// love is patient, love is kind, but let's be honest: love is a catalog of deadly sins //

[hermionesviolin]

So, I'm reading Susan Wendell's The Rejected Body, and she talks about the social and cognitive authority the medical profession has in our society -- including how the "objective" third-person Authority gets privileged over (and against) subjective lived reality (e.g., regardless of your experience of bodily suffering, we tend to think there's

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[eponis]

Have you read "Just Love," by Margaret Farley?

If you haven't (and if I haven't rambled about this before!), I think you would find a lot to enjoy or think about in it. She's a lesbian Catholic sister (nun?) who teaches at Yale Divinity, and it's a book that works to do exactly what you're describing -- go beyond saying "it's okay to be gay and Christian" and really think intensively about what a Christian sexual ethic could be, in a way that (iirc) was very sensitive about different genders, sexualities, and types of relationships.

[hermionesviolin]

I just checked my GoodReads, and I have it on my To Read list thanks to a previous recommendation from you. Thanks for the reminder :)

[hermionesviolin]

I feel like most of the low church Protestant churches just have the 2 -- with the higher church denominations having the Catholic 7 -- but I have such a low sacramental theology that I never keep track because I feel like none of them are sacraments, not in and of themselves, though of course any of them (along with any number of other things) can be outward signs of an inward grace.