Continue reading “OC2: Rev Carla Robinson”
My mama told me “You were my child. God gave me to you and I have no intention of letting you go.”Then she lived it.
Rev. Carla Robinson in
“Living at the Intersection”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Continue reading “OC2: Rev Dr Cameron Partridge”
I had begun to feel that, whatever process of stretching toward God may have been afoot in my life, it was entangled with my gender and how I embodied it.The Rev Dr Cameron Partridge in
“Holy Week”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Continue reading “OC2: Mx Mycroft Masada”
For me, being interfaith and intergender has always been intertwined. I am a child of an interfaith family who is an interfaith person in an interfaith marriage.Mycroft Masada in
“In the Beginning”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Foreword by the Rev Victoria Kolakowski (retired)
Preface by Mx Chris Paige
Introduction by Mx Chris Paige
Bishop John Spong is a well-known representative voice for Christian liberalism. In The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love, he provides an encyclopedic review of problematic ways the Christian Bible has been used as a weapon on a variety of “issues.”
I included The Sins of Scripture in Appendix B of OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation. If you are someone who is unsure why people have hard feelings about the Bible, then this is a pretty good primer.
Here’s the next timeline for Transgender Religious History! Please help me collect the details that are missing! Be in touch!
I call the period from 1996-2006 the “transgender spring,” that is, the first decade of transgender Christian publishing. While not intended to be a detailed history, I do want to highlight a bit about what it meant to be writing about transgender concerns in that period. Every sighting of a transgender Christian was precious through those years. Continue reading “The Transgender Spring, 1996-2006”
“Voices of Witness: Out of the Box” is a documentary giving voice to the witness of transgender people of faith with a particularly Episcopalian flavor. Available in its full 30 min length on YouTube for free, with study guide materials also available for free download. Continue reading “Voices of Witness: Out of the Box, 2012”
Crossing Paths: Where Transgender and Religion Meet was published in 2003 as a 114 page PDF by the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Concerns.
While this UUA resource is not exclusively Christian, Crossing Paths was one of the first readily available PDF format anthology in the “transgender spring.” The PDF was originally available on the UUA’s website. However, the copy we link to is a copy retained on the Transfaith website.
Continue reading “Crossing Paths: Where Transgender and Religion Meet, 2003”
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