Queer Spirit
Monthly on zoom
7pm - 8pm ET
A collective offering for expansive possibility from Rev. Micah Bucey and Community Minister Elæ Moss Benedetto
THIS MONTH’S QUEER SPIRIT @ JUDSON | QUEERING CONDEMNATION | Monday, 3/16 @7pm on Zoom
March has come in with its layered set of demands — or invitations, depending on how we’re willing to receive them. People of faith are moving through Ramadan and Lent at the same time this year, while Holi’s bright pop of color just teased at the coming exhale of Spring… though even that festival centers Prahlad’s protection amid his refusal to worship a tyrant. We’re headed toward Passover, too — the root of the Paschal full moon — a reminder from these overlapping lunisolar calendars that we’re never far from the rhythms of earth and the bodies to which we are both subject and in awe.
Lent began by reminding Christians we come from dust and return to it, but across traditions right now humans are committed to profound moral introspection; examing our deservedness for the blessing of “Spring,” both storied and actual. In 2026, our festivals press up against one another in ways that aren’t tidy but feel true to the season: early renewal, yes, but also friction — with both faith and rage midwifing collective rebirth.
These rhythms aren’t neutral. As the equinox approaches, reckoning with accountability and restraint, we seek to cast out what cannot cross into the new cycle. Questions of forgiveness and condemnation stretch beyond the individual into a ritualized, compassionate assessment of what must move so growth and liberation can emerge.
So this month we’re in conversation with condemnation — not as an abstract theological category but as something more slippery: how we decide who is already lost, where we inherit structures of dismissal without noticing, how condemnation travels in relationships, institutions, movements, and in the private corners of how we speak to ourselves.
Queering, here, isn’t a slogan but a method: pausing in the middle of the story, looking at it together with curiosity and grace. A space made sacred because we say so — and because you show up.