If he’s really changed his mind, he’s got some explaining to do, especially to us in the queer community who have been harmed physically, mentally, socially, materially and spiritually by biblical (mis)interpretations and theologies of exclusion and condemnation.
The insidious and chronic nature of church sexual abuse is an outgrowth of patriarchal concepts of the divine that provide theological cover for abusers and shame for their victims, said the authors of a new book on theologies of abuse.
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Rev. Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Rev. Susan M. Shaw, authors of the new book "Surviving God: A New Vision of God through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors"