Papers Session: Engaging the Sacred, Creating, and Healing
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
Drawing on the story of the woman caught in adultery, this poem reflects on how the church is often quicker to cast stones than to show love, especially when it comes to sexuality. Calling out the harmful conflation of Queerness with sin, it instead lifts up Queer bodies and Queer love as something beautiful and sacred. Through these lines, I imagine how Christ would respond to the Queer community with the kindness and assurance of love that he showed those outside the boundaries drawn by religious leaders. By reimagining these verses, I hope to offer a space where Queer people can see themselves not as outliers to the Church, but as central participants in the ongoing, beautiful unfolding of God’s creative work.
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