Freely You Received

from Between Bread and Stone · host Stephen R. Brewer, PsyD

This week’s episode asks what kind of love can actually hold a person when every other economy starts ranking them. The readings from Romans and Matthew give us agape: the love poured out before worthiness, price, performance, or desirability enter the room. For Pride month, I sit with agape, eros, koinonia, the gay desirability economy, the respectable parish sorting machine, and the painful difference between being included and being freely received. Before next week’s coming out story, this episode names the love I was looking for all along. Freely you received. Freely give. You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe

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