Queer in Christ - January 2024

In this Issue


  • Next QuiC Leadership Meeting: Tonight!
  • Queer Conversations: Sunday evening
  • Clearing Space for God: A Lenten Conversation Series
  • A Queer in Christ Writing Group is Forming

Upcoming Meetings & Events

Next QuiC Planning Meeting: Tonight!


Friday, January 5 at 6:30pm on Zoom


The next QuiC planning meeting is tonight, Friday evening, January 5, 2024 at 6:30 on Zoom. Join us as we discuss ideas for future QuiC events, especially if you have any ideas or interest in helping make new events happen. We will start to discuss ideas for this year's Transgender observances and Pride month festivities. Contact Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org) to receive the Zoom link if you’d like to attend. Note: These planning meetings occur on the first Friday evening of October, January and April (there will not be a leadership meeting in July). Consider joining one of these planning meetings to discuss what events we plan for the future!

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Queer Conversations


Next event this Sunday evening, January 7 at 5:30pm in Leffler Living Room


Join us on Sunday, January 7 at 5:30pm in Leffler Living Room after Choral Evensong for the next Queer Conversations. We will be joined by Canon Jennifer King Daugherty and Rachel Crosbie as co-facilitators of the conversation, discussing how queer people can find meaning in religious expression while also honoring their gender, gender identity, and orientation, and how the church's theology affirms and nurtures this integration. We will have refreshments starting at 5:30, and the conversation will start about 5:45. We are planning on this being an in-person event, but please let us know if you would prefer to join remotely so we can accommodate if needed.


Looking forward: at the February 4 Queer Conversations, we will be joined by Michael Garrett, MS, CCM, Saint Mark's Parishioner and health Equity and Clinical Consultant. Michael will join us to discuss the challenges queer people face with health conditions and healthcare providers, as well as opportunities in finding and receiving queer-inclusive care from healthcare practitioners, health systems, and long-term care services. And in March, we will be joined by The Reverend Linzi Stahlecker as we have a conversation about grief.

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Clearing Space for God: A Lenten Conversation Series


Friday evenings in Lent, February 16-March 22, in Leffler Living Room: 6:30-8pm.


This Lent, Queer in Christ will host a Conversation series called Clearing Space for God, designed with queer people in mind. Join James Davidson and Michael Seewer each Friday evening in Lent as we explore and share sacred stories that celebrate otherness. We'll dig into these stories and discuss how they and we celebrate our special gifts as queer people, and reflect on how we move forward in the process of clearing space for God in our daily lives. This series is being planned as an in-person offering in Leffler Living Room, but please let us know if you would prefer to join remotely so we can accommodate such requests. Interested in joining these conversations? Contact Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org).

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New Queer in Christ Writing Group Forming


After completing a 4-week Advent writing program, a group of people are looking to form a continuing writing group. We will be meeting later in the month to discuss/discern what this new writing group might look like. Are you interested in writing? Are you looking for support and ideas from others in your writing? Do you like to share your writing with others? If so, you might enjoy joining us! For more information about this newly forming writing group, contact Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org).

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Saint Mark’s Cathedral acknowledges that we gather on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People, who are still here, and we honor with gratitude the land itself and the life of all the Coast Salish tribes. [Learn more]

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