Reflections and Stories

'Find Your Identity in Christ': Transness as Vocation

When I first came out as non-binary and trans eight years ago, some people tried to tell me I should ‘find my identity in Christ’ - not in my transness or my non- binary gender. I didn’t understand why they thought my gender and my identity in Christ were mutually exclusive, especially when they...

OCD in Faith Spaces: OCD Awareness Week

CW: religious OCD, but no specifics of obsessions or compulsions

When I was about 14 I remember telling a friend that it felt like I couldn’t control my mind. These thoughts that I didn’t like would stick around, and I couldn’t do anything but give in to their demands if I wanted to get...

Meeting Jesus in Psychoanalysis: Lent 2024

Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ

 Galatians 6:2

Psychoanalysis is an intensive therapeutic treatment invented by Sigmund Freud (1857-1939), that aims to make unconscious processes conscious.

I started...

Reflections from the Transgender Theology Conference

I attended the first day of the Transgender Theology Conference from home via Zoom. The Zoom quality was excellent, making it very accessible to me as someone with an energy limiting condition. The premise of the conference, “The pastoral care of transgender, intersex, and non-binary people”...