Enter to win Beyond Worship - Meditations on Queer Worship, Liturgy, & Theology
Enter to win Beyond Worship - Meditations on Queer Worship, Liturgy, & Theology by James Admans. To enter the contest, fill out the form below between Friday, February 17, and Friday, March 10.
Beyond Worship started as a digital zine published Fort Washington Collegiate Church's website with only a few contributors. Under the direction of Minister James Admans (they/them) and funded by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, the zine Beyond Worship sought to collect any written material by LGBTQIA+ authors that could be shared in a worship space. The goal was to not only demonstrate that LGBTQIA+ members of the church are accepted, but part of the community and have something to contribute.
When Publisher Lori Perkins, a member of Fort Washington, read the zine, she was immediately inspired to expand upon the idea of belonging in a community not just to LGBTQIA+ members of Fort Washington, but any LGBTQIA+ person struggling to find a sense of belonging in a community that they can call home and wanting, but struggling, to find their relationship with a higher purpose.
Beyond Worship seeks to show LGBTQIA+ people that they are divine, here for a reason, and have so much to contribute to their communities.
Whether a poem, a short story, a psalm, a meditative guide, or an academic paper, each LGBTQIA+ author in this anthology explores what it means to find community and love in a society that tells them they are undeserving of both. From all over the world and from a variety of faith traditions, each author's piece shows readers different ways of being in a world worth experiencing.
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Riverdale Avenue Books is an award winning, innovative hybrid publisher at the leading edge of the changes in the publishing industry.We publish e-books and print titles under 15 imprints: Desire, an erotica/erotic romance imprint; Magnus, the award-winning LGBTQ+ non-fiction imprint from lifestyle to memoir; Magnus Lit, a collection of LGBTQ+ fiction titles; Pop featuring pop culture titles; Afraid, a horror line; SFF, a science fiction fantasy line; Truth, an erotic memoir line; Dagger, a mystery thriller imprint; Sports and Gaming featuring sports and gaming titles; Verve featuring lifestyle titles; Hera featuring both the true and fictional lives and loves of women aged 35 and up; 120 Days, an LGBT pulp fiction line; Binge Watcher's, featuring Binge Watcher's Guides and Circlet, an erotic science fiction and fantasy imprint. Started in 2012 by industry veteran Lori Perkins, Riverdale is a full service publisher, with a subsidiary rights department.Visit us at www.RiverdaleAveBooks.com.
