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Feb 28, 2021 Essays

Lessons I Hope We’ve Learned Over the Decades, 2021 Edition

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Feb 27, 2021 Essays

Reclaiming Our Baptism, Remembering Who We Are

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Feb 20, 2021 Essays

Black Prism: We Are the Black History of the Future

Bible Study

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    Who Are Those “Eunuchs Who Have Been So from Birth” in the Gospel of Matthew?

    May 16, 2020
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    What Would a Loving Same-Sex Relationship Between Two Women Look Like in the Bible?

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    What Does the Biblical Legend of Jonathan and David’s Same-Sex Relationship Say About Homophobia?

Homospirituality

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    Yes, You Can Be Gay and Evangelical

    Nov 08, 2020
  • Books

    Queer for Jesus! Christian Tradition is a Goldmine of Sexual Strange-ness

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    In My Blood: Born This Way and Worthy of Love

Transpirituality

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    Check Your Expectations, Because God Works Through Everyone

    Nov 15, 2020
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    Not Fearing Our Neighbors

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    God’s Community Comes to One Like Me: A Transgender Meditation on the Beatitudes

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Lessons I Hope We’ve Learned Over the Decades, 2021 Edition

Let’s review what we’ve learned as we face 2021.  The moveable middle is shrinking. This is both good and bad news. It means that more people are sympathetic with causes for equality, while it also means that others are stuck in the extremist right-wing and

Feb 28, 2021 by Dr. Robert N. Minor in Essays
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Reclaiming Our Baptism, Remembering Who We Are

One of the features of being in foster care for many, especially in the ’70s and ’80s, was there was no contact with the birth family to be had. Depending on family circumstances, that can be a good or bad thing. But the result is

Feb 27, 2021 by Rev. Dwight Welch in Essays
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Black Prism: We Are the Black History of the Future

Take all the colors of the rainbow, mix them together and what do you get? You get a very dark shade of brown you might as well call Black. This is metaphorical as well as literal when it comes to explaining the place of Black

Feb 20, 2021 by Branden Mattox in Essays
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It’s Just Hard to Admit That We Don’t Have Answers — Even When We Don’t

There’s something human beings possess that’s proven awfully important for progress in science and technology, and even for advancing human cultures. It’s the need to understand, to discover answers to the questions we ask, and to continue to ferret them out in the belief that

Feb 13, 2021 by Dr. Robert N. Minor in Essays
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Good Queer Trouble: 3 Black Leaders in the Movement for Inclusion in the Church

When Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder participated in President Joe Biden’s inaugural prayer service on January 21, 2021, it wasn’t her first Presidential engagement, but it still made history: Being one of five openly LGBTQ clergy there made it the queerest inaugural prayer service ever. Flunder,

Feb 06, 2021 by Lance Helms in Articles
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Could Creativity and Imagination Be Too Scary, Subversive, and Even Too Queer?

Renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein in a 1929 magazine interview put it this way: “I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” If such a brilliant thinker, whose name has

Jan 28, 2021 by Dr. Robert N. Minor in Essays
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Letters to Home: Claiming a Marriage Passage for Myself

Dear Bro, I try to read all the articles posted here on Whosoever — including Dr. Robert N. Minor’s May 16th article titled “Who Are Those ‘Eunuchs Who Have Been So from Birth’ in the Gospel of Matthew?” I know this article is talking about

Jan 24, 2021 by Alyce Keener in Essays
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream,” But It’s Bigger Than You Think

On January 15th we might have remembered what would have been the 91st birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., but his celebrations this year are on the 18th. It is one of those more convenient Monday holidays that make for three-day weekends. There is so

Jan 13, 2021 by Dr. Robert N. Minor in Essays
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Letters to Home: Insurrection, Snake Oil and the Bible

Dear Bro, Wednesday is a day I will remember for a long time. A group of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. I heard words that I never thought I would hear — insurrection, treason and more. I don’t know how many people were protesting,

Jan 11, 2021 by Alyce Keener in Essays
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Kwanzaa As a Journey of Black Gay Spirituality and Belonging

As a Black gay man, the annual celebration of Kwanzaa takes me on a journey of both spirituality and belonging. It’s a journey that allows me to own my life rather than renting it. A multi-day celebration from December 26th to January 1st, Kwanzaa is

Dec 26, 2020 by Branden Mattox in Essays
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