According to a report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute, nearly half of LGBT adults in the United States are religious. While religious affiliation spans age and race, the report found that the most common religion among...
The Statement from the Collective of Queer Christian Leaders released on Ash Wednesday stated: We are leaders of faith-based organizations in the intersectional work of LGBTQIA2S+ justice…we are under attack. But you are not alone, and you are not...
According to Religion New Service, having helped to engineer the demise of Roe v. Wade after half a century of anti-abortion activism, attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters conference openly discussed plans to make shorter work of Obergefell v....
Blessed Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos y de Seña was an 18th-century Spanish priest who wrote about his mystical marriage to Jesus. This queer saint was beatified in 2010 and his feast day is November 29. Bernardo was 18 when...
St. Mary of Egypt died in the 5th century and was, according to legend, a sexually insatiable libertine who went on an “anti-pilgrimage” to Jerusalem for the sole purpose of having dalliances with pilgrims. She tried to enter a...
In a 1998 essay, Peter Sweasey discussed sexual identity as part of the path toward spiritual discovery. Do his insights hold up some 27 years later? In 1998 it was true that religion by and large seemed hostile to...
