Download or read book Queerly Lutheran written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique combination of sermons, essays and storytelling, Queerly Lutheran provocatively examines the roots of Lutheran tradition and delivers Good News to Lutherans of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Using the sex life of Martin Luther as a model, Queerly Lutheran invites readers and the contemporary church to reexamine our past and work towards a more welcoming future. This text includes an Extraordinary Prayer Calendar for congregations and individuals who would like to include queer saints (past and present) to their prayer life.
Download or read book With a Day Like Yours Couldn t You Use a Little Grace May August written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for everyone who has been lied to and told that God couldn't love them. In addition to reminding you that nothing, nothing, nothing can ever separate you from God's love, Pastor Megan Rohrer will also help you learn to accept this gift of grace and love yourself just as you are. Whether you skim, only pull it out when you have a rough day or a bad breakup, or make readings part of your daily routine for a year, With a Day Like Yours, Couldn't You Use Some Grace speaks to saints, sinners and everyone in between.
Download or read book Queering Wesley Queering the Church written by Keegan Osinski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after Stonewall, the experiences of LGBTQ+ Christians are—rightfully—beginning to be received with interest by their churches. Queering Wesley, Queering the Church presents a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan holiness as an expansive openness to the love and grace of God in queer Christian lives rather than the limiting and restrictive legalism that is sometimes found in Wesleyan theology and praxis. This inventive project consists of queer readings of ten John Wesley sermons. Reading these sermons from a queer perspective offers the church a fresh paradigm for theological innovation, while remaining in line with the tradition and legacy of Wesley that is so central and generative to Wesleyan churches. Arguing that a coherent line of thought can be drawn from Wesley’s conception of holiness to the queer, holy lives of LGBTQ+ Christians, Queering Wesley, Queering the Church playfully utilizes queer theory in a way that is fully compatible with Wesleyan teaching. This book aims to be a first step in seriously considering the theological voices of LGBTQ+ Christians in the Wesleyan tradition as a valuable asset to a vital church.
Download or read book The Lutheran Witness written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unnatural written by Rachel Murr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a freshman in college, Rachel Murr found herself trying to decide which campus social group to join: the gay and lesbian advocacy group or the campus Christian fellowship. She knew it couldn't be both. For the next fifteen years she held onto the belief that she couldn't be both gay and Christian. When the pain involved in trying not to be lesbian called for a change in theology, she came out to her evangelical church. Conflict ensued. Unnatural is a collection of stories--not only of the harm religiously-inspired negative messages about homosexuality inflict, but also of redemption. Rachel uses her own story as well as personal interviews with ten other queer women and one female-to-male transgender man to tell how they were judged, lectured, kicked out of homes and families, subjected to reparative therapies, and even assaulted. Some faced homelessness, depression, suicide attempts, and pervasive shame. Still, they fought to keep their faith alive. Each demonstrated an Unnatural ability to forgive, love, believe, advocate, and heal.
Download or read book Bible Stories written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A progressive, fictional reimagining of Bible Stories. These texts edited by Megan Rohrer and Daniel Tisdel will provoke, inspire and expand the diversity of the characters in our faith stories.
Download or read book Queer Virtue written by The Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity. As an openly lesbian Episcopal priest and professional advocate for LGBTQ justice, the Reverend Elizabeth Edman has spent her career grappling with the core tenets of her faith. After deep reflection on her tradition, Edman is struck by the realization that her queer identity has taught her more about how to be a good Christian than the church. In Queer Virtue, Edman posits that Christianity, at its scriptural core, incessantly challenges its adherents to rupture false binaries, to “queer” lines that pit people against one another. Thus, Edman asserts that Christianity, far from being hostile to queer people, is itself inherently queer. Arguing from the heart of scripture, she reveals how queering Christianity—that is, disrupting simplistic ways of thinking about self and other—can illuminate contemporary Christian faith. Pushing well past the notion that “Christian love = tolerance,” Edman offers a bold alternative: the recognition that queer people can help Christians better understand their fundamental calling and the creation of sacred space where LGBTQ Christians are seen as gifts to the church. By bringing queer ethics and Christian theology into conversation, Edman also shows how the realities of queer life demand a lived response of high moral caliber—one that resonates with the ethical path laid down by Christianity. Lively and impassioned, Edman proposes that queer experience be celebrated as inherently valuable, ethically virtuous, and illuminating the sacred. A rich and nuanced exploration, Queer Virtue mines the depths of Christianity’s history, mission, and core theological premises to call all Christians to a more authentic and robust understanding of their faith.
Download or read book Sacred Waters How to Accept Blessings When They Find You written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Waters is a collection of inspirational stories written by Pastor Megan Rohrer. Featuring trips to sacred waters all over the world, this book encourages readers to accept the overwhelmingly abundant blessings around them and share them with others. The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer is the pastor of Grace Lutheran in San Francisco and was recently featured both in Cosmopolitan and in the 500th Anniversary Exhibit at Martin Luther's house in Wittenberg, Germany.
Download or read book Prayers from the Caribbean Injury Struggle and Liberation written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayers from the Caribbean is a collection of prayers written by Pastor Megan Rohrer. Inspired by a cruise through Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Barbados, St. Marten, and St. Lucia, this book provides diverse prayers for diverse people: body, mind and politic. These prayers focus on the turmoil and chaos of contemporary life and seek to bring hope to worn out, disconnected and hopeless people. With an eye towards justice, this prayer book seeks to inspire Isaiah styled prayers that explore both the struggle and the joys of life. The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer is the pastor of Grace Lutheran and a chaplain for the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco. Pastor Rohrer has been featured both in Cosmopolitan and in the 500th Anniversary Exhibit at Martin Luther's house in Wittenberg, Germany.
Download or read book With a Day Like Yours Couldn t You Use a Little Grace May August LARGE PRINT written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for everyone who has been lied to and told that God couldn't love them. In addition to reminding you that nothing, nothing, nothing can ever separate you God's love, Pastor Megan Rohrer will also help you learn to accept this gift of grace and love yourself just as you are. Whether you skim, only pull it out when you have a rough day or a bad breakup, or make readings part of your daily routine for a year, With a Day Like Yours, Couldn't You Use Some Grace speaks to saints, sinners and everyone in between.
Download or read book The Voice of Public Theology written by Ted Peters and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public theologians are already thundering like prophets at climate change and racial injustice. But the gale force winds of natural science blow through society as well. The public theologian should be on storm watch.
Download or read book Letters For My Brothers 4th Ed written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's fast paced world, the internet can provide quick answers to personal questions. But when an individual raised by society to live, breathe and look at the world with female eyes transitions to male, some of the most enlightening, helpful and profound advice can only come in retrospect. Letter to my Brothers, features essays from respected transmen mentors who share the wisdom they wish they would have known at the beginning of their journey into manhood.
Download or read book From Sin to Amazing Grace written by Patrick S. Cheng and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of Christianity, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT” or“queer”) people have been condemned as unrepentant sinners who are in dire need of God’s saving grace. As a result of this condemnation, LGBT people have been subjected to great spiritual, emotional and physical abuse and violence. This issue takes on a particular urgency in light of the ongoing harassment and bullying of LGBT young people by their classmates. Cheng argues that people need to be liberated from the traditional legal model of thinking about sin and grace as a violation of divine and natural laws in which grace is understood as the strength to refrain from violating such laws. Rather Cheng proposes a Christological model based upon the theologies of Irenaeus, Bonaventure and Barth, in which sin and grace are defined in terms of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. This book serves as a useful resource for all people who struggle to make sense of the traditional Christian doctrines of sin and grace in the context of the 21st century.
Download or read book Manifest Transitional Wisdom on Male Privilege written by Megan Rohrer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of writings about male privilege from a trans male perspective. Evocative, provocative and informative, this book provides a new lens to explore feminism, gender and transgender advocacy.
Download or read book The Queer written by Rev Jeff Hood and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When God embodies those we marginalize, strange things happen. Peach, hope, and love manifest in unimaginable ways. This is the tale of the Queer. A theologian, historian, and bioethicist by academic training, Jeff is a graduate of Auburn University, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Emory University's Candler School of Theology, the University of Alabama, Creighton University, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry in Practical Theology at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. His ordination rests within the Southern Baptist Convention. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Jeff currently lives in Denton, Texas, where he is the Pastor of The Church at Mable Peabody's. He and his wife Emily have twin infant sons, Jeff and Phillip. A Southerner, Queer, and Christian, Jeff is a committed activist and radical prophetic voice to a closed society. www.revjeffhood.com."
Download or read book Outing the Church written by Nancy L. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queerly Classed written by Susan Raffo and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thoughtful, courageous, and honest essays explores the intersections of class background, social status, and "queerness," challenging the often narrow and rigid definition of gay and lesbian community. Queerly Classed highlights the voices of those whose experiences of class-combined with race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and age to explode stereotypes of queers aspiring to assimilate into the mainstream of the American middle class.
