Hello and happy Sunday. I’ve been busy today doing chores and planning my week, so I haven’t had the chance to sit down and relax yet. However, if you do, and if you want to read a book that will help you heal your relationship with faith (especially if, like me, you’re queer), consider reading Beyond Worship, edited by James Admans.

I would describe this as a collection of pieces in different formats about queer and/or trans individuals and how they experience faith. Most of them are Christian, but there are authors from various religious or spiritual affiliations. One of the pieces that resonated with me the most was a poem written by a Jewish author.

This is a very short book and I read it in like two sittings because I was kind of busy, but you can totally read it in one sitting, as it is beautifully arranged in a way that isn’t daunting at all even if the topics can be dense to some. There was one particular piece that I skipped altogether because I didn’t connect with it at all, but other than that I thoroughly enjoyed the book as a whole and its individual contributions.