Patrik Olterman Rodhe
Pray the Gay Away
Read more: Pray the Gay AwayYou can try – Here is why it is an exercise in futility that will ultimately fail. David the Queer king of Israel A loud parade, music blasting, flags flying, at the front a king in drag, clad in flimsy white linen twirling and twerking, exposed skin. Bare buttocks and a dangling cock. Dignitaries and…
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Living Theoerotics — Desire as a Daily Spiritual Practice
Read more: Living Theoerotics — Desire as a Daily Spiritual PracticeAfter the Flame—What Remains? Desire wrecked me. And then remade me. The bed cooled. The breath slowed. The lover slept. And I was left with something holy burning in my bones—not consuming me, but to illuminating a path forward. What do you do when Eros reveals the divine? You don’t retreat.You don’t abstract.You live it.…
The Ache That Opens the World — The Theoerotic Longing for the Divine
Read more: The Ache That Opens the World — The Theoerotic Longing for the DivineThe Ache Doesn’t Leave—It Deepens My body slumps into the mattress, fallen from the cosmic heights of orgasmic bliss. Heart beating, ragged breath, sweat that streaks my heated skin like tears of relief. The event has passed, the euphoria fades … my soul cries out as I am overpowered by longing. After the touch, after…
Communion in the Flesh — Sacramental Theoerotics
Read more: Communion in the Flesh — Sacramental TheoeroticsWhat Happens After the Earthquake? After the theology burns… after the shame peels off like dead skin… after desire breaks through your carefully framed doctrines… Something astonishing unfolds. Communion. Not the liturgical kind with polished silver and pressed linens—though that too has its mystery. No, I’m talking about the messy, trembling communion that happens when…
Reclaiming Erotic Love as Theological Resistance
Read more: Reclaiming Erotic Love as Theological ResistanceThere Are Loves That Rupture the World Some loves come quietly.Others tear the veil. In my life it is often the latter. I have ADHD – It is a superpower that is both a blessing and a curse. For me, it means living life amplified – Go big or go home. Feeling it all, all…
The Illusion of Having a Sexuality — When Desire Unmakes the Self
Read more: The Illusion of Having a Sexuality — When Desire Unmakes the SelfThere Was a Time I Thought I Had One I used to think I had a sexuality. Like a wallet. Like a passport. Like something, I could carry around, present on demand to prove I belonged somewhere. Straight. Married. Monogamous. Male. I carried those labels like holy credentials, like keys to the kingdom. But they…
The Call That Won’t Let Go — When Sexuality Becomes a Voice, Not a Thing
Read more: The Call That Won’t Let Go — When Sexuality Becomes a Voice, Not a ThingSomething Beckons, and I Cannot Ignore It I didn’t choose this sacred path. I didn’t invent the desire. I didn’t plan the ache. I was called. There’s a whisper that stirs in my bones, a summons deeper than biology or identity. It comes like poetry at midnight. Like arousal during liturgy. Like longing that doesn’t…
Embracing the Theoerotic: Where Your Deepest Desires Kiss the Divine
Read more: Embracing the Theoerotic: Where Your Deepest Desires Kiss the DivineWe’ve been taught to suppress the body and it’s needs in favour of the mind, often desire is perceived as a dangerous distraction on the path to enlightenment. But what if I told you that the yearning, that ache in your soul, the Eros that throbs within you, is a direct line to the divine?…
I wish you a very queer Christmas
Read more: I wish you a very queer ChristmasChristmas is by far the greatest secular holiday. Within Christianity, most Christians would argue that it shouldn’t be; that Easter should be the greatest Christian holiday. I disagree. I think the incarnation is the greatest miracle imaginable. As I have written elsewhere: Christmas is first and foremost a celebration of our humanity. It is the…
Theoerotics!?
Read more: Theoerotics!?Theoerotics … those that know (me) assume they know the answer, those that don’t, aquaintences sometimes ask, or smirk dismissively. Walking away making assumptions of the what, the how and the why. This blog has in the past adressed this topic and failed to uncover it’s dirty secrets. As this text will fail to uncover…
The perfect coming out …
Read more: The perfect coming out …Coming out is an important rite of passage for all queer persons. It is the act of revealing to the world who you really are and as such it signifies the end of hiding. I have written elsewhere about coming out as a sacrament: the act of outwardly expressing your inner grace. September 2012 I…
Blood is thicker than water – the birthday reflection
Read more: Blood is thicker than water – the birthday reflectionTurning 50 is a divider that cuts through life with the sharpest edge. It calls for contemplation and reflection more than it conjures up visions and dreams of the future. When my father turned 50 he lightheartedly announced that he was now in the “death half” (döhalvan) of life. It is the time when (hopefully)…
Books that changed my life
Read more: Books that changed my lifeThe catalyst that changes the direction of a persons life can be very differnt depending on who you are, for me it often starts with a thought and from having the thought I would seek out books to learn more and the books would help me to shape or resahpe my reality. This series is…
The god of passionate lovers…
Read more: The god of passionate lovers…We love, because we are loved. Eros calls to us from the deepest depths of our worldly existance. Built into the very core of reality is the desire for union, the desire to fall back into oneness. To enter into union is to step, naked and vulnerable into the holy of holies, the inner sanctum…
Ten years later – any wiser?
Read more: Ten years later – any wiser?I was sitting on my brothers couch in Skarpnäck, Stockholm with him and his wife. As it often does, the polyamoury conversation came up. For once not the usual very intimate probing questions about bedroom activities. Rather the conversation was about emotions, communication and logistics. The conversation allowed me to reflect on the Journey so…
I’m the man in black!
Read more: I’m the man in black!People ask me why I bother with the church. Why I bother coming back to christianity at all after all that has happened. I think the truth is, first of all, that I never left. My faith has (although shaken at times) always been an integral part of who I am and why I have…
Will the real Sodomite(s) please stand up!
Read more: Will the real Sodomite(s) please stand up!Sodomy and sodomite are two sad words in the english language. The words have been used in the past to describe Homosexual men and their actions. Of course the word actually means “a person from Sodom” and the verb should mean “doing what the people in Sodom did.” So what did the people of Sodom…
