The importance of lived experience and attentive reflection on it can hardly be over-emphasised. For those with a deep spiritual yearning, it is not the whole of the journey. The wisdom of the ages, particularly in holy scriptures and wider tradition, are vital to us all. Yet all of that is still nothing unless it connects and coheres in each human life. In turn, our own particular life journeys and spiritual experiences then enlarge those of others: past, present and future. For these are precious treasures for us all. They are not to be dismissed or despised, trampled on or cast aside, but honoured as expressions of human encounter with the divine and as fresh signals of transforming life. For God is both much much more mysterious and amazingly closer to us than we can ever imagine. Are we however taking enough time to linger, listen, love and be loved?
Some reflections on transgender and gender nonconforming experience:
No Risk No Life - by Sorel Coward
The Divine Call to Be Myself: Anglican Transgender Women and Prayer
- insightful reflections (by Ellen Clark-King) on the spiritual experiences of Anglican trans women
Gender and the Spiritual Heart - podcast interview with Anglican priest the Revd Dr Christina Beardsley
Living Trans Theology - by Jaelynn Pema-la-Scott
The art of human brokenness - by Sorel Coward
Gender as a gift - by Anna Magdalena Patti of CatholicTrans
Blessed are the Binary Breakers - a podcast by Avery Smith with spiritual conversations and stories from a wide range of trans & non-binary people
Our Table: Trans Spirituality Conversations - hosted by enfleshed
No Risk No Life - by Sorel Coward
The Divine Call to Be Myself: Anglican Transgender Women and Prayer
- insightful reflections (by Ellen Clark-King) on the spiritual experiences of Anglican trans women
Gender and the Spiritual Heart - podcast interview with Anglican priest the Revd Dr Christina Beardsley
Living Trans Theology - by Jaelynn Pema-la-Scott
The art of human brokenness - by Sorel Coward
Gender as a gift - by Anna Magdalena Patti of CatholicTrans
Blessed are the Binary Breakers - a podcast by Avery Smith with spiritual conversations and stories from a wide range of trans & non-binary people
Our Table: Trans Spirituality Conversations - hosted by enfleshed
Some blogs by writers with transgender or gender nonconforming experience:
Austen Hartke
Shannon T.Kearns
Rachael Mann
Anna Magdalena Patti
Carla Robinson
Megan Rohrer
Laura Beth Taylor
Paula Stone Williams
Alicia Johnston
Austen Hartke
Shannon T.Kearns
Rachael Mann
Anna Magdalena Patti
Carla Robinson
Megan Rohrer
Laura Beth Taylor
Paula Stone Williams
Alicia Johnston
The following documentary "Voices of Witness: Out of the Box" gave voice to the witness of transgender people of faith, telling their stories of hope, healing and wholeness.