Paul Zahl: Rock Lobster

People still come up to me and ask, “Why did you get in such a lather over the events of the last General Convention? I thought you were all about Grace. But then you, and others who feel as you do, just got so… heavy all of a sudden.”

The question stays with me. What is and what really was the big deal about the approval of one man to a par­ticular diocese of the Church?

Here is what it was, and still is:
It was never about sexuali­ty as such. It is not about a behavior, nor about a predis­position. What it is about is anthropology, soteriology, and Christology. Those are big words. They are also big ideas. .

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