<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">It’s there in dark mode. Tap cursor on it as I did. Hope that’s effective.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 4, 2025, at 3:03 PM, Richard Alton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">me to</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM Bill Schlesinger via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-553467085775715698"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-553467085775715698WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Nothing else came through…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bill Schlesinger<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> OE <<a href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>W. J. via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 4, 2025 10:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@wedgeblade.net</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> W. J. <<a href="mailto:synergi@yahoo.com" target="_blank">synergi@yahoo.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] Christian Faith and LGBTQ+ Experience lectur<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">For thousands of years, Christian and Jewish and Muslim orthodoxy has demonized Queer life experience, specifically the gift of human sexuality that was considered "deviant" or worse.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Rev. JJ Warren, a "young prophet" in United Methodism who was a bright light at our last two General Conferences, is now teaching at Colgate Rochester Seminary while he finishes his Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">[Colgate, BTW, was JWM's first teaching gig back in the 1940's.]<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Today's live Zoom lecture entitled "Queerly Made: From Death-dealing to Life-giving Theologies" will explore how he is 'constructing' a Queer theological reading of Christian tradition and of scripture.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Warning:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white"> I doubt that the good Christian folks over at MAGA World would want you to know this! <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">So let's not tell them.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Marshall Jones<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">**********<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">FREE webinar hang out with Rev. <span class="m_-553467085775715698ydp5980b075yiv9165205138ydpc619f71fyiv4724097272ydpadb4b927yiv1132332810ydp4fd14369html-span"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id%3D100003160561549%26__cft__%5B0%5D%3DAZUP8UvbgNLOxaov6HgEViouXe1i0xYJfe82nKQuSU8RdHA_RGlyOdiECQt6N3ZF4QYeRT03FxlyP8TavUZNl3QLcOyrFpKP2MW-RManjwB4S_tApHbw9haVPFD_XFF8bRtmJDTjGMlMUn42twW7NsaQaVa0Fu4HAi5DZuSAe5YaCCLMWFgAjqh1MJb6p8hMY68%26__tn__%3D-%5DK-y-R&source=gmail-imap&ust=1741713353000000&usg=AOvVaw2-qGu4pF22AU-LECE3PFNY" target="_blank"><span class="m_-553467085775715698ydp5980b075yiv9165205138ydpc619f71fyiv4724097272ydpadb4b927yiv1132332810ydp4fd14369xt0psk2"><span style="color:white;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">JJ Warren</span></span></a></span> tonight! Link in the comments to register! (Tuesday, 3/4, 7pm Eastern, via Zoom)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Rev. Warren's talk this semester for our Christian Faith and LGBTQ+ Experience lecture is titled, "Queerly Made: From Death-dealing to Life-giving Theologies." He is planning to invite participants to reflect on aspects of their own theologies and faith traditions that have shamed, silenced, and harmed parts of themselves as well as the full diversity of persons within the LGBTQIA+ community. He'll then invite participants to queer — i.e., to subvert and reclaim — narratives, practices, and traditions that foster "abundant life" (Jn 10:10). <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">AND! Special treat: Rev. Warren will debut his current dissertation research, which considers how theology itself is constructed or "made," and how insights from gender and sexuality can inform life-giving re-makings of theology. In other words, how is/could theology (be) queerly made? <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Rev. JJ Warren is a public theologian, advocate, and the author of two books: Reclaiming Church: A Call to Action for Religious Rejects, and Where Two or Three are Connected: Being the Church in This New Era. After making an impassioned plea for the inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons at The United Methodist Church’s (UMC) top law-making assembly in 2019, Rev. J.J.’s speech went viral, and his advocacy has been covered by HuffPost, NBC, Brut Media, and WXXI Radio.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white">Register to join us!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-553467085775715698ydp5980b075yiv9165205138ydpc619f71fyiv4724097272ydpadb4b927yiv1132332810ydp4fd14369html-span"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://crcds-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5OqAc0IYTSaD26CZBuASRQ?fbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1LWmsamSJLfJqQrnvCQwT4204T2N_EOJuQgK-7XDcMjUeMUl6FlIxfZHI_aem_O3UNsbOsl9yhRND7SxP7xw%23/registration&source=gmail-imap&ust=1741713353000000&usg=AOvVaw3-XHti2VVRucDR12bYXuJU" target="_blank"><span style="color:white;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">https://crcds-edu.zoom.us/.../WN_5OqAc0IYTSaD26CZBuASRQ...</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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