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Jesus in Love supports lesbian, gay, bi trans and queer (LGBTQ) spirituality, with an emphasis on art and literature. It promotes artistic and religious freedom and teaches love for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. It is based on these beliefs: God loves all people, including sexual minorities. The creative process is sacred. The queer visions, especially the gay Jesus and LGBT saints, will free people to experience the divine in new ways and lead to a more just world.
Jesus in Love was founded by lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry as her personal gift to the world.
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LGBTQ culture and religion have intertwined and influenced each other through a history revealed by saints and scholars in this month's newsletter.
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Author discusses queer martyrdom
 Christianity's impact in shaping LGBT culture is explored in an interview with British professor Dominic Janes. He wrote the new book "Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman." "Queer lives are not just about negotiating sin but have often been places of spiritual and physical heroism," Janes says. The book features about 50 illustrations, including an alluring stained-glass Christ. More info (Credit: Stained-glass Jesus from Frome, Somerset, England. Photo by Dominic Janes) |
Bible's Ethiopian eunuch:
Queers welcome in early church
 A black gay man was the first non-Jewish convert to Christianity, according to progressive views of the Ethiopian eunuch's story in the Bible. The term "eunuch" probably included a variety of sexual minorities that today would be called LGBT or queer. The nameless eunuch was a triple outsider -- a gender-variant foreigner from a racial minority. His experience shows that the early church welcomed outsiders. More info(Credit: Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch, 11th century) |
Two new videos: Gay Jesus, queer Christ
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Christina Rossetti: Lesbian poet and saint
Christina Rossetti was a 19th-century English poet whose work ranged from Christmas carols to sensuous lesbian love poetry. A devout Christian who never married, she has been called a "queer virgin" and "gay mystic." Her best-known works are the carol "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Goblin Market," a poem with a lesbian Christ figure More info
(Credit: 1862 cover for Rossetti's "Goblin Market and Other Poems)
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Madre Juana of Spain: Queer abbess
Last month the Pope put a 16th-century queer abbess on track for sainthood. Madre Juana de la Cruz V�zquez Guti�rrez was an abbess in Spain who insisted that God changed her gender in the womb.
Madre Juana also saw Jesus in queer ways, saying that Christ can be father, mother, husband, wife, or friend. More info
(Credit: Portrait of Madre Juana, c. 1600)
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Queer green theologians protect the earth
Pioneering LGBTQ theologians and churches are expanding the Christian message of inclusion and embodiment to embrace the enivironment. Among them is Robert Shore-Goss, who says, "My passion for the Earth came with the recognition of queer Christian inclusion and the radical inclusive mission of Jesus." More info
(Image: Kittredge Cherry visits a green-cross statue from the early environmental movement) |
Day of Silence Prayer:
Stop bullying God's LGBTQ youth
 A new prayer by Jesus in Love founder Kittredge Cherry is one of the few religious resources for Day of Silence (April 17), a student-led protest of anti-LGBT bullying. Silence is pride, LGBTQ pride Ignoring bullies, Claiming our right to be Part of God's rainbow.... More info |
Kuan Yin: Queer Buddhist Christ figure
 Kuan Yin, the androgynous spirit of compassion in Buddhism, is sometimes thought of as a queer Christ figure or LGBT role model. Jesus in Love highlights Kuan Yin (also known as Avalokitishvara) with art by Tony O'Connell, Ralfka Gonzalez, Stephen Mead and William McNichols, and writing by scholars Patrick Cheng, Toby Johnson, Robert Shore-Goss and Hsiao-Lan Hu. More info
(Credit: Detail from "Avalokitishvara" by Tony O'Connell) |
Sor Juana: Nun who loved a countess
 Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz was a 17th-century Mexican nun whose writings include lesbian love poetry. Her convent cell was Mexico City's intellectual hub and the largest library in Mexico. Sor Juana was visited by the city's elite, including the countess who became her passionate friend. More info
(Credit: "Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz" by by Miguel Cabrera, 1750)
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100 years of lesbians making peace and making history
In my interview today with scholar Dominic Janes, he said, "If you look for Jesus as a queer martyr you will quickly find him in images that are not afraid to call attention to his suffering and to his humanity as including a sexual dimension that is open to appreciation by everyone." May you find and appreciate the Christ that you seek.
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Kittredge Cherry
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