For today’s Liberating Liturgy, I am happy to share with you a creed from Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu. I really love this creed–it draws from sources as various as Charles Wesley and Samuel L. Jackson. I hope you’ll enjoy it as well.  Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu is a writer, activist, and undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he studies Social Work and Spanish.  Kenji is a multiracial Christian who is passionate about event planning, being an RA, and connecting... Read more

Today’s Liberating Liturgy post comes from KP. They decided not to write their own liturgy, but to share with us a story told by a Jewish rabbi, and to rethink some classical Catholic liturgy. I found their perspective so important, and I know you’ll enjoy it as well.    KP lectures on Japanese lore, culture, and comparative religion. Help them continue their work at Crowdrise. _____ A Jewish story of the rabbis – this one of Simcha Bunim Bonhart –... Read more

I recently shared a post called “A Creed And A Call,” in which I shared my rewritten Apostles’ Creed, and then called for others to submit their own Liberating Liturgies–either liturgies that empower you, liturgies that you’ve rewritten to make them empowering, or empowering liturgies that you’ve written yourself! I didn’t have room in that last post to do much commentary on my Apostles’ Creed, and I got several questions about it: Who is Sophia? Why Mother Bear? I’d like... Read more

Some background information: Recently, fellow Patheos blogger John Shore wrote a post dismissing all of his critics–from the homophobic/transphobic conservatives, to some of the actual LGBTQ+ people he claims to be be an ally to–claiming that God is on his side. As a queer person who has had problems with Shore’s writing in the past, I was frustrated to see Shore lump criticisms from LGBTQ people in with criticisms from bigots, and flippantly dismiss them. I was especially frustrated with... Read more

Recently, Travis Greene wrote a blog post about the state of the “Progressive Christian Internet.” This seems to be a popular topic lately–I’ve already written about it myself, arguing that one of the problems with the “Progressive Christian Internet” is that we assume there actually is a homogenous group of Christian progressives on the internet who are want the same things and have the same goals. Greene’s piece alerted me to another piece that appears to be on this same topic, written... Read more