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Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry, November 13, 2018

Wouldn’t this be a great song to sing in church, inviting everyone to be brave? It would invite LGBT people to take the brave step of coming out and it would invite those with negative LGBT attitudes to be brave about loving people they fear or don’t understand. Maybe one of these days you can let the light in “Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live

Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of loveĮverybody’s been stared down by the enemy You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug You can view two versions of the video of the song (one with lyrics, one with Bareilles perfroming) at the end of this post. One of Bareilles’ biggest hits, “Brave,” reads like an anthem for being honest about one’s identity and finding the courage to do so. “I don’t have judgment about it, but for those people who do, I just really think love is bigger than anything else, and that’s the torch I want to burn.” “I understand people’s reverence for legacy and tradition, but I really believe in the more fundamental truth of what I think Catholicism is built around, the golden rule that Christianity is built around.Love each other. I think that sometimes there are these hard and fast rules that don’t reflect the consciousness of the world anymore. “We’re watching the effects of where Catholicism needs to do a little evolution. In response to a question about the scapegoating of gay priests for the clergy sex abuse crisis, she said: In the same interview, Bareilles also commented on the Catholic Church, and she sounded a lot like Pope Francis when she did so. ” In a recent interview with Pink News, though, the singer acknowledged that the statement was an accident, that she is not attracted to women, and that if she were lesbian “I would be shouting it from the mountaintops.” Pink News reports that earlier this year, Bareilles, who is the composer of the Broadway smash hit musical Waitress, was asked a question about her first hit tune, “Love Song.” In response she said, “It was never about a he.

Sara bareilles brave lyrics video