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New
Ways
Ministry
Bridge
Building
program operated out of CAC: |
Under
the inspiration of Gramick’s 1996 “Gay and Lesbian Christians in the
Church” seminar at CAC, several people formed the Bridge Building
Community at CAC. According to
an article in Radical Grace, it
met over the next year to discuss, among other things, the scriptures that
are “used to declare homosexuality a sin against humanity and God.”
The
author says: “One such insight was that none of the scriptures
specifically spoke against homosexuality and in fact all of the scriptures
pointed to other acts deemed sinful, such as the lack of hospitality and
the practice of temple prostitution.” |
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a. March
1997 New Ways Ministry Symposium: presenter Fr. Rohr, “The Men’s
Movement: Homoeroticism and Homophobia.”
The talk detailed Rohr’s 5-day men’s retreat, “A Rite of
Passage.”
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An
extensive excerpt from this talk, describing a typical men’s “Rite of
Passage” in which men shed their clothes, jump naked over a bonfire, and
wrap the wounded members of their body in red tape.
Rohr
gives his “Rite of Passage” retreats around the world (in the excerpts
above, Rohr speaks about a “Rite of Passage” retreat in
Ireland
) |