Queering the Bible

This year my wife and I celebrated seven years of committed partnership. As our relationship has developed and deepened, the insecurities and issues that plagued us in our early days have transformed into a rooted trust and knowing. After years of witnessing each other's commitment and investing tens of thousands

The Wizard of Oz is a queer cultural iconic film, so much so that the phrase ‘friends of Dorothy’ has been popularised to signify members of the LGBTQ+ community. The film is extravagant, bold, colourful and narrates the transformation of characters through their relationships. To me, there’s something very camp

I grew up in the United Methodist Church and sensed a call to ordained ministry from an early age. I loved mission trips, youth group, and dreamed of going to seminary. Yet I knew I was banned from ordained ministry because the UMC forbade “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals” from ordination. I

Acts 11 starts with Peter being criticised. The circumcised want to know why he ate with people who were uncircumcised. Peter protests, explaining that he had a divine vision of a giant sheet containing each of the animals that he would traditionally be forbidden from eating. In the vision, the

Acts 10 has always been an intriguing piece of scripture for me. As a Malaysian teenager, I remember leafing through a colourful comic book bible which depicted this huge sheet with all kinds of haram or forbidden animals and reptiles and birds being lowered down to Peter, who was then

Every June, Pride festivals happen across the globe to celebrate the incredible resilience and power that comes from queer identity and queer community. During Pride, we remember the people who fought for visibility and acceptance in the early gay rights movements of the 50s, 60s, and 70s as we continue

As queer people, how do we live and thrive in a time of religious, political and societal backlash? To challenge the social structures that oppress queer flourishing, we need to both continue to witness to the truth of our lives and partner with allies on the inside who can push

My queerness thrives when holding seemingly binary or unlike realities in tension. I am simultaneously the stoic and hardworking descendant of German pastor-farmers and the lioness Creole granddaughter of opportunity-embracing formerly enslaved ancestor-guardians.  I am circle skirt swirling lesbian femme and adrenally intersex they/them protector. "Do I contradict myself? Very

Pentecost sounds like a pride parade. Both events are characterized by vibrant expressions, a sense of community, and transformative power that lasts far beyond the gathering but can have an impact on the participants for much longer, perhaps the entire year or maybe even millena to come. And yet the

The Acts of the Apostles (Acts), commonly understood as the second volume of the Gospel of Luke, can be thought of as a queer text in as much as it is neither a gospel nor an epistle. It joins the Apocalypse of John as a different kind of witness in the New Testament