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Title: Gender and the Pulpit
Post by: LostInTime on January 24, 2007, 07:03:10 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 24, 2007, 07:03:10 AM
Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16774861/site/newsweek/)
At the heart of almost every conversation that occurred during the conference was this: how does a person who chooses to live "with permanent gender ambiguity," as one handout put it, also participate as a leader in an institution as traditional as religion?
Groundbreaking conference gathers transgender Christian advocates (http://www.abpnews.com/1632.article)
"Transgender people of faith have a valuable perspective on our national obsession with gender. They have struggled with the unreasonable demands for conformity inherent in our collective life yet have been able to discover a place of personal integrity," said Erin Swenson, a transgender Presbyterian minister who spoke at the conference, according to a press release from organizers. "They have come to understand the balance between divine creation and the ongoing responsibility that each of us has for our own self-creation."
At the heart of almost every conversation that occurred during the conference was this: how does a person who chooses to live "with permanent gender ambiguity," as one handout put it, also participate as a leader in an institution as traditional as religion?
Groundbreaking conference gathers transgender Christian advocates (http://www.abpnews.com/1632.article)
"Transgender people of faith have a valuable perspective on our national obsession with gender. They have struggled with the unreasonable demands for conformity inherent in our collective life yet have been able to discover a place of personal integrity," said Erin Swenson, a transgender Presbyterian minister who spoke at the conference, according to a press release from organizers. "They have come to understand the balance between divine creation and the ongoing responsibility that each of us has for our own self-creation."