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Language around sexuality and gender has shifted and changed throughout history. New words have emerged and existing words have altered…

—Storying the Queer-Spiritual Sensibility For many queer people, an evolving relationship with their queerness and contemporary queer communities can have…

Our primary stress comes from living in shame and fear, often resulting from misidentification with the image/objective world, and often with the past traumas and experiences where we were forced to react to ordinary situations in survival mode.  

What is the story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it true? Is it time to change the story you carry within to align with your inner truth?

Scholars are practitioners of academia. Many people, initially in the West and eventually globally, have had a millennium to imagine the knowledge and research that are data for academia, which is solely the creation of scholars’ studies. It is created…

In many religious environments around the world, being gay, gender-bending, or otherwise queer is considered a surefire recipe for eternal damnation.

From my perspective a scholar-practitioner is someone who consciously integrates into his or her scholarship the insights culled from engaging in the practices prescribed by the tradition he or she researches, publishes about and teaches.

My practice deeply informs my scholarship because I’ve become aware of the contemplative hermeneutics underlying the visual material and textual cultures of the traditions that I teach.