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.

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Tanti linguaggi, un solo Vangelo. Scoprire la luce in tempi di crisi

Video con trascrizione della meditazione biblica su Genesi 1,1-5 tenuta da Lidia Maggi* e Angelo Reginato* alla “3giorni.Tanti linguaggi, un solo Vangelo”  de La Tenda di Gionata (Albano Laziale, 13-15 giugno 2025) il 13 giugno 2025 In un tempo segnato da tante crisi – personali, sociali, ecologiche e spirituali – questa meditazione ci riporta all’inizio, alla prima pagina della Bibbia,...

Biblical meditations

The scandalous prophet: as Amos opens the divine horizon to LGBTQ people

Text by Walter Brueggemann*, published on the Outreach website (United States) on April 2, 2023. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. After the era of Moses, with his memory of the liberation, the audacity of Davide and the wealth of Solomon, the people of Israel had begun to believe they were the "elected people" who possessed an exclusive on the love and goodness of God ....

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Pietro surrenders to the spirit: good news for LGBT+ people

Reflections by Antonio De Caro*, partner de La Tenda di Gionata God taught me not to call any human being profane or impure (Acts 10.28): this was the verse chosen for the wakefulness of the year 2011. Several years have passed, yet this time too a verse was chosen that belongs to the same context of the New Testament: in truth I'm ...

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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 ...

Biblical meditations

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 ...