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“Ready or Not, Here I Come!”

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Waking to this truth empowers LGBTQ+ Catholics to be watchful of God's enduring presence in our lives, and it helps us cultivate a readiness to encounter the Spirit. Read More

Finding New Ways Beyond Shame and Honor

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To encounter today’s Gospel, we need to recognize that these systems in which we dwell are based on the practice of honor and shame. Read More

On Synodality and Awakening

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Are we awake? Is the Church awake? Is the Church a foolish bridesmaid or a wise one? Read More

Be Cautious in Trusting Secular ‘Kings’

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This issue has been a tangled mess for us in the queer segment of the population. Difficulties arise from both the “wall of separation” and from the “inherently intertwined” points of view. Read More

Imagining the Feminist and LGBTQ-Affirming Sacramentality of a Synodal Church

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My image of a synodal church, however distant it may be, includes women preaching and ministering the Gospel during the blessing of LGBTQ marriage. Read More

“You Have Made Them Equal to Us”

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God’s ways, however, are different from our human ways. Much to our shock and horror, God insists on everyone being treated truly as equals. Read More

Suffering for the Truth, Flourishing in the Truth

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These acts of being LGBTQ+ and ally “minor prophets” have begun to create the kind of world many of us hope for, and that I believe God is hoping for. Read More

A “Key to the Kingdom” for Queer Liberation

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Too many LGBTQ individuals have felt so bound by the judgements of the Church that they do not dare approach God. Read More

A House of Prayer for ALL Peoples

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It is not hard to make the leap from the Canaanite Foreigner to those of us who identify as LGBTQIA+. Read More

Sweat the Small Stuff

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These small steps are easy to sneer at as performative or vacuous, and they can be without ongoing learning and change. But more so they are little hints of divine queer futurity, signs of another possible world. Read More