hear some thinking for me on this Saturday in October

Gender doctor speaks out on transsexuals returning to birth sex

An increasing number of people who have had surgery to live as the opposite sex, now want to re-embrace their birth sex, after experiencing severe depression and contemplating suicide, it has been revealed.

Prof Djordjevic criticised medical centres which rush into surgery for their own financial gain.

And he spoke out against moves to do gender reassignment procedures on under 18s:

“I’m afraid what will happen five to ten years later”, he said.

“She who is in Babylon greets you.”
What does Peter mean by that enigmatic phrase? Why does Peter end his letter by referring to some mysterious woman living in the once great
but now insignificant city of Babylon

Like Daniel and his pals Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, we have to figure out when to be willing to serve and when to refuse to bow. Sometimes we can serve with pride and pleasure, but other times we have to brave lion’s dens and fiery furnaces for the sake of fidelity to God.

Enemies? Love them.
Violence? Renounce it.
Money? Share it.
Foreigners? Welcome them.
Sinners? Forgive them.

These are the kind of radical ideas that will always be opposed by the principalities and powers, but which the followers of Jesus are called to embrace, announce, and enact