A year after his death, Peter Gomes still inspires. Irie and I saw him preach at Duke in January of 2006, just before we moved to Vermont. While in Vermont, The Good Book gave me the courage to speak my conscience on gays in the church. I wrote him and said so.
In homage, I will borrow a story from Gomes tomorrow in my Ash Wednesday homily.
My favorite quote from this interview: "It's much easier coming out as a homosexual, than it is a conservative."
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