Visiting Griset Lecturer, Dr. Brian Flanagan - LGBTQ+ Spiritual Narratives as (Un)requited Love LettersQueer people have always been part of religious communities and often deeply profound spiritual thinkers. Their lives are living love letters to the Divine and to their communities that are sometimes received and cherished, and sometimes left unanswered or worse. Dr. Flanagan will argue for using queer spiritual narratives as a crucial source for theological reflection.

Brian Flanagan is Senior Fellow at New Ways Ministry, a Catholic outreach organization that educates and advocates for equity, inclusion, and justice for LGBTQ+ persons, and a Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Justice, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is a Catholic theologian whose research focuses on the nature and mission of the church, and he is the author of Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church.