quipped, when asked about homosexuality, that he did not think God was concerned about what we did behind the closed doors of our bedrooms. The notion that we can close a door and thereby exclude ourselves from the concerns of God is antithetical to the biblical narrative of the God who created us as embodied souls, who draws us into loving relationship with himself as the God who gave us our bodies as well as our souls, who demonstrates his commitment to the body in the raising of Jesus from the
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