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An ambitious queer reading of John of the Cross
Miguel Díaz takes the medieval mystic’s sexual metaphors for spirituality seriously—along with the lived experience of LGBTQ people.
Episode 2: We are interconnected | A conversation with Pamela Lightsey
We have a responsiblity to agitate for justice, but we can't lose our love for the human soul and its dignity in the midst of that work.
Doing theology with the assumption that queer people belong
Linn Marie Tonstad summarizes a far more interesting conversation about sex and gender than the one I grew up with.
by Philip Christman
Bruised and blessed by scripture
My hermeneutic of suspicion wasn’t enough. I needed a hermeneutic of the hip.
by Emmy Kegler
In college, I changed my name to Rachel. It didn't stick.
Struggling with whether to abandon my Korean name made me think about the queerness in all of our identities.
by Mihee Kim-Kort
Marcella Althaus-Reid recounts her dreams from the afterlife
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
by Mark D. Jordan