Last Updated on December 18, 2023 by Kittredge Cherry
and dwelt among us,
full of grace and truth.
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Kittredge Cherry,
Q Spirit and the Jesus in Love Blog
wish you and your loved ones
a most beautiful Christmas!
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This year’s Christmas image is “Queer Holy Family” by California artist Reena Burton. It affirms the holiness of all families, including LGBTQ families, by showing an interracial queer couple with their baby, blessed by God as a woman of color. The artist told Q Spirit:
“I made this piece because I wanted to see more inclusive images around the holidays: A female God with dark skin, and a same-gender mixed-race family held in her loving embrace. I wanted to make an image for people that don’t get to see themselves reflected in sacred art very often. Every family is holy. Every shade of skin is sacred and worthy of being reflected as the Divine.”
Queer Holy Family ornament
The Queer Holy Family image was available at Burton’s Ginger Moon Sacred Arts shop on Etsy as greeting cards, postcards and Christmas ornaments. Both ceramic Queer Holy Family ornaments and pewter snowflake Queer Holy Family ornaments were offered.
In addition to her education in fine art, Burton served as sacred space designer at Pacific School of Religion while studying theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, “My pieces call from my life experiences, world events, and social issues. Most commonly featured themes are relationships, spirituality, intersectional feminism, self-love, green witchcraft, body image, gender norms, sexuality, and social justice,” Burton says on her website, reenaburton.com.
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“Peace on earth and goodwill to all” — and all means all
LGBTQ Christmas cartoons affirm “All means all”!
Gay shepherds ask if they are included when the Christmas angel announces “peace on earth and goodwill to all” in a cartoon by David Hayward, also known as nakedpastor. Indeed, all means all! A star shines rainbow light over the Nativity scene in his “LGBT Christmas: Merry Christmas EVERYBODY.” More info and cartoons
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LGBTQ Christmas links
Queer Nativity scenes show love makes a family
Queer cheer for Christmas: Make the Yuletide gay
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This post is part of the LGBTQ Calendar series by Kittredge Cherry. The series celebrates religious and spiritual holidays, events in LGBT and queer history, holy days, feast days, festivals, anniversaries, liturgical seasons and other occasions of special interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of faith and our allies.
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Queer Holy Family by Reena Burton is available at the Ginger Moon Sacred Arts Etsy shop.
Art by David Hayward is available at the Nakedpastor Etsy shop.
