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b'Happy Bisexuality Day!!!\\xa0\\nSo to celebrate that, let\\u2019s start today\\u2019s episode by answering a listener question from a bi woman. While she is in a great relationship with a straight man, she sometimes likes to look at pictures of naked women — which her partner finds healthy, by the way. Her concern stems from a Bible passage that says, \\u201cif you look at a woman in lust you’ve already committed adultery in your heart.\\u201d\\xa0 She adds: \\u201cBecause when I look at pictures of a woman’s boobs I don’t actually have any true desire to have sex with her, it’s just a moment of fantasy, and I don’t know if indulging in that fantasy is wrong.\\u201d\\nThen, we queer a very interesting text from Jonah in which you\\u2019ll see a petulant Jonah who God matched at being petty, too. We then call out those who have been against the LGTBQ community and have turned an abrupt 360 only after someone in their family comes out. We unpack so much in this episode so make sure you don\\u2019t miss it.\\xa0\\nKey takeaways:\\n\\nBrian\\u2019s update, still from New York City [0:37]\\nFr. Shay: Fall educational programming (weird) kick-off [3:52]\\nListener question from a bi woman [7:32]\\nTune in to the intentions of your divine insight [9:12]\\nConsent — is key [12:56]\\nThe transfigured course is now open and why Brian is excited about this course [13:08]\\nQueering the Bible: Jonah 3:10-4:11 [17:39]\\nWhy is this text a quirky story? [19:24]\\xa0\\nJonah and God being petty [22:05]\\nHow people are “wishy-washy” about LGBTQ folks [23:19]\\nWhat have you done to repair the harm you caused while you were on your journey? [25:40]\\nAsking the question: \\u201dIs your anger a good thing?\\u201d allows room for clarification [26:08]\\n\\nLink(s) mentioned in this episode:\\n\\nTransfigured: A Course in Trans Theology: queertheology.com/enroll\\nQueerTheology.com/community\\nIf you want to support the Patreon and help keep the podcast up and running, you can learn more and pledge your support at patreon.com/queertheology\\nIf you’d like to be featured in future episodes, email your question or Bible passage suggestion to connect@queertheology.com\\xa0\\nJonah 3:10-4:11\\nGod saw what they were doing\\u2014that they had ceased their evil behavior. So God stopped planning to destroy them, and he didn\\u2019t do it.\\nBut Jonah thought this was utterly wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord, \\u201cCome on, Lord! Wasn\\u2019t this precisely my point when I was back in my own land? This is why I fled to Tarshish earlier! I know that you are a merciful and compassionate God, very patient, full of faithful love, and willing not to destroy. At this point, Lord, you may as well take my life from me, because it would be better for me to die than to live.\\u201d\\nThe Lord responded, \\u201cIs your anger a good thing?\\u201d But Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city. There he made himself a hut and sat under it, in the shade, to see what would happen to the city.\\nThen the Lord God provided a shrub, and it grew up over Jonah, providing shade for his head and saving him from his misery. Jonah was very happy about the shrub. But God provided a worm the next day at dawn, and it attacked the shrub so that it died. Then as the sun rose God provided a dry east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah\\u2019s head so that he became faint. He begged that he might die, saying, \\u201cIt\\u2019s better for me to die than to live.\\u201d\\nGod said to Jonah, \\u201cIs your anger about the shrub a good thing?\\u201d\\nJonah said, \\u201cYes, my anger is good\\u2014even to the point of death!\\u201d\\nBut the Lord said, \\u201cYou \\u2018pitied\\u2019 the shrub, for which you didn\\u2019t work and which you didn\\u2019t raise; it grew in a night and perished in a night. Yet for my part, can\\u2019t I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred twenty thousand people who can\\u2019t tell their right hand from their left, and also many animals?\\u201d\\n\\n \\nPhoto by\\xa0Matthew Brodeur\\nThe post Is Your Anger a Good Thing? – Jonah 3:10-4:11 appeared first on Queer Theology.'