#queering lent

Book Review by Gary Simpson

Name: Queering Lent Author: Slats ISBN: 9781974465323 Date: 2017 Length: 67

In Catholic, Anglo-Catholic and Lutheran traditions, there are books of liturgy, which help in the preparation of worship services.  Many people serve as lay and ordained worship leaders in faith traditions that do not have prayer books.  Sometimes, the process of writing liturgy flows, quickly, effortlessly.  Other weeks, the liturgy is painfully challenging.  Queering Lent is a book that has a poem for liturgy for each day of Lent (not including Sundays) and for Easter.  The book also has a short Easter reflection.

By buying it! :D

Queering Lent is 10000% worth purchasing; the poems are so profound and transformative, and in buying it you support a very cool nonbinary Christian (who is getting married to another, equally cool trans Christian this year, whoo!!)

the vision is a beautiful one, full of mystery and paradox and peace: the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and kid, the calf, the lion, the fatling, the cow and bear and all their children, playing, living, together, led by a child.

"how beautiful!" you say, and paint paintings and sing songs and celebrate this vision

and it is beautiful. it is also unnatural.

these instinctive relationships these clearly established hierarchies these unshakable binaries: predator, prey, built into DNA, built into the natural order, set aside for a higher purpose-- peace.

and you call us unnatural. you spit that word at us as an insult. we, who redefine relationships and challenge hierarchies and break binaries -- and so you come to our holy places to hurt and destroy us

because you cannot see: your vision of peace is queer.