#FaithfullyLGBT

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

In light of the latest Vatican document* wrapping queerphobia up in “loving” language, I want to remind all my fellow queer & trans Catholics (and Catholic-adjacent folks) that no human words can erase our sacred truth. We are beloved by the God who delights in diversity and calls us good.

If you need some reassurance or resources, wander through my #queer and Catholic tag.

*please be kind to yourself; you don't need to read the document. It's all the usual harmful stuff. If you have read it or know what's in it: I'm sending you so much love.

[a-queer-seminarian]

More Light Presbyterians, a queer advocacy group for the PCUSA denomination, is holding a virtual Pride service on Sunday, June 9th! Come if you can — I and two other queer folks will be preaching short sermons, Flamy will be leading us in song, and I can guarantee it'll be a fabulous time.

Message me for the Zoom registration link!

[trans-bread-of-life]

Happy Easter and happy Trans Day of Visibility!

On this day we celebrate the beauty, resiliency, and strength of the trans community, and we celebrate the fact that the grave could not contain the Son of God.

This year more than ever, the trans community is in need of hope. With visibility comes retaliation; and we are fighting against a wave of anti-trans governmental policies across the world.

The photo was taken last night at the Great Vigil of Easter. At the Great Vigil, we light a fire to symbolize the hope of the Resurrection, and each of us sits in the dark with candles, listening to stories of hope as we wait for the moment when we can proclaim Christ’s resurrection.

I chose to use this photo to talk about the Trans Day of Visibility because we in the trans community are sitting in the dark with glimmers of hope in our hands, waiting, hoping, praying (and working) for a day when our basic human rights are no longer under attack. We are waiting for a day when all members of our community can use public bathrooms, receive medical care, have equal access to housing and employment, and so much more.

But I think the joyful dawning of Easter morning has something to say to us, too. Jesus, God’s only Son, chose to take on human flesh and live in solidarity with humanity. Just as we face political violence, so did Jesus. He was publicly executed as a political dissident, a threat to the power of empire. But even death itself could not conquer him. He rose from the grave, his body bearing the scars of the hell that could not hold him, redeeming the human condition from the hatred and cruelty, even from death itself.

In light of Jesus’ resurrection, we can rejoice that the violence against the trans community will not have the final word. Jesus rose again and is seated above all powers and governments of this world. We can (and must) stand up against state violence because God‘s love is stronger than violence, hatred, strife, and even death itself.

[createdgay]

[sidebsapphic]

hey!! you can call me veronica. 24, she/her prns.

nondenominational Christian (raised baptist), side b sapphic (specifically bisexual), & lover of silly things, like cartoons and anime.

toga will survive the war arc! (delusional)

anyways, i had a side b blog years ago, but i took it down. no big controversy or hate train or anything. i think i wasn’t “serious” abt dedicating every part of myself to God. i still cling to manmade identities and escapist relationships.

anyways, i’d love to get to know more side b Christians, and Christians in general <3 since my last blog (sidebchristian) i’ve grown a lot in my local church community irl, and i want to be part of a Christian community online as well.

God is good, you are loved beyond measure, and Jesus Christ thinks you’re to die for. 💌

[briefblueseason]

what about pray for more gay

[faithfullyfem]

Self-love says, “I deserve to live in wholeness because I’m already whole.” When you love someone like you love yourself, you believe them when they tell you they’re whole, too. Love says, “You belong deeply to yourself, and I’ll honor that.” Love affirms love.

[fratresdei]

*marriage material*

[achilleanfemme]

A Prayer at the Start of Advent

Heavenly Sovereign, 

Mother of Peace,

My heart aches and my heart yearns on this first day of Advent 2022.

Aching and yearning are two tremendously Adventen emotions. At the time of Jesus’ birth, Mary and Joseph, Palestinian Jews living under brutal Roman occupation, yearned for safety as they prepared to bring the Son of God into the world. Mary and Joseph ached because they knew that the time and place that they were bringing their new child into was not one of harmony, but one of violence and suffering. Yet they fled and fought, and with God’s help, baby Jesus was born. A new star in the midnight sky, a new dawn coming forth from an evil age setting on the horizon. The story of Christ’s coming is a story of hope in the face of immense grief.

Just one week after the shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, it feels like we have entered into a new battlefield with the MAGA Right in the USA, and trans and queer lives are on the frontlines. 

I am afraid, Dear God. 

How is one expected to carry the weight of the fear of never feeling safe in public? How does one march onward when it feels like the future is narrowing and your existence is not a part of that future? How does one put on the armor of light in the midst of such immense darkness? I want to know, Beloved Creator. 

Please give me a sign. 

Jesus, King of Glory everlasting, please give me the gift of wisdom in the days ahead. I sense the vipers slithering just out of sight, gathering strength. I hear the past talking through me in my day-to-day interactions with people and I don’t like what it is saying:

“Give up. Retreat. Hide. Run. Lash out. Don’t trust. Don’t love.” 

If these words can cut like knives then please help me beat these blades into plowshares. Free me from the ghouls that haunt my innermost thoughts. Aid me in moving towards your pearly gates of love and liberation.

God of Mercy, I know that salvation is nearer now than it was when I became a believer. Grant me the courage to truly see the manger, to see the palm branches, to see the cross, and to see the empty tomb as symbols of what they are: a promise of ultimate mercy and unending love. I want to see Christ’s example of forgiveness and make it my own. Help me to let go of old wounds. Help me to want the best for the people that I despise the most for if they are living a prosperous, joyful life then that means that I am probably much better off too. I cannot see the path to this destination God, ask your Holy Spirit to light it for me. I do not want to hold on to hate, for if I did, I know the weight would break me. 

Lead me on, Father, lead me on.

It’s easy to see the growing darkness of the days in Advent as a sign of Death and Darkness. Help me to instead hear dusk as a call to rest, to renew. Just as you made the Sabbath, Lord, let this Advent be for me, a season of slowness, gentleness, and love. 

Help me also to keep awake, for Christmas is coming, and I can hear murmurings of the Chorus of Heavenly Hosts in the distance, singing, “Emmanuel, Prince of Peace, Wager of Love, has come and He will never leave again. Alleluia! Alleluia!”

Amen

[barefootchaos]

Are you a transgender person interested in talking about your experiences of Catholicism, faith, and spirituality? 

Kori Pacyniak, a trans Catholic PhD candidate at University of California, Riverside is conducting an ethnographic study on the lived religious experiences of transgender Catholics. 

To be eligible to participate, you need to self-identify as transgender and catholic*, 18 or older, speak English, and live in U.S. 

** By trans, we include trans, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, gender non-conforming, etc. ; By Catholic, we include Roman Catholic, Independent Catholic, lapsed Catholic, recovering Catholic, ex-catholic, etc. - If Catholicism has played a part in your life, you are probably eligible to participate. 

View the research flyer here

Participation involves a 60-90 minute zoom interview which will include questions about faith, gender, spirituality, and catholicism. All participants will have the chance to review transcripts of their interviews and may withdraw from the study at any time. View the informed consent form here.

To schedule an interview, visit https://calendly.com/kpacyniak/transcatholics

[earlsings]

✝️❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ God delights in you. 💜 [Image Descriptions: Graphic with a pink and yellow gradient background with the above statement in white text centered. Certain letters are replaced with colorful shapes and there is a wavy line on the left side of the text.] #faithfullylgbt#lgbt#christian#gay#gaychristian#queer#queerchristian#trans#transchristian#lgbtq#transgender#nonbinary#qchristian#qchristianfellowship#gaychristiannetwork#gaychristiannet#gcnconf#positivelgbt #lgbtchristian#lgbtchristians Reposted from @qchristianorg https://www.instagram.com/p/CppsOcKrPld/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[a-queer-seminarian]

No matter what they say, no matter what they do, they cannot erase the truth: God calls us good.

From the time of Joseph of the princess dress and power over dreams, God has watched over us and moved through us. Famine comes to the nations that fail to see how our transness is a holy gift. Good fruit flourishes in the communities that welcome our wisdom.

Let us give thanks to the God who upturns the status quo — who loves the world’s despised; who blesses the ones the world calls cursed; who draws the outcast close.

(Edit: a couple people have messaged to ask, so I’ll add here that yes, I do make these kinds of patches to sell — check out NeuroqueerCrafting on Etsy! Also, if you wanna learn more about trans readings of Joseph, click here.)

[trans-bread-of-life]

Tonight I drove by my ex’s old apartment and saw the spot where we first kissed. And it felt a lot like the trips I’ve taken down the memory lane away from Evangelicalism. Breaking up with a version of the body of Christ that loves power more than she’ll ever love me and being broken up with by the girl I thought I’d spend the rest of my life with feel surprisingly similar in my (literal and metaphorical) rear view mirror.

I don’t know whether this means that religion is romantic or whether this means that romance is religious. Maybe it’s both?

Evangelicalism was the kind of lover that catches you up in her whirlwind. In the dance of dating her, she pushes you away and then just as you start to wonder whether she really loves you, she pulls you back in with sweet words. And somehow it leaves you questioning—not whether she wants you, but whether you love her enough.

My relationship with my ex was the kind of religious experience that starts out in ecstasy. Prayers whispered late at night, hands laced together, a purpose to rely on. But the more I confirmed to Christ instead of conforming to her idealized likeliness, the more she grew cold and eventually she shunned me.

The two are the same in that I cannot belong to either because of the man that I am. Evangelicalism still doesn’t believe that I am who I say I am, and it would take me back if I shoved myself back into its neat little box. My ex finally saw who I am, and the moment she did, she left.

I don’t think it’s just the sense of betrayal and the fact that I lost both because I am a man that links the two experiences. They’re two of my only true experiences of belonging. In both I found and lost a family. Both showed me I had value, and somehow by the Grace of God and the skin of my teeth, I’ve been able to carry most of that value forward without them. I pledged my virginity to both (though one actually kept it). Both were places where I experienced profound safety that I don’t know how to find on my own. In the arms of each, I’d managed to quell all my doubts. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to lay down my doubts for anything or anyone the same way again.

I want to open my heart wider again to faith, but I think I need her liturgies to hold me like a mother. I’m not ready to find another love of my life—be she a bride of Christ or a woman. I’m not ready to shout my affection from the rooftops. I’m only ready to fall asleep in someone’s arms.

[createdgay]

God loves your pronouns. Jesus loves your pronouns.

[magical-musings-of-morgan]

tbh I could write for ages about how Side B Theology can so effectively feed into someone’s own internalized bi/panphobia (and as such, bi/pan Side B’s can under-estimate how hard the lifestyle Side B proposes actually is) on top of all the other ways it’s inherently queerphobic but I really don’t think most of the ppl who find this blog will know what the hell I’m talking about (plus, as I don’t really think I “count” as Christian anymore, I don’t think my word will mean much anyway)

[briefblueseason]

I used to be super active here on an old account from high school that I deleted (and mourn). I started getting into Twitter in college, esp Catholic Twitter as I was young and pius. I used it as my gay, pining diary. I miss Twitter and threads does not have the anonymity that I enjoyed. Therefore I am back and anew. Gonna use this as my diary