Queering Liturgy

Convener: Daniel Rodriguez Schlorff (daniel@schlorff.com) is the Senior Minister of the Third Congregational Church in Middletown, Connecticut. He earned the D.Min. and Certificate of Sexuality and Religion from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.

Members in Attendance: Stephanie Budwey, Bryan Cones, Scott Haldeman, C.J. Jones, Don LaSalle, Jason McFarland, Geoffrey Moore, Terry Todd, Lis Valle-Ruiz, Andrew Wymer

Visitors: Daniel Rodriguez Schlorff

Description of Work: The Queering the Liturgy Seminar examined newly completed books, chapters, and articles about queer topics and methodologies, written by seminar members.

Papers and Presentations:

• Stephanie A. Budwey, “The Liturgy Is the Expression of All the People of God, and All Those People Need to Have Their Voices Heard: Intersex from Liturgical Perspectives,” a chapter from her book Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology (Routledge, 2023).

• Bryan Cones. “‘A Queer Fidelity’ Revisited: Beyond Same-gender ‘Marriage’.”

• Jason McFarland, “Mass Antiphons and the Dialectic of Liturgical Genre and Translation,” Questions Liturgiques 102:1-2 (2022): 118-135.

Other Work and Plans for the Future: The 2024 seminar will focus on the collaborative book project Queering Worship (Seabury, forthcoming), to which several of the Queering the Liturgy Seminar members have contributed.