This week many Christians around the world are walking through Holy Week; a time when we remember the walk of Jesus toward Jerusalem where he would be killed by the state as a threat to…
Essays
What Does Resurrection Even Mean?
Years ago I read a book called “Surprised by Hope” by NT Wright. Wright is a Bishop in the Anglican church. He’s a complicated figure because in some respects his theology is grounded in scholarship…
Saying the Scary Thing
Call it being a Libra, call it the aftermath of religious trauma, call it growing up in high control religion, blame it on any one of those things (or any combination), but I have spent…
Seeking Communal Transformation
We are currently just about a week into the Lenten season for those who observe. I did not grow up in a church that observed Lent. We mostly observed the crucifixion (with a small head…
For when you’re joining the conversation late…
Brian and I started QueerTheology.com in 2013. By that time both of us had been engaged in church work for years: Brian had completed the Equality Ride and done activism work at Christian colleges, I had finished…
the power of the symbol
Christmas morning was the only day of the year that I woke up early. Which was fine except my parents had a strict rule “no waking them up until 9am”. But what I could do…
For when you’re feeling anxious and afraid
I’m not gonna lie, it’s a scary time. It seems like every day brings a new disaster; political, environmental, interpersonal (and some days brings all of them all at once). I know people who are…
For the welfare of the city where you live
There is a text in Jeremiah 29:1,4-7 that always makes me think. In it the prophet Jeremiah writes a letter to a bunch of people who have been carried off into exile. They are far…
Do You Believe In God
It’s strange how one sentence can trigger a flood of memories. Do you believe in God? I’m reading Pádraig Ó Tuama’s collection of poetry called Kitchen Hymns and he has a series of poems that are titled…
I ended up on the wrong side of Facebook
The other day I had a couple of Facebook posts get shared a whole bunch and thereby end up on the wrong side of the algorithms. I checked in to find hundreds of comments. There…