We experience joy when we engage in creative pursuits, because we are sharing in the creative endeavor that God began and that we participate in. 

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I wonder if it’s OK for things to sometimes just be intuitive. Like, we just kind of get it that Christians should feed people and one another. In this scenario the theology is entirely embedded in the practice itself.

As the New Testament repeatedly affirms, we are all sinners in need of grace. Repentance doesn’t become, then, a dreaded conclusion but a grand redemption. We come to a place of meeting and seeing a God who refuses to leave us to ourselves, and who promises to walk with us as we make those amends and repair the world.

I still call myself gay. That tells you something true about who I love. I also call myself queer. That tells you something true about the God I follow. Not because queerness is the center of the Gospel. Christ is. But the Christ I know has always been found among the people the empire pushes to the margins.