#queertheology

[earlsings]

Reposted from @affirmingyouthministries It’s okay to be a follower of God or a self identified Christian and to be and out and proud queer person loving whoever you want and living your life. It’s not only okay, but it’s good and beautiful and needed. Our ministry exists to spread this good news to queer youth❤️ . . . . . . #queer #queertheology #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #transgender #transvisibility #transpride #transgender #queertheology #trans #queeryouth #gayteen #gaychristian #gayicon #queerchristian #gaypride #nonbinary #affirmingyouthministries #affirmingtheology #youthministry #affirmingyouthministries https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-9CFxMjxh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[chxrchgay]

God wouldn’t think of we queer people as groomers and pedophiles right? I don’t understand conservative Christians. The backlash against queer people in America has gotten particularly strong this year and it’s so hard. Do you have any tips? Maybe prayers to think or something?

I'm so sorry, I'm not sure when you sent this in. G-d absolutely does not think of queer people as groomers or pedophiles. That is truly one of the most upsetting aspects of Christian homophobia to me—the idea that our mere existence is harmful, or that we are a danger to children. I've had that leveraged against me within my own family. It hurts so much and I'm so sorry that you're being subjected to it now. I don't pray anymore, but I tried to look for some affirming prayers for you. I hope you find at least some of them to be helpful or reassuring.

Affirmation of Faith

A Prayer For The LGBT Community

Prayers for National Weekend of Prayer for LGBTQ Justice (I think this is from the 2015 Supreme Court hearing regarding gay marriage, but it definitely still feels relevant)

A Prayer For Wanderers (by @queertheology)

LGBTQ Pride Liturgy

A Prayer For Pride

Pride Liturgy

Prayers for PRIDE Month

One of the sites I looked at also had this poem by Walt Whitman, which is not a prayer but is very sweet and is just. a good reminder of the joy that can be found as a queer person:

If anyone else has suggestions, please add them!

#anon #answered #lgbt #lgbt christian #queer christian #queertheology

[lgbt-christian-safe-haven]

can you recommend any other lgbt+ christian blogs?

@queerprayers and @queertheology @queerlychristians come to mind, there are so so so many others.

If you're an LGBT+ Christian blog, can you interact with this post?

[huntergreys]

Devil s tuning fork

#DEVIL S TUNING FORK HOW TO#

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He will lead them to the springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. No sun or scorching heat will beat down on them, because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them. They worship him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them. This is the reason they are before God’s throne. They have washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood. Then he said to me, “These people have come out of great hardship. Highly experimental and set in an abstract world inspired by the art of M.

#DEVIL S TUNING FORK PC#

Then one of the elders said to me, “Who are these people wearing white robes, and where did they come from?” Devil’s Tuning Fork is a free PC download developed by a small team of students from DePaul University. They fell facedown before the throne and worshipped God, saying, They cried out with a loud voice:Īll the angels stood in a circle around the throne, and around the elders and the four living creatures. They wore white robes and held palm branches in their hands. They were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. If you’d like to be featured in future episodes, email your question or Bible passage suggestion to 7:9-17Īfter this I looked, and there was a great crowd that no one could number. If you want to support the Patreon and help keep the podcast up and running, you can learn more and pledge your support at /queertheology We are connected to the struggles that came before us.Queering the Bible: Revelation 7:9-17.Be curious about the concern underneath the anti-queer beliefs.Protecting yourself while still meeting people with grace.Avoid generalizing see people individually.Take our answers to this question with a grain of salt Perception, 1975, volume 4, pages 107-109 Building the Devils Tuning Fork Brooks Masterton, John M Kennedy Scarborough College, University of Toronto.Email question: on being kind to those who are unkind to queer folks.Brian: winter, time in NY, and going back home.This wild and wacky from the last book of the Christian Bible has a surprising amount of relevance for the LGBTQ community today. Shay changed Brian’s mind about featuring this passage and how we queer this text from Revelation. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll notice that we don’t look at Revelation often but today is an exemption. How do I respond to these things in a way that is constructive and kind?” “As a queer person, that can be difficult to swallow.

#DEVIL S TUNING FORK HOW TO#

She wants to know how to be kind and warm to the oppressed and suffering when others are hateful and dismissive comments of queer folks. This listener works in a homeless shelter where she finds some of the people she works with and serves are anti-queer. If you find yourself properly mesmerized the soundtrack is available online on their website as well.In today’s episode, we answer a question sent through our email. The whole premise here is right up our alley, any type of sound visualization is going to catch our eyes and ears-the idea of interaction and puzzle solving mixed with the flexing of our aural muscles (bones?) makes for a perfect afternoon time waster. There have certainly been albums that have made us feel music like we've never felt before, but the concept of literally seeing by audio is one we've only heard about in neuroscience books, and we're not particularly keen on having a stroke just to induce the possibility of synesthesia. You solve little puzzles to save children from comas and the world is rendered by banging on your tuning fork. The mechanic of the game is centered on the idea of echolocation and radar and the resulting product is pretty damn cool. Hold on, before you tune out because of the word "game" it's worth checking out the video if nothing else. The project, which is sort of technically called a game is part of the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase. That something is something called Devil's Tuning Fork which made us smile from ear to ear and think of strange and unusual uses for technology. Maybe it's the post-Grammy slump, or perhaps it's an entire nation enthralled with something called Lost, but we've wandered off into the internet to find something a little different today.

#Devil s tuning fork

[transpantastic]

The recent "Affirming Parenting" series from @queertheology is good stuff, go listen! We occasionally get messages from parents who saw "transgender parenting" in our description and thought we'd be a good resource for them as they struggle with their own children are coming out. That's not our experience, but we welcome all comers here.

#podcast #lgbtq #parenting

[nataliewiggstevenson]

Hervé Guibert, Gorka (1981)

#performance art #herve guibert #feminist theology #queertheology #indecenttheology #transgressivedevotion #bookofjob #acts

[kadehenry]

Beyond Apologetics and “the image of god”

This is a love letter – a curiosity, a hope towards our freedom.

Dear siblings, I am trying to find out what we mean. I know I won’t know it for all of us. And I know I won’t know it alone. I am only ever myself, in my body. And I believe you about your bodies too. I know lots of people don’t. And no one wants to tell the story differently. Because the story we have already feels so precious. But I think maybe the story isolates us from each other. We pick it up as the Narrative That Matters, because it is the first one that kind of fits.

Like the first time you put on that dress. The first time you squeezed into that binder. The first time there was eyeliner.

We were so certain we all looked good. And we did. And we’ve grown since then.

I hope for a theology for the guys who all go camping, huddled in the van before breakfast, tenderly administering each other’s shots so that we don’t have to be in charge of stabbing ourselves one more time.

What I want to do in my work is simply to administer the shot. To reflect back on our dosage. To be in charge of the sharps for a minute, so you can take off the binder and revel in the sunshine the way we never do at the beach because the surgery is too expensive, or we want kids first, or we’ve actually always hated our bodies, and dysphoria was just another word we gave ourselves, or they gave us.

I’m writing for the women whose dysphoria has gotten worse as the other pieces click into place. Maybe that is what I feel – dysphoria about the imago dei. People keep saying I’m in the imago dei, and I don’t know what they mean. Or I do, and I don’t think that’s how it really is. I like the idea, I can perform the apologetic, but I don’t feel like that. Or I do feel like that, and I wonder what it is I’ve signed on for. I worry about the masculinity. I worry about the passing.

But, you may ask, why does it matter? Don’t we have theological arguments about that? Aren’t we all imago dei - made in the image of God?

It matters because Alexis killed herself. It matters because Stephanie has days where all the imago dei in the world won’t quiet the dysphoria. It matters because Mason is still dealing with their pronouns being fucked up, and by people who claim to love and care about them. It matters because all the imago dei in the world isn’t making Medicare pay for Ryn’s chronic pain medication, or Aiden’s anxiety, or Crystal’s allergies and respiratory issues, or Daryl’s eating disorder, or Moira girlfriend, whose job security relies on hernot  publicly dating a trans woman, or Brian’s sobriety, or August’s sobriety, or Caryne shaking and crying in their car as teenagers surround the vehicle pounding on it. Imago dei isn’t thick enough to get my friends through another winter without killing themselves. It doesn’t give Scout back hir home or hir childhood. It doesn’t un-institutionalize Leo for those 18 months. It doesn’t get Janice out of jail.

And I am so tired of the story. 

When we claim the imago dei as an apologetic strategy we may claim our humanity, but we don’t even begin to touch God. And although in one sense that may be fine – we all just want to be human and not dead to the people around us – in another it matters because if we’re only using imago dei to say something about ourselves, then we’re still stuck with whatever God it is that someone else decides we’re in the image of. And I believe God is bigger than that. We deserve more than just harm-reduction apologetics.

#transgender #trans christians #trans theology #queer theology #imago dei #constructive theology #queertheology #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqi #gay christians #nonbinary #enby christians #hormones #hrt #apologetics #queer faith #transmasc #transition #progressive christianity

[shannontlkearns]

The Bible and Queerness

But what about the verses in Genesis? Leviticus? Romans? How do you explain....? What about...? Then someone else counters with Galatians and David and Jonathan and Jesus and the Centurion’s servant. And the wheel spins on.

I know how badly you want a simple, clear, 100% unquestioned answer. 

It doesn’t exist. 

There are a million reasons it doesn’t exist (language, translation, culture, etc.) but the root of it all is that it doesn’t exist because the Bible isn’t a singular text of rules. It’s not a history book or a science book. Hell, it’s not even A BOOK. 

It’s a library of books all written by different people in different time periods. Different Scriptures argue with other Scriptures. They contradict each other. They are in dialogue with each other. 

And if all of THAT weren’t confusing enough add in the countless scholars throughout centuries that have disagreed and fought and punched each other (for real) and called each other names. They ALL had different interpretations of what texts meant. 

“SO what? Do we throw it out? You must not take the Bible seriously!”

I actually take the Bible very seriously. I’ve devoted my life to the study of it. And it’s BECAUSE I take it so seriously that I refuse to let it be reduced to a simplified rulebook. I refuse to let it be used to condemn people it doesn’t condemn. I refuse to let it be mistreated and used as a weapon.

Just because there are no simple answers doesn’t mean the text is worthless. Instead it’s a collection of poetry, stories, songs, and more that are written by real people in real places at real points in history. They are struggling to make sense of their place in the world and their relationship with the Divine. It’s gritty and messy and filled with mistakes because that’s what it means to be human.

But it’s also filled with immense beauty, with passion, with struggle. It tells the story of a people struggling with who’s in and who’s out (and a God who is always calling them toward more inclusion). It’s the story of a people who struggle with what it means to do justice (especially in the face of Exile and Empire). It’s the story of a people who struggle to make the presence of God known through how they behave. 

The Bible still has immense relevance today but only if you read it the way it was meant to be read, not as a rulebook full of easy to understand facts but as a testament to the human struggle to connect with God and do right by each other. 

And let me tell you, if you can get off of the “BUT WHAT ABOUT AHHHHHHHH....” hamster wheel you will uncover such beauty and depth and the Bible will be so much richer. 

(for an easy to read intro to how to read the Bible, check out Rob Bell’s newest book “What Is The Bible?” For a weekly podcast with queer takes on the Scripture passages, check out @queertheology)

#queer theology #queertheology #faithfullylgbt #christian #bible #scripture #theology #gay christian #lgbtq #transgender #trans #ftm

[earlsings]

✝️❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We have been hosting online affirming youth groups for almost three years now and it never ceases to amaze us how resilient the young people that find us are. In the face of non-affirming Christianity they still want to believe and explore their faith. In order to find us they have to search the internet, fill out a form, and have the courage to show up by themselves to an online youth group where they don’t know anybody…just so they can worship in a safe affirming environment…ID: a tweet that says, “I am constantly amazed by queer Christian’s. To look in the face of a religion that has told us that we don’t belong so many times and to still say ‘God loves me as I am’ is a powerful thing.”. . . . . . #queer #queertheology #lgbtq+ #asexuality #lgbtqia #transgender #genderfluid #nonbinary #genderqueer #transgender #genderqueer #queertheology #trans #queeryouth #gayteen #gaychristian #queersupport #youthsupport #queerchristian #lgbtqhistory #nonbinary #affirmingyouthministries #nonaffirming #homophobic Reposted from @affirmingyouthministries https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMQbxoszwY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[waycrosspride-blog]

#GayChurch is a great success! #Watch, #Like, #Share each week. . #lgbtq #pride🌈 #church #christian #queertheology #affirmingchurch (at Waycross, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7XIwGGhMA1/?igshid=13xzu9ehiaagw

#gaychurch #watch #like #share #lgbtq #pride🌈 #church #christian #queertheology #affirmingchurch

[thelifeafterorg]

#Deconstruction #queertheology🌈 #QueerTheology #Exvangelical https://www.instagram.com/p/CXG7wCrOj0G/?utm_medium=tumblr

#deconstruction #queertheology🌈 #queertheology #exvangelical

[oakandbarley-blog]

“my Christian parents love me, but don’t approve of me being gay.”

Your parent(s)’ love and support for you is incomplete if they haven’t abandoned their homophobic theology for your sake. If your parent says, “I love my child, but I can’t accept their lifestyle” then they’ve revealed their true loyalty as belonging to their beliefs - not their family. Some conservative Christians would call this commitment.

I’m a Christian and I call it wreckless and neglectful parenting.

#lgbtqchristian #queerchristian #christianity #parenting #lgbtq #queerfaith #queertheology

[gutterandthestars]

Ineffable Love is available to buy today! Our print launch has been delayed due to the current Situation, but you can get a half-price ebook copy here: https://www.dltebooks.com/product-page/ineffable-love The publishers, @dltbooks , is showcasing Ineffable Love on their blog this week, with a different extract every day Monday to Friday. Day one of the extracts is here, at the publisher’s blog: http://dartonlongmanandtodd.blogspot.com/2020/04/some-body-to-love.html?m=1 #IneffableLove #IneffableLoveBook #GoodOmens #GoodOmensFanart #IneffableHusbands #QueerTheology #CraftPrompts #Fanworks #BibleStudy #InclusiveChurch #exvangelical #BibleCommentary #TransRights #NonBinaryFinery #BisexualIntertextual #Ineffable https://www.instagram.com/p/B-6xpvoHUfn/?igshid=1n298a1d9gat6

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[churchoutaz]

Now, more than ever we’re relying on community to get us through hard times. Lord of all, watch over us. Help us be the church for each other. #churchout #queertheology #queeraffirming #lgbtqia #queerministry #queer #queerlife #church #theology #affirming #churchlife #community #lgbtaffirming #faithfullyqueer #lesbian #gay #pansexual #asexual #trans #transaffirming #christian #spiritual #religion #religious #phoenixarizona #arizona #phoenix #phoenixchurch #arizonachurch #faith (at Phoenix, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-FkMh9h59A/?igshid=10iktdcibius5

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[nataliewiggstevenson]

#marina abramović #theartistispresent #theology #performanceart #devotion #queertheology #feministtheology #faith #doubt

[swissmath]

Day 1 of training for the upcoming Buddhist Bicycle Pilgrimage I signed up for at the end of September. Embedding myself on the ride to photograph for my ongoing long term project about trans faith leaders. Will be following Adhamh and his queer team of Buddhists, meditators, and mindfulness folks. Adhamh is currently in seminary to become a hospice chaplain from a Buddhist tradition. Super excited to keep sharing his story and looking forward to a fun bike adventure! If you have any tips for bike training, please send them my way. #thesalgufiles #bikefiles #americanriverparkway #freelancelife #queer #trans #faith #transfaithleaders #buddhistbicyclepilgrimage #queertheology #sendbiketrainingtipsplease (at American River Parkway, Sacramento) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2NYWIsFpaZ/?igshid=10dmtb7cvvl88

#thesalgufiles #bikefiles #americanriverparkway #freelancelife #queer #trans #faith #transfaithleaders #buddhistbicyclepilgrimage #queertheology #sendbiketrainingtipsplease