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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Article 3: What is Queer Ministry?

Rev Jake Tatton

Queer ministry is, of course, nothing but a concept; perhaps no more than an aspiration. Yet, as our Queer communities journey towards God's New Realm, these aspirational concepts must be dwelt upon. This paper will identify definitions of Queer and of ministry. It will then overlay the two, in order to offer a vision of Queer ministry as the activity of integration into wholeness of individuals and community, through transgression and transcendence. This activity seeks to cultivate the establishment of God's New Realm. I will identify this transgressive integration as Queer hospitality ethics; central to our Queer, Christian communities.

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