Posted on 03/21/2008 3:21:55 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
GRAND FORKS, N.D.—A lesbian priest says she wants to start a dialogue with church leaders after the Episcopal bishop of North Dakota refused her request for a license to minister in the state.
The Rev. Gayle Baldwin, 62, an associate professor of religion at the University of North Dakota, was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1980. She came out as a lesbian a decade ago in Wyoming, where she has a license to preach and administer the sacraments. She came to UND in 2000.
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Very nice timing, Professor Baldwin. On Good Friday. So nice of you.
Playing Church ping
Not good enough!! She has to prove she is also a lesbian in North Dakota.
LOL! You’re ruining it!
For the love of our dear Lord, let us not have pictures.
Since "a calling" is such a personal and subjective claim, it seems that it cannot be objectified. Therefore, shouldn't the process of "discernment" really be the church's finding of acceptability to the church of the individual and not the other way around?
OK, but here’s the title of a talk she gave on Rainbow Radio a few years ago:
A Gay Story with a Happy Ending, or, When Gay Folks Get Out of the Boat, Jesus Don’t Let Them Sink by The Rev. Gayle Baldwin (professor of religion at University of North Dakota and former Episcopal priest) (9:30)
Nobody would believe it.
I am SOOOOOO glad I swam the Tiber to worship with serious Christians, instead of remaining with these loony children playing church . . . .
There are no serious Christians on the other side of the Tiber? Only on your side?
Ichabod.
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/11085/
I found this interesting...
Okay... I get it!
Repent Professor Baldwin. Jesus died for your sins.
Great title, Gayle. We'll be holding our breath for the publication date.
If so she makes 4 so far.
Jesus weeps at the abomination.
It's so embarassing. It's worse than having voted for Jimmy Carter.
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An Episcopalian, I hope?
Yeah, that's what we were talking about, not the other . . . . yikes!
These days it's getting harder to tell the difference, as in the joke, Why can't Episcopalians play chess? They can't tell a bishop from a queen . . . .
Sounds more like she’s making demands than requests.
In the Wiccan church?
Gayle Baldwin ...
Interests: Teaching religion in a pluralist society; Contemporary Theologies; Christian theology and Queer Studies; Bakhtin
Select Research:
“From Sole Learning to Soul Learning.” Teaching Theology and Religion. Blackwell. vol. 9 no. 3
(2006), pp. 165-174.
“’What a Difference a Gay Makes!’ : Queering the Magic Negro.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 5, Fall, 2003 (Posted Fall 2004).
North Dakota Quarterly: Kristina K. Groover, ed. Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, forthcoming, Fall/Winter, 2005)
“Queering the Priestly Woman.” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, forthcoming.
Self-Publication: Trial edition of Not Your Momma’s Sunday School, text for Religion 100: Introduction to Religious Inquiry, Fall, 2005
Invited Speaker: 5th God & Sexuality Conference, Bard College, April 25-26, 2004
www.godandsexuality.org/gscupdates/gscupdate.html
“And the Bakht Goes On...: the dialogue of silence in Job”, The American Academy of Religion Bakhtin Group, November 2001.
Book Proposal under review:
2005 Baldwin, Gayle R. I Am Whosever: Religion Responses to the Murder of Sakia Gunn. Proposal under peer review for Palgrave/McMillan publishers.
Current Project
My project began two years ago when I began to explore the power of the religious imagination to either blind one from any new things God might want to do, or, if startled enough, become open to new things, new forms, new images. Last summer I spent a month in New York City with the Cross Currents colloquium and focused my project on the murder of Sakia Gunn and the spiritual and responses to that murder.
My present book project, Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh: Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and the Parabolic Narrative compares the religious and spiritual responses to the murders of Sakia Gunn and Matthew Shepard.
At the upcoming God and Sexuality seminar at Bard College in April, I will share some original pieces, poems, stories, etc. that come from both of these communities and sketch out some ways I see how these pieces are reflective of the way the religious imagination is shaped by race, gender and other factors.
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