- On queering worship — the why, the how, the theology
- Lectionary / preaching prep
- Actual Liturgy
- Music / hymns
(Have a queer / antiracist / anti-ableist, otherwise liberationist or justice-focused worship resource that’s not on this list?
Let me know at queerlychristian36@gmail.com!)
When aiming to expand understandings of the divine, it’s always good to gather as many voices as you can! So while I welcome you to use any of the liturgy, hymns, and preaching prep material you find here on my site, I also want to share places to find other people’s worship materials + lectionary / preaching prep.
To queer worship is not only to pay attention to gender identity and sexuality, but to interrogate all the ways our worship excludes and harms so that we may then cultivate worship that intentionally centers all marginalized people’s voices, gifts, and ways of being and moving in the world.
So while many of these resources will indeed focus on LGBTQIA+ subjects and creators, I also include resources that center BIPOC, disabled people, immigrants, and others who are too often denied full belonging even within communities of faith.
On queering worship — the why, the how, the theology
Here’s my essay on this topic.
Queering the Liturgy is a fantastic resource created by multiple queer ministers and theologians, divided into sections. You can find all sections at the above link; I’m pasting a selection below:
- Queering the Liturgy: Living the Essence of Our Faith — the why of queering liturgy
- On Liturgy: Queering Worship — the how of queering liturgy
- And Also with You: The Identity of the Worship Leader, and Why It Matters
- “Do No Harm”: One Congregation’s Process of Revising Liturgical Language
- On Music: The Queerness of Church Music
- On the Arts: Rupture, Art, and Queering the Liturgy
(Note: Call to Worship offers a limited number of free articles before asking you to subscribe. You can get to a few more by opening links in a private browser; but if you / your church has the budget for it, this is a worthwhile journal to subscribe to!)
Queering Christian Worship provides new imagination and tools to those who study and curate Christian worship across traditions.
The book is organized into three main parts:
- An introduction to queer engagement with ritual practices,
- Case studies that examine queer texts and contexts,
- An examination of the horizons of queer liturgical theology and practice.
Queer Grace is Rev. Emmy Kegler’s website collecting queer Christian resources of all kinds. Here are a few pertaining to worship:
Lectionary / preaching prep
Click here for my own preaching prep materials.
Out in Scripture is a collection of commentaries following the three-year calendar of the Revised Common lectionary readings through an LGBTQ lens.
Year W: A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary
What would it look like if women built a lectionary focusing on women’s stories?
What does it look like to tell the good news through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news? How would a lectionary centering women’s stories, chosen with womanist and feminist commitments in mind, frame the presentation of the scriptures for proclamation and teaching?
The scriptures are androcentric, male-focused, as is the lectionary that is dependent upon them. As a result, many congregants know only the biblical men’s stories told in the Sunday lectionary read in their churches. A more expansive, more inclusive lectionary will remedy that by introducing readers and hearers of scripture to “women’s stories” in the scriptures.
Materials that center marginalized voices.
Actual Liturgy
More Light Presbyterians’ Pride 2026 liturgy
Scroll down this page of resources for ministers to the liturgy section, where you’ll find liturgy and prayers for TDOV, TDOR, renaming ceremonies, and more.
Enfleshed’s Liturgy Library offers truly gorgeous, embodied worship materials from writers from various marginalized experiences. Explore all their stuff in the above link, or check out specific collections:
Another site that centers marginalized writers and artists! You can view materials by liturgical season, theme, or type.
Scroll down to the “for clergy” section of this webpage for liturgy for Pride services, renaming ceremonies, weddings, and more.
A Place in God’s Heart: A Place at Christ’s Table is the Open and Affirming Coalition‘s archive of liturgies and music from the ecumenical Welcoming Church movement.
- Note: much of this liturgy still makes use of binary language like “brothers and sisters.” I advise revising that language (e.g. to “sisters, brothers, and nonbinary siblings,” “kin in Christ,” “beloved community,” or other alternatives) if you make use of this liturgy.
Beyond Worship seeks to show LGBTQIA+ people that they are divine, here for a reason, and have so much to contribute to their communities.
Whether a poem, a short story, a psalm, a meditative guide, or an academic paper, each LGBTQIA+ author in this anthology explores what it means to find community and love in a society that tells them they are undeserving of both. From all over the world and from a variety of faith traditions, each author’s piece shows readers different ways of being in a world worth experiencing.
Black Liturgies is a project that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body. You can find them on places like Instagram, or in an upcoming book.
These pieces are written by queer Black woman Cole Arthur Riley, who also wrote This Here Flesh.
Music / hymns
Click here for my revised hymns.
Songs for the Holy Other — original, queer affirming hymns