Review of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Habib is a queer Muslim, although she’s struggled to come to terms with both aspects of her identity. Her memoir is all about her journey toward embracing both.
Author: Jera Brown
Jera writes about sexuality, spirituality, and social justice. They are the author of Just the Tip, a queer-friendly, sex-positive, relationship advice column and the editor of Sacred and Subversive, a multifaith project offering queer perspectives on the future of faith communities.
The Future of the Mormon Church & Meaning After Belief
Johnny Townsend has published 34 books, almost all of them on the subject of gay and feminist Mormons. Six of his
Call for Submissions
Co-editors Jen Deerinwater and Jera Brown are seeking nonfiction pieces for book-length anthology. Sacred and Subversive will be published in print
Pagan inclusivity and consent
Interview with Wiccan author Yvonne Aburrow about inclusive Pagan communities and Pagan consent culture.
Queer, trans, and deacon: a reflection on being commissioned
I’ll be wearing my clergy collar after today – a lot. On most days, in fact. For sure there is a small element of “it’s been such a long, hard road, you better believe I’m gonna wear a collar.” But more so, its that being a deacon is embedded in my sense of self and identity. I have always been called to the intersections of church and society, to queer that bifurcation through word, service, compassion, and justice.
Q&A with Radical Dharma co-author Lama Rod Owens
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation is a conversation about, a call to, and a roadmap toward liberation. This
A Divided Person
I’m grateful to have grown up in a small factory town in Indiana, where everyone shopped at the same
A Christian Coming Out Story
I was twenty-three when I first heard a convincing argument that being gay might be OK with God. It was in a Sunday school class at a tiny church in the suburbs of Philadelphia where I was a paid vocalist in the choir.
Book Review: Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism
Rescuing Jesus by Deborah Jian Lee eloquently argues that no single majority opinion owns the evangelical tradition or the wider Christian faith.
A scarlet church
I want to be a part of communities that practice embracing this kind of queerness. In a community in which there are no norms, there are no black sheep.
Sacred and Subversive 