As people of faith, we all need help finding ways to reach those who have been pushed away. Practical frameworks with specific actions, grounded in lived experience. Stay tuned — more strategies are being added throughout the year.
The LGBTQIA+ acronym names a community, but it doesn't flatten one. Bisexual, pansexual, asexual, aromantic, intersex, non-binary, and genderfluid people each carry distinct experiences of the church — and distinct needs for welcome. This site is working toward resources that honor that specificity. We are not there yet. We are building toward it with honesty and intention.
The words a church uses and the images it chooses send signals before anyone speaks. A practical look at what to examine and how to change it.
Read →How to make sure queer people are included in your congregation's communications throughout the year — not just in June.
Read →Trans Christians have been worshipping in our churches for centuries — often in silence, often in pain. This strategy is being developed with trans collaborators and will ground congregations in history and theology before asking them to act.
Communicating welcome to Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous people requires reckoning honestly with the church's colonial history. This strategy is being developed with Indigenous voices and will be published when it is ready to be published well.
Intersectional welcome requires voices from inside the community. This strategy is being developed in collaboration with queer people of color and will be published when it reflects their experience, not ours.
Queer immigrants face compounded vulnerabilities that require pastoral care grounded in lived experience. This strategy is being developed with immigrant voices and will be published when it is ready to be published well.
Practical pastoral care guidance for the full range of queer family structures.
What it actually takes to support queer people already in leadership — and to make the church a place where more queer people feel called toward ordination rather than warned off from it. Being developed with queer clergy and seminarians.