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First Things Podcast

Queer Theology

First Things Podcast

First Things

Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, John Murawski joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent article “Queering Jesus: How It's Going Mainstream Progressive Churches and Top Divinity Schools.” Music by Advent Chamber Orchestra via Creative Commons.

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0:00.0

Hello there. This is Mark Bauerline with another conversation. Before we get to it, a word about one of our sponsors.

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Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

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an accredited four-year Great Books Institution, is built on the ancient Western tradition

0:28.3

of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.

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The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition,

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the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic tradition, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness,

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and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church. Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect through the great books and traditional disciplines, literature and

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philosophy, mathematics and theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none.

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The college celebrated an in-person graduation with its seniors last year

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and welcomed its largest freshman class ever this year. Learn more about the college's unique

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space in the world of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu.

1:06.9

John Moroski is with us today. He's an investigative reporter for real clear investigations.

1:12.8

He had a story last month on a subject that I thought would interest our listeners. It has a long

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title, his article, that is, Queering Jesus, How It's Going Mainstream at Progressive Churches

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and Top Divinity Schools. That is our topic today. Welcome,

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Mr. Moroski. Thank you very much. Glad to be on. Now, first, what brought you to this

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phenomenon in the first place? Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I follow, you know,

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the topic of wokeness and related subjects online, and I started seeing

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this video went viral of this minister in Iowa, praying to the God of pronouns, the great

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queer one.

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And I thought, well, that's really interesting.

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And I just started looking into it a little bit, and I noticed that this wasn't the only church,

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