Happy All Saints Day! It's a big day here because I have profiled more than 40 LGBT saints over the past two years. I reflect on what I learned and launch a new resource page listing all the LGBT saints.

LGBT saints are important because people are searching for alternative ways to lead loving lives.  Churches have tried to control people by burying queer history.  The LGBT saints show us not only THEIR place in history, but also OUR place.  

At first I thought that LGBT saints were rare.  Gradually I came to see that they are everywhere.... More info

(Credit: "Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven" by Fra Angelico)

Today JesusInLove.org launches four major new LGBT spirituality resource pages. Click to visit the new web pages:

LGBT saints - 44 traditional & alternative saints

Holidays - 66 LGBT spiritual dates

Queer Christ - 29 artists and writers working with queer Christ

Artists - 33 artists who do LGBT spiritual & religious art

More info

Visit our LGBT-friendly memorial for All Saints Day and All Souls Day, also known as Day of the Dead. Click here to go to the memorial.

This memorial highlights those who died in the past year. Religion and society have often dishonored LGBT lives. May ALL saints and ALL souls to be restored to wholeness and holiness here.

In a lively interview, author Paul Hartman discusses why he wrote "The Kairos," a new suspense novel in which an archeologist finds proof that Jesus was gay.

 

"Do I believe Jesus was sexually active?  All I can say is He would still be my God if so, but of course I don't know.  With a man or woman?  Same answer. Two of my favorite chapters in The Kairos explore those questions, all of which hinge on whether we believe He was fully human," says Hartman, a Presbyterian elder and retired PBS/NPR executive. More info 

Click for more highlights from the Jesus in Love Blog this month:

Noah's Ark: Queer views of a rainbow story

Matthew Shepard: Modern gay martyr and hate crime victim

Allen Schindler: Gay martyr and military officer

Wear purple for Spirit Day to support LGBT youth

National Coming Out Day

Let us be inspired by the LGBT saints who surround us as a "great cloud of witnesses" and commit ourselves to our own queer paths toward sainthood. Keep reading for Christmas gift ideas and more.

In Memory of  

 

Louis Strom (1925 - 2011) 

 

Lover of Jesus, Beloved of God

 

CAN GAYS AND LESBIANS BE TRUE CHRISTIANS? Welcome to the "Gay and Christian" website! It shows that a person can be both a true Christian and a loving, sexually-active gay man or lesbian.

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