Sinopsis
Resources & Inspiration for LGBTQ Christians, Church Leaders, and Allies
Episodios
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Forgiveness is with you – Psalm 130
29/06/2018 Duración: 09minRead the transcript (PDF) Referenced in the ep: Queer Theology resources 3-part video series on self-care even more self-care resources Psalm 130 I cry out to you from the depths, Lord— my Lord, listen to my voice! Let your ears pay close attention to my request for mercy! If you kept track of sins, Lord— […]
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Even When Your Family Doesn’t Get It: Mark 3:20-35 – Throwback
07/06/2018 Duración: 07minOur second-ever throwback episode… this time as a 2nd, bonus episode for the week. This episode originally aired in 2015. If you enjoy the podcast, you can help us reach more people by leaving a review of the show on iTunes. Visit queertheology.com/review and it’ll take you there! This week Brian and Fr. Shay tackle a passage […]
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When liberation turns into oppression – 1 Samuel 8
05/06/2018 Duración: 06minThis story is about a marginalized group of people finding a bit of liberation, then seeking to recreate some of the very systems they escaped, and in the process turning their back on God and oppressing themselves. In this week’s episode, we explain the meaning and significance of this story and explore what it might […]
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Christians & LGBT people carry death in our bodies – 2 Corinthians 4:5-12
30/05/2018 Duración: 08minLGBTQ people are intimately with pain, suffering, trauma, and death; it’s part of our collective history and for many of us, it’s part of our personal history too. This passage talks about how Christians “carry Jesus’ death around in our bodies” and that is something LGBTQ Christians are particularly suited to viscerally understand. In this […]
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How to enter the Kingdom of God – John 3:1-17
25/05/2018 Duración: 10minThis passage starts off talking about being born again” … what does that mean? And why must one be “born again” in order to enter the Kingdom of God? And what about Matthew 19 where Jesus says a rich person can’t enter the Kingdom of God and must sell everything and give it to the […]
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Bodies Matter – Ezekiel 37:1-14 – #Throwback
17/05/2018 Duración: 06minWe’re trying something new with the Queer Theology Lectionary Podcast… our first ever throwback episode. We first released this episode on Ezekiel 4 years ago. It’s one of the texts for this week’s lectionary and we know many of you weren’t tuned in 4 years ago so we wanted to give you an opportunity to […]
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The Truly Happy Person – Psalm 1
08/05/2018 Duración: 05minWhat does it take to be a happy person and lead a righteous life? We think there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to this psalm. Read the transcript (PDF) Psalm 1 The truly happy person doesn’t follow wicked advice, doesn’t stand on the road of sinners, and doesn’t sit with the disrespectful. […]
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Divine Revelation & Respectability Politics – Acts 10
01/05/2018 Duración: 09minPeter has a vision and realizes that the lines he drew around what was clean and unclean, pure and impure, in and out, needed to move. We see this again and again in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. It’s a process that continues even to this day. Read the transcript (PDF) In this episode, we […]
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Something new is happening here – Acts 8:26 – 40
24/04/2018 Duración: 08minIt’s easy to think of Christian doctrine as eternal and unchanging, but we see throughout Scripture that our understanding of God, our relationship to the divine, and our relationship with each other shift and grow. That happens over the course of Jesus’s ministry and even after, such as in this passage in Acts. In this […]
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This is his commandment… – 1 John 3:16-24
17/04/2018 Duración: 11minIn this episode, we take a look at what it means to be a follower of Jesus, as told by 1 John. The text tells us to love with action, not words. What does that mean? How does belief fit in with action? Is there a heart change involved too? Read the transcript (PDF) Links […]
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Faith into praxis, politics into activism
10/04/2018 Duración: 08minIn this episode, we reflect on what we’ve learned from 2 months of looking at the politics of Jesus and look ahead to what we’ll be focusing on next: activism. How does our faith turn into praxis? How does the politics of Jesus motivate us into and guide our activism? Read the transcript (PDF) As […]
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How to handle tough feelings on your faith journey
03/04/2018 Duración: 12minWhen talking about deeply held religious beliefs, it’s only human for all sorts of emotions to dust up. If we’re going to grow as Christians and live into a healthy faith, we need to be able to examine our beliefs to make sure that they’re serving us and serving God. In this episode, we explore […]
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Holy Week 2018
28/03/2018 Duración: 05minWe’re smack in the middle of Holy Week and want to make sure you hear these two messages!
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Crucify him! – Mark 15:1-15
20/03/2018 Duración: 11minToo often, government protects the already-powerful, rather than the vulnerable who need protection. This week, we take a look at the trial of Jesus and uncover the religious and the political meanings inherent in this story. If you’re interested in learning more about “why Jesus died,” we’re doing a webinar on atonement on Tuesday April […]
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“They tried to bury us…” – John 12:20-33
13/03/2018 Duración: 09minHere are some highlights from this week’s episode: “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” – poet Dinos Christianopoulos When you do what is right, it has repercussions that are so much bigger than you might live to see, and you do it anyway We’re reading The Last Week in Sanctuary […]
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The Politics of Jesus
06/03/2018 Duración: 12minThe personal is political and everything is religious. In this episode, we begin to tease out the political implications of our spiritual conversions to following the way of Jesus. Read the transcript (PDF) There’s a lot to discover when it comes to the politics of Jesus, so we’ll be talking about it for the next […]
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Collaborating with the empire – John 2:13-22
04/03/2018 Duración: 09minIn this episode, we look at the story of Jesus turning over tables in the temple, as told by John. Why did he do this, who exactly was he protesting, and what can his actions teach us about how we live our lives today? In the podcast, we mentioned that we’re reading The Last Week by Marcus Borg and […]
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What will you give in exchange for your life? – Mark 8:31-38
20/02/2018 Duración: 09minThis week, we tease out the tension between “living a good Christian life” as has been come to be defined by the white, straight, conservative status quo and the consequences of following Jesus’s message. We also look at “taking up your” cross and what that means. Following Christ is risky, but in the end, we […]
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Figuring out your relationship with God – Mark 1:9-15
13/02/2018 Duración: 07minIn Mark’s gospel, Jesus gets his understanding of himself and his mission confirmed by God… and then forced out into the wilderness. He is baptized into a movement by John the Baptist, who is then arrested. It’s tempting to see “figuring out” ourselves, our call, and our relationship with God as the goal, but in […]
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LGBTQ Christians reflect the glory of Jesus Christ – 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
06/02/2018 Duración: 11minIn this episode, we are challenged by 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 to inspect our faith, our lives, our churches, our communities, and our politics to see if it truly reflects the glory of God and Jesus Christ. Read the transcript (PDF) Show notes This is God’s good news This is my good news… Change your heart […]