Thursday, June 26, 2008

Honor Moore's Memoir "The Bishop's Daughter"

Today might seem like a day where I'm beating a dead, gay horse, but here are several links related to a memoir that relates to the homosexual controversy in our church. Specifically, these links all have to do with Honor Moore's controversial new memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, about her father's hidden homosexual life while serving as Episcopal bishop of New York.

Here are several book reviews of her memoir and the controversy surrounding it: Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times,

And here are two excerpts from Moore's memoir: from The New Yorker and part of the prologue from Moore's website.

And here's an interview with Moore on The New Yorker website.

I read the excerpt from The New Yorker, and I found it to be more interesting in terms of the relationship between Moore and her father rather than her father's secret life, which should be expected since it is memoir. Still, it raises interesting questions for me: is it better to deny homosexuality exists in Christianity and have accompanying problems like the Catholic Church has? Or do we embrace people as they are even if it isn't the traditional form of Christian theology?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I read the article with a sinking feeling, that I knew what Ms. Moore was going to divulge. And there it was. I've been told that her father was a very good bishop.