Introduction: Queering the Table 1
Robert E. Shore-Goss
At the Open Table Café 25
Douglas Smith
Part I. Radically Inclusive Models of God 29
Patrick S. Cheng
1. Faithful to a Very Queer-Acting God, Who Is Always Up to Something New 33
Robin H. Gorsline
2. Cur Deus Homo[sexual] : The Queer Incarnation 51
Patrick S. Cheng
3. Grace Is Green: Incarnational Inclusivities 65
Robert E. Shore-Goss
4. The Transgendered Christ 83
Megan More
5. The Holy Spirit as Mischief-Maker 97
Robert E. Shore-Goss
Part II. Opening the Body of Christ 121
Thomas Bohache
6. Can We Sex This? Eroticizing Divinity and Humanity 127
Thomas Bohache
7. Reinterpreting Baptism: An Ongoing Dialogue 145
Bryce E. Rich
8. Toward a Church of Radical Christmas: The Open Communion in MCC and
Its Ecclesiological Consequences 179
Axel Schwaigert
9. Beyond the Open Table: Queering Holy Communion 191
Rachelle Brown
10. Innovations in Queer Theology: Embodying MCC’s Open Communion through Theatre of the Oppressed 205
Kerri Mesner
11. Communion: Playing with Redemption 229
Nick Arnzen with the Cast and Friends of Corpus Christi
12. Bodhisattva Christianity: A Case of Multiple Religious Belonging 251
Robert E. Shore-Goss
13. Unzipping Church: Is There Room for Everyone? 271
Thomas Bohache
Part III. Opening the Table Pastorally 293
Mona West
14. Pastoral Care of Transgendered Youth 297
Joseph Shore-Goss
15. Putting on Wedding Drag: Pastoral Care for Healing and Wholeness in the Queer Congregation 323
Joan M. Saniuk
16. An Inclusive Table: Same-Sex Marriage 339
Neil Thomas
17. Coming to the Table in Leather 355
Lea Brown
18. Queer Lectio Divina 371
Mona West
19. Spiritual Companioning: The Art of Being Present to the Spiritual Traveler and Lighting the Path 381
Joseph Shore-Goss
20. Queer Hymnody: Celebrating Lesbian and Gay Poets and Composers 397
James Mitulski, Donna Hamilton, and Nancy Hall