She reminds her readers of a basic premise sexual identity is not fixed. Lightsey’s book takes the reader on a journey to explore contemporary debates such as same sex marriage and ordination rights. “I wanted to write what I felt would be a love story to Christians that God does love them (LGBTQ individuals) …People wrote me and thanked me…It is sad that there are still people out there that believe God hates them…This is a sad commentary, not on God, but on Christian leadership,” she stated in her interview. “This deserved some analysis and interrogation,” she proclaimed.

Lightsey states that she wrote the book because there was no book by or about Black queer women. She is enjoying a certain liberty at MLTS and learning new language and ways of thinking about the sacred and divine. As a Christian and Methodist working in a Unitarian Universalist context, she indicated in the podcast interview that she is learning to respect different ways of thinking and being. She currently serves as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological School (MLTS). Lightsey is the first out African American ordained queer lesbian elder in the United Methodist Church as of August, 2015. Elder status is the highest order one can attain in the United Methodist Church. Lightsey is a womanist theologian, and an ordained elder in the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church. Lightsey, and a Queer Theology Bible Podcast interview with Lightsey. This review combines both a book review of Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology by Rev. Lightsey explores the impact of oppression against Black LBGTQ women and introduces her reader to queer theology. Using a womanist methodological approach, Rev. Podcast Review – Queer Theology Bible Podcast – Intersections with Rev.

Historic Gathering of First Black UU Clergy Women.Congregational Research & Archival Project.Spiritual Care in an Age of #BlackLivesMatter.Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology.Communities of Resistance and Solidarity.The Call to Care: Essays by UU Chaplains.

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