Continue reading “OC2: Mr Z Shane Zaldivar”I am a person of Mayan descent. … The constraints that most Christians want me to submit to seem like just another example of the ways that they have colonized me and my people.
Z Shane Zaldivar in
“Light Shining in the Darkness”
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Continue reading “OC2: Mx Bobbi Taylor”Redefining how I think of God is, itself, a spiritual discipline and a process of discovery. In so doing, I have begun to see that the God I work with is differently-gendered.
Bobbi Taylor in
“Reclaming: A Body in Prayer” and “A Prayer to Begin My Day”
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Continue reading “OC2: Rev Louis Mitchell”
I claim this Holy Hybrid space, in the creases and folds between, as holy space… To be a Holy Hybrid is to claim my own both/and without shame or reservation.The Rev. Louis Mitchell in
“Holy Hybrids”
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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”
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Continue reading “OC2: Ms Dee Dee Watters”
I used to seek affirmation from human eyes. … Now, I have a clear understanding that God affirmed me from day one. Before I was even developed in the womb, God set me apart for a purpose!Dee Dee Watters in
“Affirmation”
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Continue reading “OC2: Rev Erin Swenson”Many times, I felt like I had to defend myself from the existential rage of my accusers, more than from any real theological argument.
The Rev Erin Swenson
“Body and Soul United”
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Continue reading “OC2: Mx delfin bautista”God’s revelation is bigger than the neat little box we try to put it into; it is not limited to one person or a select few.
delfin bautista in
“An Encounter at Guadalupe”
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Thank God that someone also came to ask me, “Do you want to be healed?”
Like the man in the story, I said, “Yes! But I have no one!”
Continue reading “OC2: Minister Yadi Martinez”Yadi Martinez-Reyna in
“Courage to Heal”
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Continue reading “OC2: Mr Enzi Tanner”To me, life is all about the search for my most authentic self, but it took me a while before I came to understand that things like gender or religion could change.
Enzi Tanner in
“Finding Myself in Community”
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I began formally using the term “OtherWise-gendered” in OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation (now available in hard cover!). However, framing an anthology around the term “OtherWise” is a different play. Rather than take up space up front unpacking the term, I created an Appendix that talked about it. It is excerpted here:
By Mx Chris Paige
Excerpt from OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance, edited by Mx Chris Paige
Continue reading “OC2: What is “OtherWise-gendered”?”
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