Duke Divinity School is affiliated with the
United Methodist Church,....so it was the perfect
place for a recent “Pride worship service” in which participants offered
prayers to “the Great Queer One.”
Master of Divinity (M.Div) student Caroline Camp kicked things off, and
set the tone for the proceedings, with a prayer to the “strange one,
fabulous one, fluid, and ever-becoming one,” and the “drag queen, and
transman, and gender-fluid.”
Another M.Div student, Tirzah Villegas, declared: “You are never called
to abandon yourself. Abandoning the self is negating the truth of who
you are, and that is always a lie.”
Now, just a minute: Duke Divinity
School is supposed to be a Christian school, at least vestigially, and I
seem to remember someone involved with Christianity saying “If any man
would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and
follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever
loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:24-25). But the one
who spoke those words is not someone who appears to get much traction
at Duke Divinity." PJMedia
