Paradise Postponed
Peter J Gomes
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Address to the 2001 Covenant Conference
November 2, 2001
Harvard University chaplain and professor of morals Peter J. Gomes offers a spirited plea for the use of the Bible to support full inclusion for LGBT persons in a lecture entitled “Paradise Postponed, of, What Do We Do Until Then?”
If it is possible to be co-opted into this most elite of Christian communions, God’s frozen people, the Presbyterians, I have been co-opted by the Reverend Dr. J. Barrie Shepherd. It was in part his persuasive influence and his heroic and faithful witness in this Covenant Network that persuaded me to accept your invitation, and to journey here to be with you. I am glad that I have done so, for you are going about a great and heroic work, and it is in that work that I wish to encourage you and share with you in both the short term — today — and in the long haul — which will be as long as it takes...
