Q Spirit Newsletter
LGBTQ spirituality and the arts
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From Kittredge Cherry / Jesus in Love
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Top 30 LGBTQ Christian books of 2018
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Check out the top 30 LGBTQ Christian books of 2018 -- including theology, Bible, memoir, and church life by diverse authors. Hot trends are transgender faith, first-person memoirs, queer theology and intersectionality. The list was announced today by Q Spirit publisher Kittredge Cherry.
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Give now to support LGBTQ spirituality through the Q Spirit newsletter and blog from Jesus in Love. Thanks!
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Kittredge Cherry share LGBTQ spirituality!
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40 years later, Harvey Milk remembered...
and attacked
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Forty years after his death on Nov. 27, 1978, Harvey Milk is remembered as a pioneer of the LGBTQ movement and “gay saint.” But an ultra-conservative website posted a new article attacking a church group for sharing
Q Spirit's profile of Milk by Kittredge Cherry. The
hate article “Catholic LGBT Ministry Canonizes Serial Pederast” ran on ChurchMilitant.com, run by Michael Voris, one of the Catholic Church’s most vocal opponents of LGBTQ causes. "You must be doing something right," was one of more than 60 supportive comments on
Cherry's Facebook page.
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Pavel Florensky: Russian Orthodox theologian
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Pavel Florensky was a Russian Orthodox priest, scientist and martyr who wrote a groundbreaking theology of same-sex love in the early 20th century. His major theology book is a series of letters originally written to his beloved friend and seminary roommate, Sergei Troitsky. New study of his life and work is causing controversy.
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Queer Nativity shows love makes a family
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Queer Nativity scenes show that love makes a family, including the Holy Family. Despite blasphemy charges, everyone should be able to see themselves in the Christmas story, including the growing number of LGBTQ parents and their children.
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Queer Christmas cards and ornaments
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What if God's child was born to a same-sex couple? Gay and lesbian Nativity scenes are available on Christmas cards and ornaments.
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Mystical same-sex marriage with Jesus
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Blessed Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos is a 18th-century Spanish priest who wrote vividly of his mystical gay marriage to Jesus. Bernardo was 18 when he had a vision of marrying Jesus, with all the symbols of a human wedding.
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Ethiopian saint had same-sex soulmate
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Saint Walatta Petros is a 17th-century Ethiopian nun who had an intense lifelong friendship with another nun and led a successful movement to drive out foreign missionaries. Her biography is oldest depiction of same-sex desire in Africa.
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Mexico's Dance of the 41 Queers
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One of the world's most notorious police raids on a queer gathering occurred in November 1901 when police arrested 41 men at a drag ball in Mexico City. The raid on the "Dance of the 41" caused a big scandal with lasting impact. Now the Dance of the 41 is being reclaimed and reinterpreted by LGBTQ activists and scholars.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (Nov. 20) commemorates those who were killed due to anti-transgender prejudice. Q Spirit present spiritual resources for Transgender Day of Remembrance, including art and books.
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Advent: We seek the Word embodied
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Advent is a time of expectant waiting for Christ's birth. The season of Advent honors the mystery of the Word made flesh -- an important concept in queer spirituality.
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Spiritual art and books for World AIDS Day
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Spiritual resources for World AIDS Day include artwork, icons, books, saints and prayers. A traditional Jesus wears a red ribbon to show AIDS solidarity in one icon. Other works show Christ with AIDS as "Man of Sorrows" and pairs of medieval male saints who faced disease together.
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Patron saint for straight allies
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After her son came out in 1974, Adele Starr helped launch Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. She died on Dec. 10, 2010. She can be considered a "patron saint for straight allies of LGBTQ people."
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Malachy loved Bernard of Clairvaux
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Malachy of Armagh is an 11th-century Irish saint who died in the arms of his more famous soulmate, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Their monastic community honored the male couple as “two stars of such surpassing brightness” and a “twofold treasure.” Bernard showered Malachy with kisses during his lifetime and they are buried together, wearing each other’s clothes.
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I learned a lot by building and reflecting on my list of the
top LGBTQ Christian books of 2018. Memoirs became more popular than Bible studies, transgender topics stayed hot, small publishers dominated in the fall, and perceptive new voices emerged.
May the warmth and goodwill of the holiday season fill your heart and home with joy!
Holiday blessings,
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Kittredge Cherry
Founder, publisher and editor
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In 1978, when a pope started to change doctrine in those cases it imposed unfair burdens upon innocent people, rightwing cardinals and politicians went to work to preserve for all time the prejudicial doctrine of the Church.
The Last Democrat in Rome
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Gender-fluid and gender-nonconforming characters act on their passions in this Bible-based novel, narrated from the point of view of Tamar from the Scriptures. The story is lifesaving for the LGBTQ community and liberating to others. Adelaide Books (New York/Lisbon).
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A debut poetry collection that explores faith and sexuality. Humming with inspired metaphors and everyday relevance, these poems are gems. - Kirkus Reviews (starred)
This is the eye of a poet looking to her work for redemption and grace.
Mosaic of the Dark is a beautiful book. - Jericho Brown
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Toby Johnson’s spiritual autobiography of
learning the real nature of religion and finding
the spiritual qualities of gay consciousness.
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"Trust Truth: A Spiritual and Erotic Pilgrimage with My Gay Spouse," a memoir by Trudie Schuyler Barreras, focuses on her efforts to find a meaningful basis in Christianity to maintain an ongoing relationship with her husband after he acknowledged his homosexuality.
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Vatican made Jacinta & Francisco Marto saints because they advanced their deaths in slow agonizing ways for conversion of sinners. This investigation of press, hospital, forensic, mortuary, exhumation records and Lucia Santos own testimony prove
MURDER
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I am fascinated by Mason’s ability to weave together biblical historical stories with modern concepts of sexuality and gender. — Reader. Gender-fluid characters act on their passions. The story is lifesaving and liberating. Adelaide Books (New York/Lisbon).
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