Friday, June 6, 2025

SojoMail - Is God calling you to queerness?

This week: Queering Christianity, an interview with folk singer-songwriter Crys Matthews, and examining our “deeply disordered quest for control.”

Queerness Is a Calling Every Person Should Aspire To

In this week’s SojoMail, Brandan Robertson writes that to follow Jesus is to refuse conformity:

I’ve always been queer, but it took me a while to realize it. Even after coming out as gay, I still struggled with the language of “queer” because I grew up hearing it used as a slur. In many places, it still is. I remember the shocked look on the faces of a lecture audience in rural England when I said “queer” — as if I had uttered a curse word.

This is how the word sits with many people — even within the LGBTQIA+ community. But over the years, as I’ve wrestled with my identity, learned the history of LGBTQIA+ liberation, and developed my beliefs, I’ve come to resonate deeply with being queer, just as much as with being Christian.

In fact, for me, to be an authentic Christian — one who seeks to follow the life and teachings of Jesus — is to be queer.

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