I’m not interested in reimagining or rebuilding or fitting into or around existing structures. Majority American culture gives us binary options, and Jesus introduces us to new ways of being, including conceptions of community and family that are not heteronormative or nuclear. https://twitter.com/travelingnun/status/1305882745416151040

@timonmlee and I discussed this right after Revoice ended. When we resist existing structures, we put a pin in the machine that causes us and those around us to torque away from the conventional system and instead create something different or new.

Queer people are magic! Divine mystery! (Plot twist, Heterosexuals are too.) *Everyone* experiences sexuality differently but because queerness obviously doesn’t fit cis/heteronormative standards, it’s easier for us to notice the unique and diverse ways we bear the imago dei.

When we put a pin in the piece of the system that says everyone has the same heterosexuality, we give other pieces of the system opportunity to renegotiate. We create new spaces for queer people *and* straight people alike to explore the ways their sexuality is unique & God given

@timonmlee and I talked about this in specific reference to this tweet from @untilzion. Art’s commitment to celibacy isn’t reconstructing a heteronormative family structure that permits his queerness. Instead his celibacy is a catalyst for building a new & different community https://twitter.com/untilzion/status/1287207461351563269

I’m in a religious studies class where I’m the only practicing religious person. Everyone else is atheist or agnostic, and most people (including the prof) grew up Christian/Christian adjacent. Usually when we are asked about our world view, we are given very binary options.

I usually then raise my hand, and say “well, uh, once again, I reject the premise...what if [new option] could be true?” God provides new ways of being, outside of the limits of our imagination. Jesus literally resurrects, when the system says life & death are the only options.

My lived experience tips me off to ways that the world has mislead us and limited us. My friends with different experiences tip me off to ways the world has mislead and limited us that I wouldn’t have noticed! We can only become more authentically and fully ourselves *together*

Reconstructing heteronormative structures to fit queerness, doesn’t just limit the the queer person, it limits the entire community/Church.

TLDR: When we resist assuming and conforming ourselves into existing structures, and enter into new/third ways of being, we not only liberate ourselves but also those around us, and then those around them. (And they, in turn, liberate us.)