Blessed by queerness
Luke 8: 26-39 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE June 22, 2025 Photo of an apartment building with multiple red bi-fold doors. Above the doors are large capital letters painted in yellow with black shading that read "Love is the running towards". Maybe you’ve heard the one about how most stories begin with “Once upon a time”, but a story from the American South begins with “Y’all ain’t gonna believe this one!” Well, believe this story. Because we’re all in it. Most stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This story of Jesus and the Gerasene man who had demons is only the middle of the story. We don’t know how this man came to be living in the tombs, naked and isolated. We don’t really know what became of him after he was healed. We don’t even know which came first: the demons or the isolation? Was he banished because demons lived in him or was he shunned for some other reason and after so many years of solitary confinement the demons took up reside...
