#jonathan dudley

[deadgayturtles]

PLSSSS JONNY ???? 😭😭😭

[talesandfluff]

Johnny is... something else.

[maraschinocheri]

Best of 2017 Countdown #15 :: Stuart and the Extended Amis!

As usual, we begin with the quiet but fulsomely talented Stuart Neal, still tapping away in the West End as Billy Lawlor in the revival of 42nd Street. Many of the extended amis from the 2012 Les Mis film also continued to shine this year, including Jonny Purchase, a stalwart of the Les Miserables West End cast currently playing Feuilly and covering Enjolras (and knocking out the occasional emergency Marius); Andy Coxon, who starred in the 50th anniversary production of Hair and in Yank earlier in the year; Jos Slovick, who received excellent reviews in the Chichester production of Fiddler on the Roof and also kept gigging with the Phoenix Collective; Jonathan Dudley, cheering it up as ever in Book of Mormon in the West End, as well appearing in the South Pacific concert at the Royal Albert Hall; Chris Milford, currently working as a puppeteer and magician in Circus 1903 in Las Vegas; Rhidian Marc promoted the Tiger Bay musical with John Owen Jones between stints in Pippin; Sameul Weir featured in the National Theatre’s production of Common; Joseph Peters continued in the musical All or Nothing and worked with the Barricade Boys group; and Matthew Corner starred in the final cast of Jersey Boys in the West End. Onward and upward, everyone.

[fuckyeahthebookofmormon]

West End Bake Off on Twitter

“Having just met the judges @bookofmormonldn give us there thoughts on how it went... #WestEndBakeOff https://t.co/zk6weIbsrb”

[westendstage]

This week we have the wonderful Jonathan Dudley taking our One Minute With WES Challenge.

Jonathan has taught at WES for 4 years now so lots of you will recognise him! Earlier this week, he opened in the West End cast of The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre!

Before this, Jonathan has appeared in shows such as Scrooge The Musical, Titanic The Musical and Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat as well as the Les Miserables film!

West End Stage Summer School is now booking its 11th year in London. Sign up now to take part in the ultimate theatre summer school!

www.westendstage.com

[thatquestion]

excerpts:

"In short, Paul objects to two things as unnatural: one is male-male sex and the other is long hair on men and short hair on women. The community opposed to gay marriage takes one condemnation as timeless and universal and the other as culturally relative."

"I. . . don’t doubt that those who advocate gay marriage are advocating a revision of the Christian tradition.

But the community opposed to gay marriage has itself revised the Christian tradition in a host of ways. For the first 1500 years of Christianity, for example, marriage was deemed morally inferior to celibacy. When a theologian named Jovinian challenged that hierarchy in 390 A.D. — merely by suggesting that marriage and celibacy might be equally worthwhile endeavors — he was deemed a heretic and excommunicated from the church.

How does that sit with 'family values' activism today?

Yale New Testament professor Dale B. Martin has noted that today’s 'pro-family' activism, despite its pretense to be representing traditional Christian values, would have been considered 'heresy' for most of the church’s history."

"Unbeknownst to most lay Christians, the vast majority of Christian theologians and saints throughout history have not believed life begins at conception.

[. . .]

It won’t do to oppose gay marriage because it’s not traditional while advocating other positions that are not traditional."

"The community most opposed to gay marriage usually reads these condemnations [of divorce] very leniently. A 2007 issue of Christianity Today, for example, featured a story on its cover about divorce that concluded that Christians should permit divorce for 'adultery,' 'emotional and physical neglect' and 'abandonment and abuse.'

The author emphasizes how impractical it would be to apply a strict interpretation of Jesus on this matter: 'It is difficult to believe the Bible can be as impractical as this interpretation implies.'

Indeed it is.

On the other hand, it’s not at all difficult for a community of Christian leaders, who are almost exclusively white, heterosexual men, to advocate interpretations that can be very impractical for a historically oppressed minority to which they do not belong – homosexuals."

(via alexorue) check out also:

"I think we all, inescapably, bring our prior beliefs to the Bible, and read the Bible in a way that reflects those. I think the damaging thing is when people say that they're just taking the Bible for what it says, and that they don't have prior beliefs or theology that guides their interpretation of the Bible."

— Jonathan Dudley

[alexorue]

Hypocrisy Of Christians On Homosexuality

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In theory, if not always in practice, past Christian theologians valued science out of the belief that God created the world scientists study. Augustine castigated those who made the Bible teach bad science, John Calvin argued that Genesis reflects a commoner's view of the physical world, and the Belgic confession likened scripture and nature to two books written by the same author. These beliefs encouraged past Christians to accept the best science of their day, and these beliefs persisted even into the evangelical tradition. As Princeton Seminary's Charles Hodge, widely considered the father of modern evangelical theology, put it in 1859: "Nature is as truly a revelation of God as the Bible; and we only interpret the Word of God by the Word of God when we interpret the Bible by science." In this analysis, Christians must accept sound science, not because they don't believe God created the world, but precisely because they do.

Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution, Jonathan Dudley, Huffington Post

Thanks to Lex for the article link.