Talking about Divorce in Church [Proper 22B]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Mark 10:2-16 Talking about Divorce in Church So, I don’t really want to talk about divorce. You probably don’t want to talk about divorce. Jesus doesn’t really want to talk about divorce, although folks won’t stop asking him about divorce in today’s Gospel, so he does. Nobody really wants to talk about divorce. But we talk about tough stuff here. So, I guess we’re talking about divorce today. It is difficult to talk about divorce in the Church because the Church has such a rotten history around the subject. Mostly the Church has been the place where folks going through a painful divorce go to add insult to injury. Historically, the Church has mostly indiscriminately condemned divorced persons, treating them like second-class members, barring them, in some cases, from even receiving the healing sacrament of Holy Communion. Sometimes, and in some places, the stigma in the Church is so inte...