Episcopal Priest Says Jesus Transitioned After Resurrection

Episcopal priest Flourish Klink drew criticism for a sermon at a New York City service celebrating transgender joy, in which Klink described God as beyond the male-female binary and said Jesus could be understood as transgender. Klink argued that Mary assigned Jesus a male identity at birth, that Jesus departed from some gender expectations of his time, and that his resurrection may have represented a transition, while acknowledging the Bible does not explicitly describe such a change. Critics called the interpretation heretical or offensive and pointed to the biblical account that the angel Gabriel told Mary before Jesus’s birth that she would have a son; the sermon later resurfaced online and prompted renewed debate.