What is “Queer Theology”?

If theology told the truth, it would speak of bodies, of flesh.

Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology

Theology that speaks of bodies and flesh is so radically different from the kind I grew up with. I learned theology through discussions with my father, a Presbyterian minister, around the dinner table from the time I was about five years old. We talked about what God’s love and grace meant in our…