Join John Loughery on Sunday, March 15th after the 10:00 am worship Service for a talk that will focus on the critical perspectives and outright prohibitions against same-sex intimacy in the Old and the New Testament. He will present a survey of the ways in which different progressive priests, ministers, theologians, and people of faith have reinterpreted these passages in books published over the last fifty years, ending with a recommendation of a recent and highly original examination of the subject, The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story by Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays (Yale University Press, 2024).
John Loughery is the author of several award-winning and New York Times Notable books, including John Sloan: Painter and Rebel (a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Biography), The Other Side of Silence: Men’s Lives and Gay Identities, and Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America. A native of New Britain, CT, he lived for many years in New York City, where he was a teacher, art critic for The Hudson Review, and book reviewer for The Washington Post. He now lives in Berlin, CT.