Today we continue our discussion of bible scholar Walter Brueggemann’s advocacy of LGBTQ+ in the household of faith. Professor Brueggemann died earlier this month. Brueggemann would point out a story from the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. The Apostle Peter had raised objections to eating food that, according to the purity codes, is unclean; thus, he adheres to the rigor of the priestly codes. His objection, however, is countered by “a voice” that he takes to be divine. Three times that voice came to Peter amid his vigorous objection and said to him:“What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”
