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Challenging.
Inclusive.
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Welcome to a website of free-to-use liturgy, poetry, and hymns oriented towards the liberation of all God’s good, embodied Creation.
To that end, language for human beings is inclusive (e.g. no use of “brothers and sisters” without including nonbinary “siblings”) and uplifts particular oppressed peoples (with an emphasis on queer and disabled persons)…
…while language for the Divine is expansive, employing a diversity of imagery and pronouns in order to honor God’s infinity and celebrate the Mystery glimpsed in each member of the Imago Dei.
I welcome correction, conversation, and collaboration. Together, let us worship the One who explodes our expectations and makes a home among the exploited and despised.
Latest from the Blog
John 10 & Acts 2: abundant life is anarchic life
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” John 10:10 If I had to pick a favorite single Bible verse that isn’t part of one of my favorite passages, John 10:10 would probably be it. In many ways it encapsulates Jesus’s ministry…
When normativity controls our vision: Emmaus through a queer & crip lens
The body of the risen Christ moves differently than it had before. The feet that carried Jesus across the entire Palestinian region now bear the wounds of crucifixion — his gait, his posture, his movement forever transformed.
Liberative lectionary: John 20’s enfleshed, disabled Christ
In rising with a physical body that retains its crucifixion wounds, Jesus demonstrated once and for all that our flesh is good, is part of what it means to be in God’s image; and that stigmatized bodies — especially disabled bodies — are not incompatible with divinity, but rather are intimately entwined with divinity.
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