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Queer Clergy Trading Cards feature Kittredge Cherry
Kittredge Cherry, founder of the Jesus in Love Blog, is featured on a new Queer Clergy Trading Card. The cards are a fun way to bring more visibility to LGBTQ ministers. Queer clergy look cool on...
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Ash Wednesday: Queer martyrs rise from the ashes
Dutch massacre of sodomites, detail (Wikimedia Commons)Today on Ash Wednesday queer martyrs rise from the ashes as we recall the thousands who were executed for homosexuality throughout history. This...
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Marcella Althaus-Reid: Queer theology pioneer
Marcella Althaus-Reid Marcella Althaus-Reid was a queer theologian whose controversial books include “Indecent Theology” and “The Queer God.” Born in Argentina, she became the first woman appointed to...
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RIP Malcolm Boyd: Pioneering gay Episcopal priest dies at 91
Pioneering gay Episcopal priest Malcolm Boyd died today (Feb. 27) under hospice care in Los Angeles. He was 91. I knew Malcolm personally as a fellow author, a colleague in LGBT ministry, and a...
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Peter Gomes: Gay black Harvard minister preached "scandalous gospel"
“The Rev. Peter Gomes, of Plymouth, 1942 – 2011” by Jon Dorn Peter Gomes was a gay black Baptist minister at Harvard and one of America’s most prominent spiritual voices against intolerance. Gomes...
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New LGBTQ Christian books: March 2015
Novels“Between These Walls: A Novel” by John Herrick. A young Christian man confronts his fears when his secret attraction to men is exposed in “Between These Walls: A Novel” by John Herrick. The...
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Sacred gay union with Christ evoked by music of New-Age “Passion of Mark”
Jesus initiates a young man into God’s mysteries with a rite of spiritual and erotic union in a musical Passion play by New-Age composer Christopher A. Flores and gay lyricist/priest Adrian Ravarour....
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Esther, Vashti and eunuchs on Purim: Queer models for such a time as this
Queen Esther by Jim Padgett, Distant Shores Media/Sweet Publishing (Wikimedia Commons) Queen Esther, a role model for LGBTQ people, helped save the Jews from destruction in ancient Persia, an event...
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Perpetua and Felicity: Patron saints of same-sex couples
Saints Perpetua and FelicityBy Brother Robert Lentz, OFM, www.trinitystores.com Saints Perpetua and Felicity were brave North African woman friends who were executed for their Christian faith in the...
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Gay centurion: Jesus heals a soldier’s boyfriend in the Bible
“Traces of His Presence” by Eric Martin Jesus praised a gay soldier as a model of faith and healed his male lover in the gospels, according to many Bible experts. The soldier, a centurion in the Roman...
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New Queer Christ video created for ReLENT online series
A new video introduces the queer Christ in an accessible, inviting way with LGBT Christian art and short quotes from queer theologians, including Jesus in Love founder Kittredge Cherry.The...
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John Boswell: Historian of gays and lesbians in Christianity
John Boswell John Boswell (1947-1994) was a prominent scholar who researched and wrote about the importance of gays and lesbians in Christian history. He was born 68 years ago today on March 20, 1947....
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From Selma to Palm Sunday: A gay vision
News photos of the recent Selma march bear an uncanny resemblance to the Palm Sunday painting in a gay vision of Christ’s Passion painted 14 years ago. President Obama led the crowd marching across...
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Adrienne Rich: lesbian poet with spiritual impulses
Adrienne Rich portrait by Sharon McGill Adrienne Rich, a lesbian feminist and one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, died three years ago today on March 27, 2012 at age 82. Her writing...
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Gay Passion of Christ series starts Sunday
“The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision” by Douglas Blanchard on display (Photo by Dorie Hagler) A gay vision of Christ’s Passion starts this Sunday here at the Jesus in Love Blog. New posts will run...
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Day 1: Jesus with the prophets (Gay Passion of Christ series)
1. The Son of Man with Job and Isaiah (from The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision) by Douglas Blanchard“God has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening...
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Day 1: Jesus Enters the City on Palm Sunday (Gay Passion of Christ series)
2 Jesus Enters the City(from The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision) by Douglas Blanchard“And when he entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, ‘Who is this?’ And the crowds said, ‘This is the...
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Gay Passion of Christ debated today at HuffPost
Heated debate erupted today when Huffington Post ran a major article and slideshow on the gay Passion of Christ. More than 4,600 people "liked" it, but many of the 1,300 comments condemn it as...
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Day 2: Jesus drives out the money changers and preaches in the Temple (Gay...
3. Jesus Drives Out the Money Changers (from The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision) by Douglas Blanchard“He poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.” -- John 2:13 (RSV) An...
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Day 3: Jesus has a Last Supper, prays alone and is arrested (Gay Passion of...
5. The Last Supper (from The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision) by Douglas Blanchard Collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Gift of Vincent Palange in memory of Louis Prudenti““And...
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