Outside the Lines Quotes

“A queer spirituality allows for loving pandemonium--the challenge of shifts and transitions, the realization that we are shaped by each other, and the emergence of new identities, new creations within each relationship.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“Church is kind of a “borderland,” as Gloria E. Anzaldúa writes: “It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”[3] When I read her words, I think about how much Jesus crossed over into what is prohibited and forbidden in his ministry, in all his dining, traveling, consorting, working, living, drinking, and partying with those who would fit that category of banned. And every time he crossed over, he created community by making space for everyone. Yet our communities and these spaces are not without struggle. There’s a struggle for lines to mark one’s home or yard or walls or room, so that who you are makes sense. There’s a struggle for love. The struggle is what binds us together, and we perform and embody it through words, sacrament and song, pews and prayers, cup and communion. It’s how we resist the darkness. This is church. This is church for everyone.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“Bodies are more than containers for our souls. They are themselves so deeply spiritual that God thought it was necessary to have one, too.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“We focus so much on what happens in the pews and the pulpit, the bread and the cup that we overlook the process our bodies take toward the table and then the journey outward from the table.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“Queer intimacies are radical expressions of desire that open up traditional definitions and categories, and they invite us into understanding our humanity in new ways.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“Loving a desiring God is a fuller picture of a God who also yearns for our happiness, our joy, and yes, even our pleasure.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“Enjoying God is a way to Glorify God”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“This change in naming is life-giving for women, certainly, but for all of humanity, too, shifting all those relationships... All throughout the Scriptures, we see this tradition in which a new name signals a new reality.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

“When I look back, I can hardly see an extended period of time when there was no crisis concerning my identity, whether it was getting my period or rebelling against being the hardworking Asian student. In fact, I can say with all honesty that I struggled throughout most of my life to name myself, to know myself, to recognize myself when I looked in the mirror.”
― Mihee Kim-Kort, Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith