“Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith”
Mihee Kim-Kort
Fortress Press, 2018, 212 Pages

At A Glance: “Outside the Lines” is an insightful exploration of how queer identity can deepen one’s spiritual life and understanding of God’s boundless love, blending personal experiences with biblical insights to advocate for an inclusive, transformative queer spirituality.

Overview: In “Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith,” Mihee Kim-Kort, a Presbyterian minister who identifies as queer, explores the transformative power of accepting her queer sexuality and its impact on her spirituality and relationship with God. Contrary to alienating her, Kim-Kort’s queerness brings her closer to Jesus, enriching her understanding of divine love as inherently queer and boundary-breaking.

Through a blend of personal narrative and biblical interpretation, the book examines how Jesus’s life and teachings exhibit a God who loves in radical, queer ways, challenging conventional boundaries. Kim-Kort invites readers to embrace a queer spirituality that transcends rigid categories, advocating for a love that mirrors God’s all-encompassing love, thereby redefining our connection to each other and the larger body of Christ, beyond any lines of exclusion.

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