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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"The Bible says gay sex is OK but doesn't allow for non-monogamy" is a WILD and extremely unserious position to take.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

James Dobson’s god was an idol made in his own image to gather him money and power.

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Brian G. Murphy @thisisbgm.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I would choose to be gay. Over and over and over again.

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Brian G. Murphy @thisisbgm.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Two things can be true: - I want to believe no one is irredeemable - James Dobson made the world a worse place and we are better off without him May those of us still here work to undo all the harm he wrought upon us.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Anyone who claims the Bible as one of their sacred texts should be abhorred by the US government's treatment of immigrants and doing everything we can to stop it.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Pretty sure that "‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born," means don't them in prison/concentration camps.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

July 1995. Bibi, then leader of the opposition, rallies a mock funeral procession as anti-peace, anti-Oslo Peace Process scream, "death to Rabin!" The life-size black coffin with PM Rabin’s name painted in white is visible, the noose is harder to see from here. Rabin was murdered in November.

Bibi and a casket that has Rabin’s name on it. He’s such a piece of shit.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Let history remember that this loathsome monster was inciting Rabin’s murder back in the day for trying to make peace. Nobody can say they didn’t know, didn’t see, couldn’t have imagined. This was as inevitable as all the steps that preceded it when he’s left unchecked. No conscience.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Poly Possibilities starts tonight! What if Love was bigger? What if sex & relationships taught us something special about the divine? What if faith could be comfort & inspiration as you love outside the lines? We'd love to have you! Register here: www.queertheology.com/poly-possibi...

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Karen Elspeth @terranen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Same!

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Brian here. Just read an email @shannontlkearns sent where he wrote "I am not afraid of God. I don’t mean that in a flippant way, nor in a “God can’t touch me” kind of way. I mean it in the deepest place of knowing that God is loving " and it pierced me right down to my bones.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I saw God more in the words of Andrea Gibson than I ever did of John MacArthur

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Mychel (me-SHELL) Vandover 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 💛🤍💜🖤 @mychelvandover.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Tonight, we had a Pride Prayer Service at CTS and I preached a sermon inspired by an episode of @queertheology.bsky.social where Father Shay preached about the Doubting Thomas story. That sermon will be my Substack article on Monday. I'm hoping to have the recorded version and my written version,

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“The Lord God’s spirit is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release for captives, and liberation for prisoners,”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 877-447-4487 Via @lascanner.bsky.social

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Someone shared that they saw a queer Christian friend & remembered they met through the Queerness Every Day Challenge last year 🥰 I love that the challenge plants seeds & connections that continue to grow for years. If you want to join us, it's day 1: queertheology.com/challenge/

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈 queerness is holy ✨ together we will build a better world 🙌

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

ANYWAY if you want to infuse your queerness with more spirituality and your faith with more queerness, we're doing the 5-day Queerness Every Day Challenge again next week. Daily adventures you can do in 5 minutes or less. Sign up here for just $7: www.queertheology.com/challenge/

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Feel more Connected to queerness & spirituality than ever before. We start June 1st! Join us for our 3rd annual […]

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

And in the times when I DON'T want to wear one or the other, I pay attention to why (TBH it's usually fear or shame, and that's important information)

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I don't wear a jockstrap or tzitzit EVERY day (though I often wish I did), but when I do, now that I've made it an intentional choice and a sacred practice, it feels really special. I feel connected to my community. I remember to honor my sexuality.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

So I decided to try it. and since I'm Jewish, I decided to pair it with a tzitzit from The Tzitzit Project, a feminist, all-gender-inclusive to redefine and expand tzitzit for *all* Jews.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The idea really resonated with folks. One person said he already wore one daily but hadn't considered it holy before. Another decided to try. One woman (who is trans) shared about how wearing "women's" underwear was the first transition step that felt safe, since it was just for her.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I made an off-the-cuff suggestion that a jockstrap could even be considered something queer+sacred, if it affirms your sexuality and sensuality, if it connects you to your community who also wear the same thing, if it reminds you that you are good. It kinda reminded me of tzitzit.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

During that year's Queerness Every Day Challenge, one of the adventures was to get something you could see or wear daily to affirm the connections between your queerness and your spirituality. Pride flags, ace pins, an anime toy in bi colors, a rainbow rosary were all things people tried.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Special clothes & objects are part of many religious traditions. Catholics carry rosaries, monks wear robes, nuns wear habits, Mormons wear temple garments, Jews wear tzitzit, and gays... well lots of gay guys wear jockstraps. 2 years ago I decided to start wearing one daily as a spiritual practice

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Prison abolition is an LGBTQ Christian issue. Abortion access is an LGBTQ Christian issue. Reproductive justice is an LGBTQ Christian issue Environmental care is an LGBTQ Christian issue. Economic justice is an LGBTQ Christian issue. Halting white supremacy is an LGBTQ Christian issue.

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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

That time your hot friend took of their shirt to help you sell your book "Notes From a Queer Cripple". Get yours wherever you get books. Virtual book launch May 22, 2025 from 6-8 p.m. Tix at AndrewGurza.com Thanks @jonshieldxxx.bsky.social

Andrew & Jon. Jon is a white, shirtless bearded man smiling. Andrew is a wheelchair using white man holding his book.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Prison abolition is an LGBTQ Jewish issue. Abortion access is an LGBTQ Jewish issue. Reproductive justice is an LGBTQ Jewish issue Environmental care is an LGBTQ Jewish issue. Economic justice is an LGBTQ Jewish issue. Halting white supremacy is an LGBTQ Jewish issue.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Queerness casts off binaries and makes space for all of the messy reality. In the wake of Pope Francis's passing, whatever you are feeling, we see you in it and honor those feelings.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

One of the strange and beautiful parts about being an LGBTQ+ person of faith is the often complicated relationships we have with the faith communities that formed us. Even when there was harm done, there was often also much beauty there too.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Easter is a reminder that empire no longer has a hold on us. That even death cannot defeat the work of God’s loving justice in the world. What could change if believed we could not lose and acted accordingly? Easter is scandalous: let us all be free.

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

One of the earliest and most widely accepted understanding of Jesus’s saving work is that he descended into hell, defeated death once and for all, and broke up the gates. It’s a prison break and we are all free to live into resurrection. Now, it’s time to live “as if”…

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A reminder to transgender people: you are holy and you reflect the divine. ✨🙏

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just bought Shannon TL Kearns' book "No One Taught Me How to Be a Man" and I am EXTREMELY excited. :) (Fr Shannon is one half of @queertheology.bsky.social and he is So Awesome. *bounces in happy Christian trans man* :) ) www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Read "No One Taught Me How to Be a Man What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals about Masculinity" by Shannon T. L. Kearns available from Rakuten Kobo. An exploration of manhood and what it takes to be a...

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

does it look like it was designed in Microsoft Publisher in 2003 by a granola-eating married couple who just REALLY loves their "soulful and artistic" 7-year-old nephew? If so, you're probably in the an affirming mainline church 😭

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Eeee yay!! That's the video I was watching, and I need to look at more of your free resources! <3 (And listen to more of the podcast, as ever. Also I'm going to need Fr Shannon's new book v soon...)

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

yesss! so glad it was helpful! and OMG ME TOO! I think a bookstore near me has it in stock so I'm going there tomorrow to hopefully get my hands on it! (-Brian)

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I wish anti-LGBTQ Christians weren't so good at graphic design! They lure you in! We put together a (free) video walkthrough on how you can tell if a church / org / resource is trustworthy or secretly has toxic and unaffirming theology. In our hub: my.queertheology.com/c/queer-spir...

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Brian & Shannon | QueerTheology.com @queertheology.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

GOD I WISH IT WEREN'T SO OFTEN TRUE! Forefront Brooklyn is a shining example of a church website that looks so good it feels like it should be conservative but is actually progressive!

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Reconciling Ministries Network @rmnetwork.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This afternoon + on April 8th, enfleshed, Soulforce, and @queertheology.bsky.social are teaming up to put on an educational webinar re. trans lives and trans rights at stake. Learn how your church can extend welcome and safety. Register here: www.transformingheartscollective.org/people-of-fa...

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People of Faith: Defend Trans Lives — Transforming Hearts Collective

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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Extremely grateful today for the Yoke Yoga app[1], the @queertheology.bsky.social podcast, and the Youtube streams by St Mary's cathedral Glasgow. Yesterday was good. :D [1] Having a yoga resource that isn't dominated by white, thin, able-bodied, non-trauma-informed teachers... yesss. <3

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