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b'This week\\u2019s lectionary text is one of Jesus\\u2019 weird parables. Brian and Fr. Shay share their ideas on what it means for queer people to be the stones that the builders rejected. The Kingdom of God belongs to those who bear good fruit so what does that mean for the queer and trans community?\\nMatthew 21:33-43\\n\\u201cListen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.\\n\\u201cThe tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. \\u2018They will respect my son,\\u2019 he said.\\n\\u201cBut when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, \\u2018This is the heir. Come, let\\u2019s kill him and take his inheritance.\\u2019 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.\\n\\u201cTherefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?\\u201d\\n\\u201cHe will bring those wretches to a wretched end,\\u201d they replied, \\u201cand he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.\\u201d\\nJesus said to them, \\u201cHave you never read in the Scriptures:\\n\\u2018The stone the builders rejected\\nhas become the cornerstone;\\nthe Lord has done this,\\nand it is marvelous in our eyes\\u2019[a]?\\n\\u201cTherefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.\\nPhoto by Al_HikesAZ\\nThe post The Kingdom Is Ours \\u2013 Matthew 21:33-43 appeared first on Queer Theology.'