Reconnect with spirituality on your own terms
Doubts welcome. Toxic theology? We'll pass.
Every Wednesday, we (Brian & Fr. Shay) write a personal email for LGBTQ people of faith like us (and a few cool straight, cisgender peeps who are dedicated to being rock-solid allies).
We share what recovering from conservative Christianity can look like. Purity culture, homophobia, well-intentioned-but-sometimes-hurtful family, unaffirming pastors.
We share our best insight on building a faith that fits for you — whether your journey is reclaiming Christianity, taking some time away, or leaving for good.
We’re works-in-progress ourselves and we’ve supported thousands of other works-in-progress along their journey of spiritual healing and renewal. We’d love to journey alongside you, too.
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Let us know your name + Email and we'll send you our weekly emails + Occasional specials
The longest running LGBTQ Christian podcast, the first explicitly queer Christian platform, a message reaching around the world, Brian & Fr. Shay have been preaching the good news of the queer gospel since 2013.
Brian and Fr. Shay met in New York in one of those friend of a friend serendipitious moments. Through a couple years of Skype conversations, text messaging, and personal activism they realized that they could do a lot more if they worked together! Both have been changed and strengthened by their queer identities and wanted to share that strength with others. They started queertheology.com in 2013.
Together, they’ve started and broken open conversations around
- Purity culture
- Sex-positivity
- Queer bodies
- Transgender theology
- The interplay between Queer activism and Christian activism (from Palm Sunday to ACT UP)
- Christianity & Polyamory
- and more
Their message has reached over 1,000,000 people in over 200 countries through their website, podcast, and videos.
More than that, it’s inspired a new way to talk about gender, sexuality, and justice by others such as the #FaithfullyLGBT conversation, the Queerology podcast, Queerly Beloved tees, the Our Bible App, and more. They have forever changed the public discourse around queerness and Christianity.
Fr. Shay, Brian, and QueerTheology.com have been featured in
Shannon TL Kearns
Father Shannon TL Kearns is a transgender man whose playwriting is obsessed with big questions told through small stories.
He is a playwright, Artistic Director, sometimes actor, speaker, priest, and theologian. He is committed to work by and for marginalized communities, using writing to create a new future for all of us.
Father Shannon TL Kearns is a seminary graduate (M.Div 2009 from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York). He is a Priest in the Old Catholic Church. Shannon is the founder and Artistic Director of Uprising Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN. He is the co-founder of QueerTheology.com. He was a Finnovation Fellow in 2019/2020, a Lambda Literary Fellow in 2019, and is a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow for 2020/2021.
Brian G. Murphy
Brian G. Murphy is an activist, educator, and certified relationship coach.
For the past decade, he has worked on social justice and faith-based activism. He participated in the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride, co-founded Legalize Trans, and most recently partnered with Fr. Shannon Kearns to create QueerTheology.com.
Through his work as a coach and content creator, Brian helps LGBTQ+ people claim their sexuality and gender, set healthy boundaries, develop meaningful spiritual practices, and step into an ever-more fulfilling life, all the while spreading the good news of the queer gospel to straight, cisgender Christians as well.
Brian has spoken about faith, sexuality, gender and justice at dozens of colleges and conferences across the USA.