Queer Redemption

Queer Redemption

For far too long, the lives of queer people and the life of the church have been seen as incompatible – as impossible, even, to reconcile. In recent years and in some quarters, there have been increasing moves towards inclusion and affirmation, and yet some of the fundamentals remain untouched. Queerness remains somehow alien, somehow different, and the church remains unchanged.

In this talk, author and priest Charlie Bell will ask what might happen if queerness was allowed to liberate the whole church, seen as a gift to the whole rather than something for the margins. What might happen if queer lives, loves, and relationships were taken as read, rather than treated as a matter of debate? What is this queer theology? And what might a queer-infused church look like?

Join us for an afternoon of insight and conversation.

About the Presenter

Charlie Bell is Official Fellow and College Lecturer in Medicine and Public Theology at Girton College, Cambridge, and a Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry at St George’s and Southwest London NHS Foundation Trust. He is a priest in the Diocese of Southwark, Scholar in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, and a Research Fellow and Associate Tutor at St Augustine’s College of Theology. He has published in both medicine and theology, and in the space between the two. His research interests are primarily in the field of theological anthropology, including culpability, responsibility, and determinism. He is also research active in psychiatry, investigating possible biological signatures for psychiatric and personality disorder.

Location: In-person at the President's Lodge at Atlantic School of Theology, 630 Francklyn Street, Halifax, or online (link to be emailed to registered participants)

Time and Date: 1:00pm-3:00pm, Friday, October 4, 2024

Cost: Free

Presented by Atlantic School of Theology and the Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Host or Publisher Atlantic School of Theology