MCC Toronto is a “vibrant and progressive church rooted in the Christian tradition and the 2SLGBTQ+ community” that is “open and welcoming to everyone, and a Human Rights Centre that is fiercely committed to social justice,” at least according their website.
Led by “non-binary” impastor Rev. Deana Dudley, “transgendered woman” Rev. Junia Joplin, and a cadre of three-pronouned assistants, they run the joint with the full blessing of Satan, who has most assuredly taken up residence in the hearts in the minds of the congregation.
Here is a portion of the “sermon”…
“I do not like the concept of Christ the King Sunday, and I really don’t want to preach on it. And the reason is, that it has traditionally gotten preached as a kind of a victory over all our enemies, militaristic kind of thing.
And I think A), that has no relationship whatsoever with the notion of unconditional love that I believe is at the heart of the gospel. And B), Jesus would be utterly horrified to be worshiped in that kind of way. And C), that kind of militaristic bullshit has absolutely no place in church.
So it has no place, and I dislike it because it leads to all kinds of evil crap like Christian nationalism, which I declare to be a heresy, which also leads to all kinds of evil divisive crap like racism and colonialism, for which the church at large really needs to repent. Are you all awake now?
You know what happens sometimes? Sometimes a preacher looks at the liturgical texts and thinks, I am not going to go there. And then they keep on reflecting, and it keeps on bugging us. And eventually we go there.
So here I am, and here’s my thought on Christ the King Sunday. I can’t do it.”
Rev. Deana Dudley, Metropolitan Community church Toronto
In November of this last year, the same church during a sermon on ‘Kink Sunday,” preacher JJ Viviers, a Master of Divinity and Master of Pastoral Studies student at Emmanuel College whose pronouns encompass (they/them/he+she), “preached” a message on Luke 22:7-13 while wearing bondage ropes around his wrists.
For Context, here is the Episcopal Church USA definition of “Christ The King” Sunday..
Feast celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church on the last Sunday of the liturgical year. It celebrates Christ’s messianic kingship and sovereign rule over all creation. The feast is unofficially celebrated in some Episcopal parishes, but it is not mentioned in the Episcopal calendar of the church year. Marion Hatchett notes that the Prayer Book collect for Proper 29, the last Sunday of the church year, is a “somewhat free” translation of the collect of the Feast of Christ the King in the Roman Missal. This collect prays that God, “whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords,” will “Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule” (BCP, p. 236). The feast was originally instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 and celebrated on the last Sunday in Oct. It has been observed on the last Sunday before Advent since 1970.
