Hidden in the Jesse tree’s branches are all sorts of love stories. One of the most tangled grows between David and Jonathan. The two men’s lives are tangled together in a covenant; and their story itself is tangled by the fear of seeing them as more than friends. But if we read their story closely, perhaps it will help us untangle contemporary debates by moving us away from heated discussions about human sexuality, and instead inviting us to have compassion on one man's grief for another. If such love and such grief are named in Jesus’ own history, what right do we have to silence them in ours? Rev Lyndon Webb is a priest in Salisbury diocese, serving his curacy outside Poole.
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