Beatitudes for a queerer church by Jay Hulme - In celebration of LGBT+ History Month
Award winning trans Christian performance poet, speaker and educator, Jay Hulme.
THIS is a poem by an award winning trans Christian performance poet, speaker and educator, Jay Hulme, from his 2021 book The Backwater Sermons.
Hear Open Table Network Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young, a trans Christian pioneer minister and theologian, read Beatitudes for a queerer church [1min].
Blessed are the outcasts;
the ostracised, the outsiders.Blessed are the scared;
the scarred, the silent.Blessed are the broken;
for they are not broken.Blessed are the hated;
for they are not worthy of hate.Blessed are those who try;
those who transform, who transition.Blessed are the closeted;
God sees you shine anyway.Blessed are the queers;
who love creation enough to live the truth of it,
despite a world that tells them they cannot.And blessed are those
who believe themselves unworthy of blessing;
what inconceivable wonders you hold.