Queer for Christ

Queer [’kwir], adj: a: differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal; b(1) ECCENTRIC, UNCONVENTIONAL; (2) mildly insane: TOUCHED; c: absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree, OBSESSED; d(1): often disparaging: HOMOSEXUAL; (2) sometimes offensive: GAY or (n.) a person of homosexual orientation.

“Queer for Christ:” to be unusually, abnormally, eccentrically, unconventionally, extremely, unreasonably, insanely interested in, absorbed and obsessed with Jesus..

…it may also mean you’re a follower of Christ who happens to be gay as a goose.

Hello, friends and all nutty enough to visit a blog called QueerforChrist! I’m Terry Milner, a very new blogger and spouse of Gabe Lamazares, who (Bishop, please take note) can in no way can be held responsible for anything I write on here!

QueerforChrist is a place where I hope people will come to read and talk about how to be a new kind of Christian, inhabiting a new Christianity that is really very old. It is also a place where people of all faiths can see a diversity of Christian thought and feeling through the perspective of progressive Christian lay people like me and others who wish to laugh, learn, hear and be heard. Above all, I pray it will always be a place where the uncomfortable truth, or something very like it, will always be told.

A word about the banner art: this is an incredibly moving picture of what is perhaps the most intact remaining piece of what was once Christ Episcopal Church in Bay St. Louis, a coastal town in my home state of Mississippi. It was taken during the cleanup after someone found the parish’s crucifix and set it up on the former site of the church. If you take a look at the original photo, you can get the full picture of devastation, with this particularly moving image of Jesus on the cross appearing to weep for all who were lost, or who lost, on that day.

And while we’re on the subject, let me just say that this woman, the Definitely Reverend Elizabeth Wheatley Jones of Christ Church, Bay St. Louis, shown here standing in the TENT that is her NAVE, may be my new favorite Episcopal Priest, next to +Lisa, and U.C. when he actually becomes one. Send her your prayers, including the green kind, please.