Queer Theology

In this week’s podcast we interview Kaya Oakes, author of the new book “The Nones Are All Right”. We talk about what it means to be religious, how we build community, and more. Check out this week’s special podcast. The post The Nones Are All Right: an interview with Kaya Oakes appeared first on Queer Theology.

In this week’s podcast Brian and Fr. Shay talk about the power of morning prayer and meditation. What does this Psalm teach us about beginning our day? How can we set good intentions for our lives? Listen in! Read the transcript (PDF) Photo by Nithi clicks The post Make the Work of Our Hands Last: Psalm 90:12-17 appeared first on Queer Theology.

What does it mean to be childlike? What can we learn from children in our worship spaces? Brian and Fr. Shay talk about the meaning of children in this week’s podcast. Photo by Tom Maisey The post Welcome the Children: Mark 10:2-16 appeared first on Queer Theology.

Talk about a mic drop! The author of James lays it all out in this week’s lectionary text. How does this text speak to queer and trans people? What do we do with texts that are at once comforting and challenging? We struggling through this passage together. Photo by Adib Roy The post Weep and Moan: James 5:1-6 appeared first on Queer Theology.

In this week’s podcast Brian and Fr. Shay talk about one of the “angry Psalms”. Can there be a space for anger in faith? What is the place for anger/rage? How does this Psalm speak to queer/trans people? All that and more in this week’s podcast! Read the transcript (PDF) Psalm 54 For the music leader. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding among us?” God! Save me by your name; defend me by your might! God! Hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth! The proud have come up against me; violent people want me dead. They pay no attention to God. Selah But look here: God is my helper; my Lord sustains my life. He will bring disaster on my opponents. By your faithfulness, God, destroy them! I will sacrifice to you freely; I will give thanks to your name, Lord, because it’s so good, and because God has delivered me from every distress. My eyes have seen my enemies’ defeat. The post A Place for Anger: Psalm 54 appeared first on Queer Theology.

This passage from James takes on the idea that you can believe things without living them out. What good are intentions if actions don’t back them up? What does it mean to really live out your faith in the world? How is this passage both comforting and challenging at the same time? All this and more on this week’s podcast. The post Faith Without Works Is Dead: James 2:14-18 appeared first on Queer Theology.

This week’s lectionary passage sounds like it could have been written yesterday. With problems of favoritism still popping up in our churches and political movements, how do we move forward? In this week’s podcast Brian and Fr. Shay talk about respectability, favoritism, and more. Photo by Beth The post Who Do You Favor? // James 2:1-5 appeared first on Queer Theology.

What makes someone unclean? How does this passage about food relate to queer sex? Brian and Fr. Shay talk about being clean and what makes something clean or unclean.     Photo by: Sharon McCutcheon The post Does Queer Sex Make You Unclean? – Mark 7:1-8,14-15, 21-23 appeared first on Queer Theology.

Jesus gets a little snarky in this week’s Gospel reading and Brian and Fr. Shay respond. What happens when Jesus makes demands of the people following him? What does that have to do with us today? In this podcast we talk about solidarity, living on the margins, and more. The post Does this offend you? – John 6:60-69 appeared first on Queer Theology.

Why does it matter that Wisdom is personified as a woman? What can we learn from this passage? Who have been the people who have spoken wisdom into your life? Brian and Fr. Shay talk about all of this and more. Photo by MjZ Photography The post Wisdom is a Woman – Proverbs 9:1-6 appeared first on Queer Theology.