Here’s a worthwhile project I wish I had known about before. While exploring the LGBT blogger links in Slacktivist’s list, I came across reference to the Anarchist Reverend’s “Queer Theology Synchroblog 2012“, for which he had issued an open invitation…
Gay & Lesbian Theology
“The Times, They Are A-Changing” – And How!
Late last night, I joined a BBC WM (West Midlands) phone – in programme, the Graham Torrington Late Show. Every week, the show discusses an aspect of love, sex and relationships. This week, the subject was changes in gay lives over…
Queer Theology, Spirituality: An “Old Catholic” Perspective
On my QTC Facebook page, the Most Reverend Lou A. Bordisso, bishop emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of California and a member of the (Old Catholic) Order of St. John Vianney, left a link to an article he has written at Benedicia…
The Grace of Queer Theory (and Queer Theology)
“….the grace of “queer” theory is that it says “very well then, instead of tolerating them and putting them in a box aside or discriminating against them as certain fundamentalists do, and persecuting them and punishing them, and even killing…
Row over Women Speakers for ‘Catholic Voices’
A row has erupted over speakers chosen by ‘Catholic Voices’ for their next training session about Women in the Church. ‘Catholic Voices’ is the lay media mouthpiece of the English and Welsh Catholic Bishops. The topic has extra relevance right…
Remembering Marcella Althaus – Reid, “Indecent Theologian”
Theologian Marcella Althaus – Reid died February 20th 2009, after a theological journey that began with the study and practice of liberation theology in the slums of Argentina under the military junta, and ended as Professor of Contextual Theology at…
Liberate Me, Liberate You: The Preferential Option for the Queer
Academic Phillip Berryman has called liberation theology, “an interpretation of Christian faith through the poor’s suffering, their struggle and hope, and a critique of society and the Catholic faith and Christianity through the eyes of the poor.”1 Gay liberation was…
The Pleasure Principle (Part 2 – A Paradigm for Sexual Transgression)
[Part 1 of this post here. I am indebted to Christopher King’s chapter on the “Song of Songs” (hereafter SOS) in the Queer Bible Commentary (hereafter QBC; pages 356-70) for his insights on this most controversial of biblical books] I…
Pride and Joy!
Gay Pride events culminate this week (roughly from the last weekend in June to the first weekend in July, with today, 27 June being the actual anniversary). I have often wondered why the word Pride is used to mark the…
The Fruit of the Spirit, and the Well-rounded Character
Having prayed for the Spirit of God to fill our hearts and guide our lives, it’s time to take the message of Pentecost further. In fact, what I’d like to do is address an issue I’d been studying over the…
