A Queer Lectionary

(Im)proper Readings from the Margins - Year A

Peter Carlson

Seabury Books

Jul/2025, 416 Pages, Paperback, 7 x 10

ISBN: 9781640657953

$44.95

$44.95

From an interdenominational group of preachers and scholars, a queer commentary to address recent concerns around LGBTQ+ rights.

This preaching resource features commentaries on every Sunday and feast day reading in the Revised Common Lectionary from an interdenominational group of scholars and homeleticians. Offering queer interpretations of biblical texts, the series will appeal to scholars of queer theology and will support preachers in crafting sermons that convey a message of liberation, rather than one that reinforces the power structures of the world. 


A Queer Lectionary features commentators from a variety of liturgical traditions, including clergy and scholars from the Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Metropolitan Community Churches, and beyond. Written to enable preachers to engage with every assigned text, each volume features sermons that respond to every lesson in each lectionary entry. 

Peter Carlson is a scholar of religious history and gender. Their work has focused on constructions of masculinity and femininity in the late medieval and early modern periods, as well as theologies of sexuality and gender construction across religious traditions. A graduate of Claremont Graduate School and Wheaton College, Carlson was a fellow at Lincoln College Oxford. They are currently associate professor of religion at California Lutheran University, where they regularly teach courses in gender and queer theology and direct the gender and women’s studies minor. A committed Episcopalian, Carlson has presented to religious groups on the history of the Christian church, the pursuit and quality of sacred space, medieval history, and the history of gender and marriage. They also preach regularly. Carlson lives in Thousand Oaks, California.

Preface
Introduction

  1. Advent
    1. The First Sunday of Advent
    2. The Second Sunday of Advent
    3. The Third Sunday of Advent
    4. The Fourth Sunday of Advent
  2. The Incarnation of G-d
    1. The Nativity of Our Lord
    2. The First Sunday after Christmas
    3. The Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord/The Holy Name
    4. The Second Sunday after Christmas
  3. Epiphany
    1. The Epiphany of G-d
    2. Baptism of the Lord, First Sunday after Epiphany
    3. Second Sunday after Epiphany
    4. The Third Sunday after Epiphany
    5. The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
    6. The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
    7. The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
    8. The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany
    9. The Eighth Sunday after Epiphany
    10. Transfiguration Sunday
  4. Lent
    1. Ash Wednesday
    2. The First Sunday in Lent
    3. The Second Sunday in Lent
    4. The Third Sunday in Lent
    5. The Fourth Sunday in Lent
    6. The Fifth Sunday in Lent
  5. Palm Sunday and Holy Week
    1. Palm Sunday
    2. Monday in Holy Week
    3. Tuesday in Holy Week
    4. Wednesday in Holy Week
    5. Maundy Thursday
    6. Good Friday
    7. Holy Saturday
    8. Easter Day: Principal Service
    9. The Second Sunday in Easter
    10. The Third Sunday in Easter
    11. The Fourth Sunday in Easter
    12. The Fifth Sunday in Easter
    13. The Sixth Sunday in Easter
    14. Ascension Day
    15. The Seventh Sunday in Easter
  6. Pentecost and the Season Following
    1. Day of Pentecost
    2. Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost
    3. Proper 1, the Sunday closest to May 11
    4. Proper 2, the Sunday closest to May 18
    5. Proper 3, the Sunday closest to May 25
    6. The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, May 31
    7. Proper 4, the Sunday closest to June 1
    8. Proper 5, the Sunday closest to June 8
    9. Proper 6, the Sunday closest to June 15
    10. Proper 7, the Sunday closest to June 22
    11. Proper 8, the Sunday closest to June 29
    12. Proper 9, the Sunday closest to July 6
    13. Proper 10, the Sunday closest to July 13
    14. Proper 11, the Sunday closest to July 20
    15. Proper 12, the Sunday closest to July 27
    16. Proper 13, the Sunday closest to August 3
    17. Proper 14, the Sunday closest to August 10
    18. Proper 15, the Sunday closest to August 17
    19. Proper 16, the Sunday closest to August 24
    20. Proper 17, the Sunday closest to August 31
    21. Proper 18, the Sunday closest to September 7
    22. Feast of the Holy Cross, September 14
    23. Proper 19, the Sunday closest to September 14
    24. Proper 20, the Sunday closest to September 21
    25. Proper 21, the Sunday closest to September 28
    26. Proper 22, the Sunday closest to October 5
    27. Proper 23, the Sunday closest to October 12
    28. Proper 24, the Sunday closest to October 19
    29. Proper 25, the Sunday closest to October 26
    30. All Saints Day
    31. Proper 26, the Sunday closest to November 2
    32. Proper 27, the Sunday closest to November 9
    33. Proper 28, the Sunday closest to November 16
    34. Proper 29, the Reign of Christ

Contributors
Scripture Index

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