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In today\u2019s episode, we answer a question from our listener – Charlie, who asked how to live as a gay person and still be Christian? How do you live your life as a queer person without having to constantly rationalize your life against the Bible and what it says about gay folks?\nWe also take a look at a Bible passage that we haven\u2019t covered before. We\u2019re very excited to queer this text from 2 Peter 1:16-21. We are reminded by this passage that we are ALL called to do this ministry. That while the physical form of Jesus is gone, the work and movement remain. And it is our responsibility to continue to do the work.\nEpisode TranscriptBrian: Welcome to the Queer Theology podcast!\nFr. Shay: Where each episode, we take a queer look at the week\u2019s lectionary readings. We\u2019re the co-founders of QueerTheology.com and the hosts for this podcast. I\u2019m Father Shay Kearns\nB: And I\u2019m Brian G. Murphy.\nHello, hello, hello and welcome back. Today is Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 the year just will not quit. Welcome back to the Queer Theology podcast we’re so glad to have you here. Shay, how are you doin?\nFS: I’m good! I’m really good. You know, truckin’ along with the winter and all of that kind of stuff, but…\nB: Familiar!\nFS: Yes! Something I’ve been, I’m obsessed with this new band called Bonny Light Horseman. It’s Ana\xefs Mitchell who is the writer of Hadestown, joined with a couple of other folk musicians to re envision really, really old traditional songs…\nB: Cool!\nFS: …re-invent and re-record them. I started listening to their album, it came out right before I made my trip to L.A. so I was listening to on the plane. And it is just gorgeous. In a couple places they mash-up a couple of traditional songs and it weaves around — I’m obsessed with it. If you like Ana\xefs Mitchell, you’ll love this album. If you’re just interested in folk music, it’s high quality. So I’m jazzed about having some new music. I find that that gets me through the winter. [laughter] Having new things to listen to and inspire me is really helpful, so that’s been something that’s been good in my life lately. What about you?\nB: Oh my goodness! I recently went to this thing called Beyonc\xe9 Mass which one of my friends from college developed with this seminary professor and some other students from one of their seminary classes. It’s a womanist worship service, how black women find their voice, represent the image of God, and create spaces for liberation. It was possibly the most profound experience I’ve ever had in my entire life. They used all music by Beyonc\xe9 or Destiny Child or soundtrack as worship music. And a lot of Beyonc\xe9’s music is very spiritual and talks about the image of the IM and the spirit. It was incredible. So the combination of beautiful music, just phenomenally performed by this amazing band, and choir, and quintet of singers, and the visuals, and they served communion and the sermon about community, and dreams, and vision was phenomenal. It was just like so incredible, and jazzed, and I wept a number of times and my boyfriend, who grew up Christian but no longer goes to church turned to me afterward and was like, “If church was always like this, sign me back up!” It was just really, really cool and I am honored to have gotten to go and be a part of it. It was really cool to be able to meet some of the folks that started it, and had a vision for this, and called this forth to live out of an idea. It started at the church that my friend was an intern in San Francisco, but has since gone to churches and colleges around the country, and wants to live in Portugal. So I don’t know if they have any more scheduled anywhere else, but if you’re interested you can go to Beyonc\xe9Mass.com to see some pics and learn some more, but it’s just a really, really, really, really cool. I can’t stop thinking about