#queer christian

[gayleviticus]

'gender transition won't make you happy, only Jesus will' is not only an extremely annoying thing to say but i think probably a violation of James 2.16

#queer christian #progressive christian #christianity #religion #christian

[thepsychopompsthrenody]

i'm really sorry but you're gonna find god in the Other Stuff, too. religious trappings are nice. so is tradition. it's good to have buildings to go to and things to wear and holy texts to read and prescripted songs to sing. it's comforting to have lineage and instructions. bless the treasure map.

but god's Elsewhere, too: out on the tips of skinny branches and wading in the weeds, left of center, left field.

so if you decide to test this theory and go rambling around calling out innumerable, unpronounceable names, know that you won't have to look too hard. divinity does a terrible job concealing itself. god willing you will take a shine to the idea that god happens everywhere, in everything, all the time.

#religion #queer christian #queer catholic #this is an about me post #queer religion

[chelledoggo]

there's too much animosity towards queer people who want to practice their faith/spirituality, both within their respective religions and within the LGBTQIA+ community.

we need to protect and lift up our queer siblings of faith.

our queer Christians.

our queer Jews.

our queer Muslims.

our queer Hindus.

our queer Buddhists.

our queer Sikhs.

our queer Baháʼís.

our queer Wiccans/Pagans.

our queer Shintos.

our queer siblings of indigenous/folk faiths.

our queer SBNR siblings.

our queer siblings of whatever religion/spiritual systems they observe.

you're all beautiful and valid and loved and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 💖

#religion cw #queer theology #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq #queer christian #queer jews #queer muslim #queer hindu #queer buddhist #queer pagan #queer wiccan #queer

[citrussunrises]

Every time I have ever found God it has been from a group of outsiders.

Every picture of God that has ever looks like him has been made by people who never saw a Jesus that looked like themselves

I have never felt more at home than when listening to a gay person talk about God. I have never understood someone better than the lesbian Catholics who love to veil, or the transgender episcoples who see their transition as an opportunity to share in God's creation, or anyone who found God and then carved their own way to him.

When I sit in chapel, and the worship music feels like noise, I know there is a hymn being sung with a shaking voice that sounds just like Christ calling out for his father. When I see lessons written in script, I know there are sheets of construction paper printed in stock fonts on a family's kitchen table sent home from Sunday school teaching the same. When I get a hand out with Bible verses bought from Amazon, I know that someone has written the same verse in craft glue and collage and their blood.

I think God is present the most when the process of finding him is distinctly human; because I think he knows us, and makes the way he finds us human.

#Jesus #Episcopal #Catholic #Anglican #m #queer christian

[blessedarethequeer]

people always say "your body is a temple" as some kind of pearl-clutching gotcha finger wag to people with tattoos and piercings and body mods which has never made sense to me

cause like.

y'all know what we do with temples right? with holy spaces?

we adorn them in art and precious metals and things of beauty. we make them spectacles of gathering to signal that this is a space we know the Divine calls to us. our Creation does not end the moment we take our first breath, we continue to collaborate in our own Creation each and every day.

get the tattoo or that piercing, fill yourself with delicious things and celebrate in wonder at the mystery it is to live within your body!

#our bodies are gifts to celebrate and adorn andexperience #even when we might have complicated relationships with them for any number of reasons #queer christian #trans christian #queer catholic #creation #trans catholic #trans theology

[thurifer-at-heart]

"Christianity is the only major world religion to have as its central focus the suffering and degradation of its God. The crucifixion is so familiar to us, and so moving, that it is hard to realize how unusual it is as an image of God." Churches sometimes offer Christian education classes under the title "Why Did Jesus Have to Die?" This is not really the right question. A better one is, "Why was Jesus crucified?" The emphasis needs to be, not just on the death, but on the manner of the death. To speak of a crucifixion is to speak of a slave's death. We might think of all the slaves in the American colonies who were killed at the whim of an overseer or owner, not to mention those who died on the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. No one remembers their names or individual histories; their stories were thrown away with their bodies. This was the destiny chosen by the Creator and Lord of the universe: the death of a nobody. Thus the Son of God entered into solidarity with the lowest and least of all his creation, the nameless and forgotten, "the offscouring [dregs] of all things" (1 Cor. 4:13).

—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (p.75)

#to speak of a crucifixion is to speak of a slave's death #fleming rutledge #the crucifixion #crucifixion #jesus christ #jesus #episcopalian #progressive christian #progressive christianity #queer christian #liberation theology #theology #christianity #christian

[beloved-of-john]

#meme made by me #christianity #queer christian #trans christian #christian memes

[dreamyholmes]

From Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme

#jay hulme #queer poetry #queer christian #backwater sermons

[ohlawdthebirds]

We gotta go back to the days of early Christianity, where believers refused to serve in the military. There's entirely too many boot-licking evangelicals. Like, that's fundamentally what Jesus was against.

#queer christian #Godposting #i hate the military and love God #simple as

[daisy-mooon]

I love you gay Christians. I love you lesbian Christians. I love you bisexual Christians. I love you pansexual Christians. I love you asexual Christians. I love you aromantic Christians. I love you transgender Christians. I love you non-binary Christians. I love you intersex Christians. I love you genderfluid Christians. I love you queer Christians. I love you genderqueer Christians. I love you microlabel Christians. I love you LGBT Christians.

#queer christian #queer #LGBT #gay #bisexual #transgender #lesbian #non binary #genderfluid #pansexual #asexual #aromantic #intersex #sexuality #gender #genderqueer #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbt christian #gay christian #gay religon #queer religion #lgbt religion #religious #christianity #in light of recent events... #church of England #religion #1k

[gay-doodlebug-with-adhd916]

Queer Christians Unite!

If you're a queer Christian, would you mind interacting with this post in some way? I would love to get to know more queer Christians in all different walks of life, as at least in my personal life it can feel rather isolating.

If you're not a queer Christian and would like to interact with this post as well, please feel free! Just please be kind, and also recognize that this post is about uniting people in what feels like rather small pockets of society. And please no hate, I understand that different beliefs, opinions, and standpoints/life experiences exist, and the more difficult conversations about those kinds of things can totally happen. However, I also happen to get a lot of difficult comments and hateful sentiments from people irl, and I would like this post to be a safe place.

Thank you and I love you all!

<3 Doodlebug

#Queer Christian #Queer #Christian #Queer Christians interact! #Gay Christian #Trans Christian #Lesbian Christian #Bisexual Christian #LGBTQ+ Christian #no hate pls

[eve-ate-the-right-fruit]

not me ugly crying at God telling Her queer son that She "made [him] this bright so that others would see in the darkness"

Eric's arc this last season of sex education was a love letter to religious queer folk. Bless the writers the world really needed this

#sex education #eric effiong #queer christian #sex education spoilers

[whereserpentswalk]

I'm not lgbt in the sense of "Jesus would have accepted gay people too." I'm queer in the sense of "if God hates faggots then I'm on the side of Satan."

#196 #anti christianity #anti Christian #fuck christianity #christanity #queer community #queer theory #queerness #queer liberation #lgbt #satan #satanic #queer christian #fuck the church #chrsitianity #lgbtqia #lgbtq #gay #lesbians #lesbian #homosexual #homophobia #non bianry #bisexuality #bisexual #bi #enby #trans rights #trans

[possumsarenice]

oh boy a fandom queer posts about Christianity. But fr, but as a Christian, I don’t think enough people REALLY register what God being all seeing and all knowing means. Like, if a human tries to know what was going on at all places on on earth at the same time for even a fraction of a second, the information would probably shatter their brain. God not only knows all of that, but knows about everything going in the entire universe for all of time. Knows the fine details of DNA and food chains. The weather cycle of planets we will never see. God cannot be defined by our laws because He’s what brought them to be and can exist without them perfectly fine. I’m tired of people treating God like a human with a lot of power. GOD IS A COMSIC HORROR GREAT OLD ONE BUT INSTEAD OF BEING APATHETIC TO US, HE’S JUST LIKE “My kids :)”

#christian stuff #Christian #Christianity #theology #bible #queer christian

[holyhyphae]

might start a line of bumper stickers

#do you understand the vision #queer christian

[orthopunkfox]

Being queer and a Christian is often very difficult. I experience alienation from both sides. Often these two parts of myself feel impossible to reconcile. But, I want to share something beautiful that my priest does that nearly makes me weep every time. The Orthodox Church is not known for its inclusivity or progressiveness. It is ancient and its gears turn slowly. During Holy Communion, those who are not confirmed members of the Church may come forward for a blessing. The blessing is done by gender.

"The servant of God [Name] is blessed..." for men,

"The handmaid of God [Name] is blessed..." for women.

The first time I went up for a blessing, I was hesitant. My gender is no secret and I do not try to hide my queerness. Which blessing would I receive? With sadness, I concluded the priest would do what was simplest and default to my assigned gender.

I stood before him and bowed my head, arms crossed over my (noticeably growing) chest. He raised the golden chalice over my head and lovingly said:

"The beloved of God Quinn is blessed, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen "

He has done this ever since and with this simple action, preaches one of the main, if oft forgotten pillars of Orthodoxy: It does not matter who you are, what pronouns you use, what colour your hair is, what clothes you wear, what mistakes you've made, what trials you have overcome, where you came from or where you are. You are beloved of God just as you are. You are created in the Image of God and are a sacred vessel of beauty, and there is a place for you here.

This is true inclusivity. Not the white liberal veneer placed on so many churches where the cishet, boomer congregation pats themselves on the back for the rainbow flag outside while actively misgendering the trans person sitting in the pew. My priest has not given any big speeches talking about how everyone is loved here. He doesn't have to. His genuine kindness and that of my fellow parishioners are the only sermon marginalised people need to hear. In these moments, the two parts of myself become one and I truly believe that the God I love delights in me.

#queer christian #orthodox christianity #orthodoxleftist #faithfullylgbtq #orthodoxy #trans christian #orthodox church #inclusiveorthodoxy