Monday, October 29, 2007

Aligning Psyche and Sex: Methodists Meet to Evaluation Transgenderism, Starting with Baltimore Pastor

By Daniel Burke
Religion News Service
Saturday, October 20, 2007; Page B09

BALTIMORE

The Rev. Drew Phoenix is many things to many people.

To congregants of St. John's of Baltimore, he's the fun-loving pastor who counsels them, takes their children hiking, explains Scripture and plunges into worthy causes.

To conservative Methodists, Phoenix embodies another front in the culture wars: a rebel who has defied God and nature and should be removed from ministry.

To mainstream society, Phoenix is an enigma who transcends traditional sexual boundaries, provoking uncomfortable questions about the interplay between body, mind and soul.

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