#queer christians

[many-sparrows]

Sorry, but I'd rather accidentally love too many people than too few. I'd rather accidentally welcome people I'm not supposed to than exclude people I'm supposed to welcome. I think God looks much more kindly on one of those than the other.

#the secret is that theres no one you're not supposed to welcome or love #this is about queer people #queer theology #queer + religious #queer christians #pride #lgbt christian #godblr #autumn preaches

[a-queer-seminarian]

If you’re looking for queer-affirming Christian stickers, pronoun pins, etc., I recommend checking out More Light Presbyterians’ online store! I had a ton of fun designing a lot of the statement stickers 😄

ID in alt text.

#more light Presbyterians #queer Christians #trans Christians #faithfullylgbt

[emohorseboy]

yesterday i went to meeting for worship in the morning and did my testosterone injection in the evening

never let anyone tell you that faith and transness are incompatible

#quakerism #society of friends #Quakers #religious society of friends #trans man #meeting for worship #trans Christians #queer Christians #trans Quaker

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Advent Devotionals, 2023

I wanted to share some devotionals for this coming Advent (it starts December 3!) that are queer affirming & center marginalized perspectives. If you know of others, please add on!

What Are You Waiting For? An LGBTQIA+ Affirming Advent Devotional

Format: A short written devotional or poem for every day of Advent, shared as one PDF document linked above

Creators: The Collective of Queer Christian Leaders, including Rev. Nicole Garcia of the National LGBTQ Task Force and members of the Transmission Ministry Network

Another Starry Black Night: A Womanist Advent Devotional

Format: Short written devotionals, one for each Sunday & Wednesday of Advent, as well as Christmas day

Creators: Black women, most of whom are ordained Presbyterian ministers, some of whom are queer

Posted on Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice

Abolition Advent Calendar: "Freedom for All Bodies"

Format: daily written devotionals that you can sign up to receive as emails. Each week expands the theme of abolition & racial justice to include 1) reproductive justice; 2) trans/nonbinary justice; 3) disability justice; and 4) body positivity

Shared by Join the Movement, a UCC organization

"Todos! Todos! Todos! Advent Reflections and Meditations on the Scriptures

Format: Zoom calls with a reflection followed by discussion groups every Wednesday of Advent, 8pm-9pm EST

Creators: DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT-advocacy organization

An Advent Guide with Reflections on Palestine/Israel

Format: a devotional for each Sunday of Advent, shared as one PDF linked above

Creators: "Each week during Advent read firsthand accounts from recently returned Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) of their experiences during their deployment with the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI). Along with their stories and photos are bible readings, further resources and prayers to offer."

#queer christians #advent #advent 2023 #devotionals #prayer tag #resources

[queermuslimlove]

Happy TDOV and Ramadan Kareem to my Trans Muslims out there!

And sending religious solidarity love to my Trans Christian siblings! Happy Easter!

☪️🏳️‍⚧️✝️

#queer muslims #trans muslims #queer christians #trans christians #tdov #transgender #trans #trans day of visibility

[l4v1nf41th]

“For I could not have known how to love the Lord, if he had not loved me.

Who is able to understand love except one who is loved?”

- Ode of Solomon 2:3-4 trans. Mark Mattison (Nuhra version 2021)

#queer christians #trans christians #quotes #ode of Solomon

[theogbubblesnake]

#ask me anything #world religion #Pro Religion #God Loves You #Praise God #Praise Jesus #Queer People Of Faith #Queer Christians #Progressive Christians #Islam #Judaism #spiritualgrowth

[onearthwerebrieflygorgons]

Petition for Christian queers to replace "the closet" with "the tomb"

#“out” can turn into “risen” #christ arose after 3 days #but it took me 20 years #easter #christianity #queer christians #lgbt

[theeverdream]

You're not going to hell for being who you are.

You didn't inherit anyone else's sin and become in need of redemption just because you were born.

And my fellow queer people, there is nothing about your queerness that anyone worth your devotion would ever permit to come between you and them.

#to my fellow #exvangelical #people as well as any #christian #people in need of this encouragement. you are worthy of love I promise #queer #queer christians #tedsilver

[offcampusstillnerdy]

If you've been raised xtian and if you're queer and if you're trying to work out how to reconcile all that, you should know that there's loads of queer xtians. Here's a little anthem for that Venn diagram.

#queer spirituality #queer #queer christians #christianity #trans #radical inclusivity #radical hospitality #universal diversity #flamy grant #Youtube

[rainbow-sheeps]

hey folks!

wanted to do a quick reminder we have a server, and apologize for not posting thursday or yesterday. i had a fever ^^'

anyways!!! please feel free to join, we love having new people!

#discord server #lgbt discord server #queer christians

[many-sparrows]

Was in a meeting today and one of my colleagues said that Christian faith isn't just about personal holiness, but about social holiness. It's about creating holiness in the way we treat each other.

#screaming #godblr #queer christians #theology #queer + religious #religion #endless grace #im going to tear out my hair!!!!

[loveenduresall]

nobody really talks about how isolating it can be to be both Christian and Queer :(

both communities can be Loving & Accepting but also sometimes people from either side can spew Hate on the other .. not that Christians are Oppressed in the (Western) Queer Community or that Queer people making Anti-Christian jokes amounts to any Violence that “Christians” may carry out against Queer people - but it can be very Isolating to know that sometimes you are seen as an Enemy to your Queer Family and as a Degenerate to your Christian Siblings..

To those Loving & Accepting Christians.. you are doing the Lord’s Work and He looks fondly upon you. To The Welcoming Non-Christian Queer Community towards Us… Thank you. ❤️

#this is primarily about my own experience growing up in the American South #this is not Universal - there is so much nuance ! #mostly just feeling isolated among my friends from jokes they make… it is no big deal in the end and i can understand why .. but it does -> #make me feel a bit isolated around a group that usually makes me feel welcomed #normal tags -> #christianity #lgbt christians #lgbt christianity #queer christians #intersectional christianity

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

Looking for a devotional to guide you through Advent? Here are some options that center marginalized perspectives and won’t jump-scare you with anti-queer sentiments.

Note that I am not affiliated with any of these devotionals; I just gathered them here to help spread the word!

(Also, yes, I posted these same resources the other day lol, but i then made images to share to Instagram and figured I'd share them here too)

#advent 2023 #advent #queer christians #devotionals

[cookinguptales]

So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.

I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.

See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.

I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.

Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.

In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.

They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.

Conservatives lost their damn minds.

Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.

When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.

Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America. 

Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”

Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.

The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.

This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.

Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.

The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.

I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.

Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.

Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.

The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.

That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.

They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.

So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.

We have! To keep! Pushing back!

#disney #ron desantis #gay rights #lgbt #queer #lgbt history #queer history #homophobia #florida #us politics #religious fundamentalism #christianity #long post #god that should cover all the pertinent tags and content warnings phew

[l4v1nf41th]

“The first form is darkness; the second is desire; the third is ignorance; the fourth is zeal for death; the fifth is the realm of the flesh; the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh; the seventh is is the wisdom of the wrathful person. These are the seven powers of wrath.”

- Mary 9:18 - 25, The gospel of Mary Magdalene

The “powers” “sins” or “demons of the ego. Meggan Watterson, Author of “Mary Magdalene revealed” believes these are the seven demons that Jesus expelled from Mary, referred to in Luke 8:2.

Mary’s Gospel is an ascent narrative as it describes the path navigated to liberate the soul during life. Mary is regarded as the first apostle because she followed in Jesus’s footsteps and witnessed his death and resurrection. The Gospel reveals the wisdom that Christ gave only Mary, and features her telling the Disciples what they spoke of.

The powers are the states we humans embody through life, that keep us stuck, and separated from God. They are regarded as sins only by their nature of adultery. I interpret this as betraying God. They are what makes us human. Christ was both equal parts human and divine, he went on this journey to ascend, and shared his wisdom with Mary.

Then Peter said to him, “You have been explaining every topic to us, tell us one thing. What is the sin of the world?” The Saviour replied “There is no such thing as sin; rather you yourselves are what produces sin when you act in accordance with the nature of adultery, which is called ‘sin’. For this reason, the Good came among you, persuing (the Good) which belongs to every nature.”

- Mary 3:1 - 5

Radical, huh? No wonder this gospel was hidden underground for safety, and not considered canon. Discovered in Egypt in the late 1896, written in Coptic and said to have been written in the second century, before the bible was complied in the third century. There are three known copies found. It’s a gnostic text and is part of the Berlin Codex.

Meet the Demons: a deep dive

When someone says they’re “facing their demons” these are what I think of. If it’s our humanness that makes us sin, then are we inherently sinful? I’m not sure I agree with that. We’re humans, that isn’t wrong or shameful. This is what the Gospel is telling us. These “demons” are parts of our identity we shed when we become more like Jesus. It’s not a infinite state we’re always in. We’re not God. We return to ourselves every time we return to God. We become more like Christ when we return to God. Our Salvation is within us all along.

Learning about these powers made me feel seen, humble and grateful to not be alone. This perspective allows me to see my behaviour and allows me to confess and forgive and pray. I’m less likely to judge others, and it gives me hope on my journey of faith.

Darkness

- hopeless, lack of faith, despair, depression, heaviness, trapped, stuck, loneliness

Desire

- clinging, craving, attachment, not accepting what you have and how things are, wishing for things to be different, greed, insecurity, lack

Ignorance

- lack of awareness, voluntary ignoring, small mindedness, unconscious state we fall into and act from. not indicating to the deficient of character or intelligence, ignorance can save us (only handle so much at once, freeze response, disassociation- not moral failing)

Zeal/Craving for Death

- not necessarily suicide, but gluttony. Making choices that neglect and endanger the health of others or ourselves. Extremes of pleasure that harm body. Destruction and hurt to ourselves. Soul is forgotten.

Realm of Flesh

- enslavement to physical body, when we fully identify with body and forget we are more than that, a soul, not just a physical body with needs. Relates to lust and greed when we put our temporary gratification over someone else’s. Forcing physical needs on someone who dost not consent.

Foolish wisdom of Flesh/False peace of flesh

- sloth. Patterns of inaction, lead to not wanting to do anything. Procrastination, fear, reluctance to Change, stagnation, would rather suffer than accept the reality and make a change.

Wisdom of Wrathful Person

- anger is healing, responsibility to not hurt others with it. Not see others as worthy of disrespect, worthy of harm and pain.

Isn’t the power that is harmful, but the presence of the power and absence of the soul.

I live my life based on the Bible, The Gospel of Thomas, Philip and Mary, and the Love Ethic described in bell hooks book ‘all about love’

God Bless <33

#queer christians #trans christians #quotes #mary magdalene #mary magdalene revealed #Meggan Watterson #the gospel of Mary magdalene #Cynthia bourgeault #Jean-Yves Leloup #Karen King