Category: Biblical meditations

To rediscover the words of the Old and New Testaments read and meditated by and for lesbian, gay and transgender people, also in light of their history of exclusion, to rediscover an "Inclusive Bible" of the lives of everyone, no one excluded . Because only in this way does the Word flourish and acquire meaning, finally free of the trappings in which we often decorate it so as not to really listen to it.

Biblical meditations

Maria, walking companion (Luke 1,26-38 Matteo 1,18-25)

Returning* by Mariella Colosimo of the Biblical Reflection meeting of the Word Group ... and words ** of 10 December 2024 we listened to this song many times, it is a bit like being faced with a picture, there are countless paintings that portray this scene ... The Annunciation, various styles, various colors, different the intensity, but the message is always the same: the girl of Nazareth ...

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A god compromised with the cursed (Marco 1,40-45)

Returning* by Mariella Colosimo of the Biblical Reflection meeting of the Word Group ... and words ** of 18 January 2025 in this episode of healing of the leper (Marco 1,40-45) affects me the determination with which Jesus tells the leper "I want it!". The lepers in Israel and in the logic of the Old Testament were excluded from society and religious sphere. Impure par excellence, considered "chastised by ...

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The biblical stories of a Torah in transition

Text by Joy Ladin* Published on LGBTQRELIGIOSOCHIARCIVES.ORG (United States). Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. For over two thousand years, the Jews have read the Torah (which refers to the five books of Moses who are part of the Jewish Bible, the Antico Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Levitic, Numbers and Deuteronomy), and every time they arrive at the end, they start again from the beginning. The words not ...

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How should we read the Bible?

Text based on the Q Christian Fellowship* site (United States), first part. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project, how should we read the Bible? Let's start with an anecdote: a young man knocks on the door of a great Talmud scholar. "Rabbi, I wish to study the Talmud." "Do you know the Aramaic?" "No." "The Hebrew?" "No." "Have you ever studied the Torah?" "No, Rabbi, but I graduated ...

Biblical meditations

Inclusion in biblical history

Text by Gene Robinson*, episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire (United States), taken from "Transgender Welcome: to Bishop Makes the case for Affirmation", published by the Center for American Progress, January 2016, freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project In the Jewish and Christian tradition there is a very clear trend: the history of faith is a story of growing inclusion. In...