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…
Tag Archive for Queer Theology
LGBT Bloggers Write on “The Queer God”.
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…
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…
Intersex, Women Bishops, and the Body of Christ
The story of Rev. Sally / Selwyn Gross neatly encapsulates the challenges of intersex people to Roman Catholic rules on the ordination of women. Male-identified at birth, Selwyn was raised as male, and became a Catholic priest. When medical tests…
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…
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…
New Books Explore Homosexuality and the Church
The first notable books on theology appeared something like forty years ago. Since then, the early thin trickle has become a steady stream, as Publishers Weekly has observed: Religious movements often build on a variety of texts: key scriptures, treatises,…
Queering the Bible
The Bible is Subversive The main, underlying message of the Bible is in fact subversive, often going against the established order in human society. Scripture is like a crowbar that rips open any structure not based on justice, love and respect…
Queer Theology as “Radical Love”- Patrick Cheng
Gay and lesbian theology has been around as a distinctive sub-discipline of theology for several decades. Later, Queer Theology developed with its own distinctive identity, as Stuart describes in “Gay & Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions With Critical Difference“, a book I…
