Queering the Pulpit

“This is the book we’ve been waiting for! Queering the Pulpit is the first of its kind—a comprehensive approach to preaching that takes gender, sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ concerns into account. Whether you identify as Queer or desire to integrate Queer concerns into your preaching, this book provides what you need: a history of Queer folx, biblical foundations, theological grounding, and sermon approaches. Karyn Wiseman’s scholarship is honest, witty, and vulnerable—a gift to the church.”


—Leah D. Schade, associate professor of preaching and worship, Lexington Theological Seminary





“Karyn Wiseman offers an urgent guide for preachers to decolonize embedded Queer-phobic praxis. Vulnerable, funny, and heartbreaking, this is a compelling call for bold ‘sexegetically’ informed preaching that affirms and embraces Queer folx rather than merely tolerating these beloved children of G-D.”


—Casey T. Sigmon, assistant professor of preaching and worship, Saint Paul School of Theology





“This is the book we’ve all been waiting for! With a clever blend of humor, self-disclosure, and poetic panache, Karyn Wiseman’s book delivers a prophetic punch to the heteronormative homiletical assumptions persisting in the academy and the church. This will be required reading for my preaching students moving forward.”


—Jacob D. Myers, associate professor of homiletics, Columbia Theological Seminary