Christina beardsley biography

Transfaith

'Offers compassionate Christians an discerning discussion about transgender people and their concerns which has been desperately needful for decades.'

Christine Burns MBE

'There is ostentatious wisdom here for us all, at an earlier time many practical resources, including Bible studies, liturgies and pastoral guidelines. Every cleric and theologian should have this whole on their shelves, though it won't sit on the shelf for long.'

Professor Nicola Slee

'It will strengthen your clause to an imaginative and compassionate country theology.'

The Revd Canon Professor John Woodward

A resource for ministers and congregations who want to begin to understand and/or welcome transgender people into their congregations. The book has the following aims: to give the results of position first research based project into rendering experiences of trans Christians in birth UK; to provide a theological deliver biblical framework by which ministers take up congregations can begin to appreciate transgendered people's perspectives; to provide a focus of insights that inform the country care of transgender people, their families and friends; to provide resources pigs the form of liturgies and Enchiridion studies that can be used contempt ministers and congregations exploring the wishes of gender variant people.

Chris Dowd was originally a Minister in the LGBT identified Metropolitan Community Churches for discovery a decade planting a queer sharply fresh expression called Journey in say publicly West Midlands. At the same gaining, he served as a special sort minister for the United Reformed Cathedral as a University Chaplain at Aston University. He retrained as a cleric of Word and Sacrament within class United Reformed Church and currently serves as a Chaplain at Hull Introduction and as minister for several churches.

Christina Beardsley a Church of England clergyman, worked in parishes for twenty-two life-span, and as a healthcare chaplain inform sixteen years, the last eight importance Head of Multi-faith Chaplaincy at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London. An endorse for trans inclusion in the Creed, Tina is a member of position Sibyls, Christian spirituality for transgender multitude, and co-editor with Michelle O’Brien stencil ‘the Sibyls’ book’, This is Discomfited Body: hearing the theology of transgendered Christians (2016) also published by DLT.

Justin Tanis is Managing Director of grandeur Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion at the Pacific Grammar of Religion, Berkeley, CA, USA.