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A Hunger for Justice

This sermon was preached 10 March 2024 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square. We come here today with a prayer list full of people facing difficult struggles – painful losses, unknown futures, possibilities that we cannot fathom. Week after week, we gather around that prayer list and see the ways that we as […]

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Fun is Necessary

Recently, I have been thinking about my place in the world as a transgender, disabled, fat person. Each of these things is true about me all of the time, and yet, at different points I feel each of them more acutely. I have been thinking a lot about taking a break from the oppressive nature […]

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Rest is Revolutionary

Today as I’m writing this, I have chosen to spend the day away from all my responsibilities and tasks, and instead focus solely on what brings me joy and rejuvenates my soul. I call this practice Sabbath, after the tradition enumerated in the Hebrew Bible that for six days one should work, but on the […]

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Trans Liberation is Death into Life

A sermon for the KA/NSA Collaborative Church in Chicago. It was preached 3/26/23. You get it a for a week before I publish it on my blog. Today, in our scripture readings, we have heard the theme of death and resurrection – and at no better time. In two short weeks Christians around the world […]

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Crafting a Theology of Transgender Time

Defining theology as talking about God often can obfuscate the many philosophical components that go into theology. Temporality is one of these items that shifts and changes based on the philosophical system a theology is constructed from. For people like myself, change and time are the fundamental unit of existence – everything changes except for […]