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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

You had me at “Peter Marshall is dead.” What a beautifully heretical eulogy for the funeral no one in seminary dared to throw.

This isn’t just a call for reformation—it’s an autopsy of a corpse everyone’s too polite to admit is rotting in the pulpit. And I say that as someone who once wore the robes, memorized the Greek, and kept silent while the pews emptied and the Spirit slipped out the back door.

Thank you for daring to say what most clergy whisper over coffee: the institution is collapsing not because the world changed, but because the church refused to.

Looking forward to where you take this. Some of us are still clinging to the rubble with resurrection in mind.

—Virgin Monk Boy

Excommunicated for Excessive Honesty, Ordained by the Algorithm, Still Kicking

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Rebecca Carr's avatar

I think one of the things that led to the decline of the mainline churches is that their leadership embraced diversity, particularly of sexual orientation, and a lot of people wouldn’t accept it and left. I have been blessed in the Lutheran church (ELCA) by gay and lesbian clergy and lay people sharing their gifts, but have had fellow congregants who have been very averse to their participation, not so much recently as in the period 10-20 years ago.

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