You Feel It in Your Bowels
Grace and nature, redemption and obedience: these are knit together in the sinews of your trans body.
Guest Contributor
Grace and nature, redemption and obedience: these are knit together in the sinews of your trans body.
When Henry embodied the radical welcoming and healing acted out by Jesus, and filled an entire church with it, so many were healed of their hurt.
How can our communities join in the pursuit of LGBTQ liberation this Lent? Here are some action items that you can advocate for in your community:
“Queerness in the Catholic Church” is an invitation to engage, an opportunity to listen, and an example of how we can work toward building a community marked by desire, love, and blessedness.
Because I am a Catholic physician, I spent many hours discerning whether it was morally acceptable to treat transgender children.
What do we see when confronted with contemporary, sacred, trans*figured, embodied persons? How do we take the initiative in learning more about trans* identities?
When you see a rainbow, what does it mean to you? How about a rainbow flag, banner, or even a pin on a government building, a home, or on another’s personal belongings?
Identifying with those on the margins, I don’t need nor want to defend myself. I am much freer here knowing I am blessed everyday walking with Jesus who chose to live on the margins.
What does it mean to have an obligation or purpose to preach the good news? Are we under the same obligation that Paul and Jesus were?
Already, each of us paved our own separate ways through exclusionary sentiments and doctrine in the Church to get to that room.
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