"So Get your High Heels on for Liberation,and Walk!" Some Reflections in Memory of Marcella Althaus-Reid

Abstract

Shore-Goss shares his personal and theological interactions with queer, Latina liberation theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid, and especially on how the Metropolitan Community Church was impacted by her voice and how she was influenced by the open commensality of the Metropolitan Community Church.     

Jesus ACTED UP and Any Possible Future of “Queer Theology”

What can we learn about the prospects for “queer theology” from how Goss wrote Jesus ACTED UP into the future for which he hoped? Theology seems to add four things to the book's political arguments and exhortations. It deepens the analyses of oppression, provides stronger means for re-education, invokes divine help, and doubles political theater with sacrament. These tasks of critique, re-education, invocation, and ritual will continue to define any Christian theology that might be called “queer.” Each requires the transformation of language. In order to have a future, queer theology must undertake a poiesis outside the endless prattle that sustains present power. Its poetry may first appear as silence.