The Indecency Index

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Marginalization is what is indecent.
All systems prop up sameness as survival.
Rhetorically, has that ever proven true?
Clarity comes from diverse exposure.
Ecclesial elephants in the room stampede.
Litigious liturgies leave little room for grace.
Lament is the only response left.
Anathemas are best served administratively.

Aggression never dismantles the truth.
Let liberation be our life-giving theology.
Theology must not diminish the impoverished—
Harried by more than the reach of holdings,
Alienated by race, gender, sexuality, theology itself—
Unity never comes through uniformity.
Salvation can only be served stigma-free.

Real religion provides real options for those
Excluded socially and theologically.
Inclusive theology is only indecent to systems
Dominating the oppressed. Now exposed.

Poet’s Note:
An acrostic Scorched Sunday poem. Part of my Scorched Strays series. This poem interrogates how institutions define “indecency,” exposing the ways theology is often weaponized through process, uniformity, and exclusion rather than practiced as liberation, grace, and embodied solidarity.

© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.

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