The Social Justice Warrior's Gambit

I listened to this God-awful sermon so you didn't have to. Don't thank me, it was a labor of love.

Introduction

The practice of homosexuality is a sin… Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with a Christian lifestyle and since officers of the church must be “examples to the flock” the General Assembly go on record stating that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church does not condone the ordination of practicing homosexuals as Deacons, Elders or Ministers of Word and Sacrament.

- Statement on Homosexuality (adopted by the 2024 General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church)

What does it say about a denomination that has voted by a vast majority to make a public statement such as the one above, and then their one and only seminary invites a speaker who is described as a “womanist theologian” who is using “her gifts as author, activist, preacher, and public theologian toward creating an antiracist, just, gun violence free, fully welcoming, gender affirming society in which everyone has enough”? Strange, isn’t it?

That’s exactly what has happened. Memphis Theological Semi…