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Queering the Bible

Mark 1

It can’t have been comfortable to be John the Baptist. Camel’s hair clothes and locusts aside, it’s never pleasant to be the

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Haggai

One of my strongest memories of my paternal grandmother is sitting with her at the piano, listening to her play and sing her favorite songs. She had a soft spot for love songs, and she taught me how to plink

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Habakkuk

9 mins read

The increase in intensity and amplification of the spiritual volume I felt around this thought stayed with me as I prayerfully read the book’s text. Sitting with Habakkuk’s three chapters helped me see that there is absolutely an interplay between possessing a prophetic and queer identity because these two orientations

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Haggai

13 mins read

One of my strongest memories of my paternal grandmother is sitting with her at the piano, listening to her play and sing her favorite songs. She had a soft spot for love songs, and she taught me how to plink along to “Heart and Soul” almost before I could read.

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Zechariah

13 mins read

I am Black. I am a woman. I am queer AND I am Christian. While I grew up in a Black Presbyterian church that felt affirming to all of my identities, I now know that Christianity is often the guise for much of the institutional and interpersonal violence that marginalized

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Nahum

12 mins read

Nahum may very well be the queerest book in the Bible, because hardly anybody knows what to do with it. Frankly, I had no idea what was in the Book of Nahum until I took my first Hebrew Bible course in college. I vaguely remembered from Confirmation class that Nahum

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Micah

14 mins read

A few weeks ago I took several sheets of brightly coloured paper and wrote out Micah 6:8, putting one word on each of the sheets of paper. I then hid the pages around the sanctuary of the congregation I serve. When the time came during the service for the children

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Zephaniah

13 mins read

Who is Zephaniah? Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, a descendant from the tribe of Judah. The ninth of the minor prophets. In the Old Testament and particularly the Prophets, they are often descendants from generations of Prophets. Zephaniah, had the command of prophetic language and his serious warnings were

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Jonah

12 mins read

The narrative logic of the book of Jonah resembles that of a dream, or a surrealist novel. God tells Jonah to get up and go to the city of Nineveh and ‘proclaim against it’.  Instead, Jonah flees in the opposite direction and gets on a boat to Tarshish. A storm

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Obadiah

13 mins read

Obadiah addresses a time of crisis and chaos for the people of Judah. The Babylonians invaded Judah, destroying Jerusalem, its temple, and its political hierarchy. The Judean people were captured and held by force in a land that was not their own.  A third group of people, those of a

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Amos

15 mins read

Amos is one of the more obscure books of the Bible: Amos does not tell the story of the creation of the universe like Genesis nor offer the exquisite poetry of the Psalms; and yet, there is much in Amos to ponder, especially for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual,

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Joel

13 mins read

Emphasizing his lament with poetic reprisal, Joel echoes the at times inarticulate cries of Jeremiah’s lamentations. The devastation is widespread. Where one travesty ended, another began, and so on and so forth. The land, the nation, is ravaged. In quick succession, Joel begins to lay out the horrors. Crying out,

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