Church confirms drag queen for ordination: The urgency and power of personal morality
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A Methodist church recently confirmed a gay man who is also a drag queen as a candidate for ordained ministry. In The Daily Article for May 3, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison discusses this story, explores the question of whether President Biden should be able to receive communion, describes the urgency of personal morality for our public witness, and closes with three steps to transforming holiness.
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| 1:12.2 | for Monday, May the 3rd, 2021. The title is, Church confirms drag queen for ordination, |
| 1:18.7 | the urgency and power of personal morality. A gay man who is also a drag queen was recently |
| 1:25.5 | confirmed by a Methodist Church in Illinois as a candidate for ordained |
| 1:29.6 | ministry. He wore wigs and full makeup while participating in his church's Drag Sunday in April. |
| 1:37.0 | Another Hillsong pastor resigned last week after sharing explicit photos on social media. |
| 1:42.8 | A Southern Baptist pastor in North Carolina resigned after |
| 1:46.0 | being arrested and charged with child pornography. And Josh Dugger, a former star of the television |
| 1:52.3 | series 19 Kids and Counting, and a very public Christian, appeared in court last Friday after he was |
| 1:58.2 | arrested and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. |
| 2:02.2 | Though he pleaded not guilty, he has confessed to adultery and viewing pornography in the past. |
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