The Gnostics and Walt Whitman

The Gnostics are a hot news item between The DaVinci Code and the Gospel of Judas. This sermon gives some background on them and what we know about their theology. The reading from 2 Corinthians today includes a kind of gnostic thinking that says that being in a human body separates us from God. To that I say hogwash and called on a friend for help - Walt Whitman. We read some of Walt Whitman's I Sing the Body Electric to be a counterpoint to St. Paul's "while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord." Enjoy!