Conversations with "St." Paul the Homosexual: Owning Our Shadows and Healing Deep Within

Our sexuality is not "sinful" as my gay and lesbian friends have been labeled, and for which, they have been severely and falsely condemned. Rather, our sexuality is part of our Divinity, whether gay or not. Paul had what he described as a "thorn in the flesh," but he never said what that was. No writer included in the collection of letters that the church claims to be "god's word" is as judgmental, condemning, or negative than was Paul. No other writer betrays Jesus' teachings as does Paul. Why? What was he hiding? Was all his "sin focus" coming out of his own pain of being condemned for what he was sexually? Was he trapped in what he could not change about himself? Was his penchant for negative statements about others, just his own projections to shift his feelings of guilt? I say yes! Paul's "shadow" was not his sexuality. His shadow was the repression of his Divine Self and the result of not being able to transform it--as it with each of us. Because of all this, he became the Christian Church's favorite writer, as they replaced Jesus with a theology of "Sin and Judgment." Come along with me as I "interview" Saul, Paul, and then "St." Paul. Our own healing deep within awaits our taking the journey into our own Shadows. Beyond judgment and shame, our Divinity awaits our call to bring it forth and shine as Light in the world.