Lionel Blue
Lionel Blue
Lionel Blueis a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 February 1930
christian jesus thinking
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
judaism infant versions
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
old-friends irreplaceable dies
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
discrimination insult luther
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
lovers devotee
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
saws idolatry stalinism
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
religious taken ghetto
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
jew
Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
jew comfortable
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
oxford quaker
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
christmas christian jesus
The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
christian jesus unique
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
christian retreat stills
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
christian ghetto shame
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.