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Ministry on the gender margins

June 16, 2018 By Laura Thor

Trans Awareness session for priests - Ministry on the gender margins

“Ministry on the Gender Margins” was originally published by Jeannine Gramick on Jun. 14, 2018 in Global Sisters Report. Sr. Luisa Derouen is a pioneer in the “T” of LGBT ministry. A few women religious are ministering among transgender people today, but Sister Luisa was the first to do so, as early as 1999, when most Catholics were just coming to […]

Filed Under: God relationship, religious inclusion of transgender families, Spiritual, Transgender, Transgender Catholic, Transgender spirituality

To Leelah’s Parents and All Religious Parents of Transgender Teens

January 3, 2015 By Laura Thor

To Leelah’s Parents and All Religious Parents of Transgender Teens: Trust God, not fundamentalism I treat many transgender teens, from ages 14 up, and I meet many scared parents (although I meet many trusting, open parents too). The most scared are those who, paradoxically, could have the most trust: religious parents. Religion is supposed to […]

Filed Under: Family, God relationship, Transgender

Christmas, Alone

December 24, 2014 By Laura Thor

By happenstance, I’m alone today and tomorrow, Christmas Eve and Day. Last time this happened was half my lifetime ago, when I was just 24 and enduring a rough patch. That holiday was spent in unwelcome solitude, in a Minnesota winter with its usual awful cold. But it was not, in the end, an awful […]

Filed Under: God relationship, Spiritual, Transgender

Interfaith Transgender Spiritual Retreat A Success!

November 17, 2014 By Laura Thor

Neither snow nor cold kept transgender adults of several faiths–Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, Nazarene, Evangelical–from gathering in a warm cabin with good food, rich conversation and deep reflection over this past weekend on our Transgender Spiritual Retreat. Our goals were to simple: to take time away from busy lives to reconnect with the God of our individual […]

Filed Under: God relationship, interfaith retreat, queer theology, Spiritual, Transgender

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You Are Seen, Known & Loved: Psalm 139 Speaks to LGBTQ & All People

I have a counseling client whom I’ll call “Israel” because she’s always struggling against injustice and afraid that God’s love isn’t meant for her. Her pain inspires me to remind readers that while the  “clobber passages’ of the Bible have been mis-used to shame LGBTQ people, the bottom line message of the scriptures is that […]

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