The Genderweird Vibe of God
The core of the anti-trans movement, and therefore anti-trans theology, is restriction. A restriction placed upon the possibilities held within humanity, and a restriction placed upon God.
Essays - Jay Hulme
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A Glimpse of Heaven
One of the many astounding things about the Eucharist is the way it exists within God’s conception of time, not ours. The way it, like Angels, transcends mortal conceptions of time and space, while simultaneously colliding, unbelievably, with it.
It Is Good For Us To Be Here
I find it important to remind myself, to remind you all, that doing the work isn’t the only important thing. That being with God, that is the important thing.
What Will You Create?
I think, perhaps, humans are creation, run wild. We are what happens when the drive to create is coupled with the freedom to create whatever we want.
To Save Your Life
What is more of the gospel - what is better news - than the truth of who we are? Living, breathing examples of the expansiveness of God’s creation, and the love which God has for each and every one of us?
Have We Done Enough?
It is when you are actively inclusive in a world that is actively exclusive that it is easiest to think that your work is done. To slip into that danger of thinking “I have done enough”.
Through Cloud and Shade: Poetry as Theological Revelation
Preached during Evensong at Jesus College Chapel, Oxford on Sunday 23rd of January 2022
Trans Day of Remembrance Sermon
Preached at St Nicholas’ Church, Leicester on Sunday 21st of November 2021, for the memorial service marking Transgender Day of Remembrance. Readings Isaiah 43:1-7 But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the…
Jesus at the Gay Bar
A little bit of theology behind one of the poems from ‘The Backwater Sermons’
KempisBot
I turned a 15th century theological masterpiece into a Twitter thread that is also quite probably the world’s weirdest, slowest, book club.
Plague Poems
Near the start of lockdown I began to write a series of Plague Poems - here they are.
On Calling God a 'Bitch'
A personal essay: It turns out that calling God a “Bitch” gets His attention.
Transphobes and Trans Men
A look at how transphobes treat trans men.
A War in Words
A short explanation of transphobes and their use of language.