Casey Chalk is the author of The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity (Emmaus Road Publishing), and The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands (Sophia Institute Press). …
For anyone who understands the principles underlying Protestant definitions and interpretations of Holy Scripture, radical pro-transgender Protestants should not be all that surprising.
Last year, NPR ran a story titled “Trans religious leaders say scripture should inspire inclusive congregations.” It cited Shannon TL Kearns, the first openly transgender man ordained in the heretical and schismatic “Old Catholic Church,” and the author of the book In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture. The article also quoted Lutheran theologian Austen Hartke, who believes that God “made” him “trans on purpose.” And it mentioned Baptist minister Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, who believes the Jesus of the New Testament endorses her inhabiting a “nonbinary body, a trans body,” according to her book Body Becoming. …
