{"id":2858,"date":"2024-02-27T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:01:39","slug":"queerness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/queerness\/","title":{"rendered":"Queerness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In a traditional Christian context, an &#8220;apology&#8221; isn&#8217;t saying &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; for something. In its most basic sense, Christian apologetics refers to a systematic discourse. Even further, it means that an alternative view of a topic is offered in an organized fashion, and as an intellectual defense of a particular theological truth (without being argumentative). It is with this in mind, that the following &#8220;apology&#8221; is offered in response to the homophobia which remains prevalent in many countries and cultures.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-two-churches wp-block-embed-two-churches\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WCCHltBHq3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/queerness_by_rev_mike_wernick\/\">&#8220;Queerness&#8221; &#8211; by the Rev. Mike Wernick<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;Queerness&#8221; &#8211; by the Rev. Mike Wernick&#8221; &#8212; Two Churches\" src=\"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/queerness_by_rev_mike_wernick\/embed\/#?secret=rN8OaC1gsP#?secret=WCCHltBHq3\" data-secret=\"WCCHltBHq3\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a traditional Christian context, an &#8220;apology&#8221; isn&#8217;t saying &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; for something. In its most basic sense, Christian apologetics refers to a systematic discourse. Even further, it means that an alternative view of a topic is offered in an organized fashion, and as an intellectual defense of a particular theological truth (without being argumentative). It is with this in mind, that the following &#8220;apology&#8221; is offered in response to the homophobia which remains prevalent in many countries and cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twochurches.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}