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Advent: Waiting for the queer face of God

Advent: Waiting for the queer face of God

by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, Nov 16-30

Advent celebrates the mystery of the Word made flesh — an important concept in queer spirituality. A favorite Advent theme for lesbian artists is Mary and her female lovers, sometimes with references to the virgin birth and its and its similarity to artificial...
Richard Sibbes: Queer Puritan theologian for the LGBTQ community?

Richard Sibbes: Queer Puritan theologian for the LGBTQ community?

by Kittredge Cherry | | Nov 16-30, Saints

Richard Sibbes was a 17th-century English Puritan who never married, nurtured close male friendships, wore extravagantly lacy clothing and preached a rather queer theology. Puritans have a (somewhat undeserved) reputation for being distinctly puritanical, but Sibbes...
Walatta Petros: African nun and saint with a female partner in 17th-century

Walatta Petros: African nun and saint with a female partner in 17th-century

by Kittredge Cherry | | Nov 16-30, Saints

Walatta Petros is a 17th-century Ethiopian nun and saint who had an intense lifelong friendship with another nun and led a successful movement to drive out foreign missionaries. Her feast day is Nov. 23. Her biography, written by her disciples just 30 years after her...
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