![]() ![]() PRICHEP: Sometimes the change is as easy as a sign on a bathroom door, and sometimes it's harder. PRICHEP: Buckley says that's part of living out the Bible's message.īUCKLEY: For me, as a nonbinary person, I've been to so many churches where they don't have a bathroom that I feel like I can use, and so I'll just not go to the bathroom there. ![]() And so having those things say, no, you're actually wanted here, and we're excited that you're here. PRICHEP: Buckley's church, like many, has made changes, putting pronouns on nametags, preaching to siblings in Christ instead of brothers and sisters.īUCKLEY: Sometimes, we will say God loves you but then not live that out in the church always. The Reverend AJ Buckley is associate rector.Ī J BUCKLEY: I speak to you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And the stories that are told on any given Sunday, like at Saint David of Wales Episcopal Church in Portland, Ore. ![]() Deena Prichep explains.ĭEENA PRICHEP, BYLINE: Theology is stories - the stories written millennia ago by people trying to figure out their relationship with the divine. But some other Christians are using sacred texts to come to a different conclusion, highlighting the presence of characters who defy traditional gender roles. They say God separated humans into males and females, and those categories are innate and immutable. Many evangelical Christians have pointed to the Bible as the reason they oppose transgender rights. ![]()
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