Keegan Osinski has genuinely broken new ground with Queering Wesley, Queering the Church. I know of no other published book that directly engages with how Wesley himself might be read and understood queerly and the implications of that for churches in the Methodist and Wesleyan traditions. She is Librarian for Theology and Ethics at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Her work comes from a deep engagement with the Wesleyan tradition and inheritance of theology. This book is truly distinctive, but it builds on Mildred Bangs Wynkoop’s A Theology of Love and recognizes Pamela Lightsey’s Our Lives Matter as ‘the first major published work integrating Wesleyan theology with a constructive theology’ (4). At a time when globally the Methodist family—and the Christian church more generally—continues to wrestle with questions of gender and sexuality, this book makes a vitally important contribution.
Osinski offers queer reflections...
