into fighting for gay rights. The United Methodist Church's official stance is that "homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching," so I guess that makes me a bad Methodist.
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Like many of us here, I love London.
I have a close friend there much my junior, almost young enough to be my grandson. (We met on line, years ago.) The last time I was in London he and I took a long walk through the city at night.
It was warm - it must have been June - and the city glittered with lights. We walked onto a footbridge across the Thames and I stopped, enchanted. Looking out over the city, I said, "English has been spoken here for a thousand years."
Alex said, "English was invented here."
The city has been there for a very long time. That night we went to visit a wall built by the Romans, and I put my hand on one of the stones... Alex told me they'd found a packet of letters home, a packet that miscarried, from the Roman soldiers in London. Complaints about the climate, questions about how the kids back in Italy were doing... The people of London are deep-rooted and tough. New Yorkers think they're tough, and they are, but they don't have any points on Londoners.
My daughter in Britain advises me that the English, the most well-mannered of peoples, become very very tough when they have their backs to the wall. They're saying now, "London was bombed by experts (the Nazis). We're not going to get all upset by amateurs."
God protect London, and all of us.
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