Don’t look for answers from those who haven’t even inquired.
I Read This Sh*t So You Don’t Have To: Jackie Hill Perry
Tag: Church & Fellowships
Sabotaging the Empire
Some of us may be yearning for the kin-dom but frustrated by jobs, family, communities, or circumstances that feel more like the Empire. But like the Galen Ersos and the magi of our lives, we also have opportunities to sabotage the Empire through our daily efforts...
Queer Christians: We Also Need the Church
Church is hard. I’ve never met more people with whom I disagree and people I don’t understand than I have at church. I’ve been disappointed in church, and I’ve disappointed others in church. Church costs time, energy, and money. It asks me to make choices I don’t want to make and to interrogate those choices thereafter. Zora’s good at most of this. Me, I’ve got farther to go. And that’s why I belong here.
Why My Family Will Always Fear
"Lately, my faith has been teaching me to better embrace grief. The Bible is filled with examples of deep mourning: the loss of a homeland, the loss of political independence, the loss of a child, the loss of a Savior. These are not happy stories..."
Crafting the Statement on God’s Justice: Why Not Us?
It’s been a week now since the release of the Statement on God’s Justice. Over 1,000 signatures later, I ask myself what the Statement has meant and what it will mean.
The Sacrament of the Queer Wedding: A Scrapbook
Our wedding was a sacrament. In the Christian tradition, all weddings are sacraments. And queer weddings are sacraments too and are sacraments especially.
How My Keepers Kept Me: On Mental Illness & Mental Healing
Last winter, Zora had asked me to write about mental health. I couldn’t finish the post. I was scared and ashamed.
The Devil’s in the Disappointment
...Both translations of disappointment hurt because they incite us to determine our own self-worth with the never-satisfied measuring stick of our perceived worth to others.
Que(e)ries, Round 2: Are We Christians or Bible-Worshipers?
One of the most common hurts we hear about stems from beliefs about the Bible: the anchor text of our faith. So in this post, we offer...
How to Set a Fire & Build with the Ashes: My Story of InterVarsity, Queerness, and the Danger of “Dialogue”
This is about my relationship with InterVarsity, how a light became a fire, and how the ashes became something new.
