These resources offer approachable and accessible entry points to decipher Biblical perspectives on LGBTQIA+ inclusion, as well as opportunities to dive deeper into a theological imagination with queer people firmly in the heart of God’s love. If you have a resource to share or don’t see one that would be helpful for you please contact us.
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Our Father, Who Art Our Mother : The (Open) Secret Queer History of God. Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal...
The God of ancient Israel—universally referred to in the masculine today—was understood by its earliest worshipers to be a dual-gendered, male-female deity. So argues Mark Sameth in The Name. Needless to say, this is no...
Transfigured: A 40-day Journey through Scripture for Genderqueer and Transgender People, Suzanne DeWitt Hall Transfigured offers a 40-day exploration of scripture through the lens of a God who is the designer of gender in...
As an openly lesbian Episcopal priest and professional advocate for LGBTQ justice, the Reverend Elizabeth Edman has spent her career grappling with the core tenets of her faith. After deep reflection on her tradition,...
Transfigured offers a 40-day exploration of scripture through the lens of a God who is the designer of gender in all it’s magnificent variety. While reading it you’ll encounter a Creator who is both...
In ‘Queering Christ’, Robert E. Goss summarizes a decade of his thinking as a queer Christian theologian, sharing his queering of four critical areas: sexuality, Christ, the Bible, and theology. These areas form the...
Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches’ energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women’s bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior...
“Patrick Cheng’s Radical Love is an excellent introduction to queer theology. It is readable and nuanced, a marvelous teaching resource.” —Carter Heyward, author of Keep Your Courage: A Radical Christian Feminist Speaks and Professor Emerita of Theology, Episcopal...
Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film,...
John Boswell’s National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among...
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified...
The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology In The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology, this startling original work of historical detection, Mark D. Jordan explores the invention of Sodomy by medieval Christendom, examining...
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates...
Five-star ratings abound on Amazon.com for The Kairos, a modern-day suspense novel dealing with Jesus, homosexuality, and the power of fundamentalist religions. For 40 years, the two primary Dead Sea Scrolls scholars – Dr....
