Gender Expansive Theology

‘Living into a gender norm is not on God’s agenda. Living into love and grace and mercy and forgiveness and invitation — that’s on God’s agenda.’

Steff Fenton

Are there more expansive ways to think about God, creation and gender than those we are typically presented?

Steff Fenton thinks so, and this week we have a fantastic chat about it on the podcast. Steff is a pastor at NewCity Church(along with Joel Hollier who you may remember from our earlier episode).

On Steff’s website they introduce themselves as follows: “I’m a genderqueer pastor, writer, speaker and theologian helping people discover how endlessly loving God is.”

And the way Steff speaks about God is deep and wide and beautiful.

We had a chat about gender expansive theology, and explored all kinds of interesting questions around gender, theology, church, scripture and all that jazz.

What I loved about this conversation was Steff took us beyond just accepting or including trans and gender diverse people in church, to actually asking: 

what role might these wonderful humans have in showing us something about what God is like?

I think this episode contains an invitation, to see both God and humanity in a more expansive way. I hope that’s your experience, as you listen.

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Steff Fenton on gender expansive theology – Spiritual Misfits Podcast

This week’s episode is a fantastic chat with Steff Fenton. Steff is a pastor at NewCity Church, along with Joel Hollier who you may remember from our earlier episode. On Steff’s website they introduce themselves as follows: “I’m a genderqueer pastor, writer, speaker and theologian helping people discover how endlessly loving God is.”And the way Steff speaks about God is deep and wide and beautiful.  We had a chat about gender expansive theology, and explored all kinds of interesting questions around gender, theology, church, scripture and all that jazz.  What I loved about this conversation was Steff took us beyond what it might look to accept or include trans and gender diverse people in church, to actually asking what role might these wonderful humans have in showing us something about what God is like? I think this episode contains an invitation, to see both God and humanity in a more expansive way. I hope that’s your experience, as you listen. Learn more about Steff's work here: https://www.steffenton.co Sign up to our mailing list:https://spiritualmisfits.com.au/Join our online Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spiritualmisfitspodcastSupport the pod:https://spiritualmisfits.com.au/support-us/Send us an email: Spiritualmisfits@outlook.comView all episodes and access transcripts at: https://spiritualmisfits.buzzsprout.com

Connect with Steff at: https://www.steffenton.co