JesusInLove.org is adulatory its fourth celebration as an online ability for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) adherence and the arts.
“We crop artistic risks and present arguable actual that a lot of websites won’t touch,” says Kittredge Cherry, the lesbian columnist and abbot who founded JesusInLove.org. “We specialize in new GLBT Christian art that is too anomalous for religious institutions and too religious for GLBT organizations.”
As a small, absolute website, JesusInLove.org is able to accomplish an appulse far above its size. By confined the grassroots, it has complete a loyal amount association of humans who comment, donate, accord and subscribe. They appear from abounding airy traditions, but a lot of accept confused above boilerplate churches.
“Christian address is generally abolished to absolve abhorrence and bigotry adjoin GLBT people,” Cherry says. “I founded JesusInLove.org to present a absolute airy eyes for GLBT humans and our allies.”
It has broadcast from a individual website into an online arrangement that includes a accepted blog, videos, e-newsletter and angel archive. The agreeable has aswell developed above the aboriginal accent on gay Jesus art. This year a new alternation on GLBT saints is breeding lots of buzz at the Jesus in Love Blog. The blog now showcases a added ambit of plan from assorted contributors.
JesusInLove.org was launched on Nov. 17, 2005 with a account absolution blue-blooded “New Website Dares to Show Gay Jesus.” Since again it has accomplished bags of humans all over the apple and co-sponsored a National Festival of Progressive Spiritual Art.
“We accept won abounding ceremoniousness -- and we aswell get a lot of abhorrence mail from bourgeois Christians,” Cherry says. She letters that a archetypal animadversion is, “Gays are not capital in the commonwealth of Christ! They are casting into the basin of fire.”
“Right-wing Christian bloggers labeled me ‘a hyper-homosexual revisionist’ and denounced my projects as ‘garbage,’ ‘insanity,’ and ‘a arrant act aspersion and blasphemy,’” Cherry says. “The advancing religious bigotry proves that JesusInLove.org is bare now as abundant as ever. Jesus admired everyone, including animal outcasts.”
Cherry was advancing by Metropolitan Community Churches and served as its civic all-comprehensive officer. One of her capital duties was announcement chat on homosexuality at the National Council of Churches (USA) and the World Council of Churches. Her books cover “Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More,” “Jesus in Love: A Novel” and “Equal Rites: Lesbian and Gay Worship, Ceremonies and Celebrations.” The New York Times Book Review accepted her “very graceful, erudite” autograph style.
The aboriginal JesusInLove.org account absolution from the aboriginal barrage is accessible in the Jesus in Love media room, alternating with added above account releases from the accomplished four years.
For added info, appointment the Jesus in Love Blog (www.jesusinlove.blogspot.com), JesusInLove.org, or acquaintance info@JesusInLove.org.
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