Category: Video
No More Special Pleading: How Opening Up to LGBTQ+ Reality Flows Organically from Basic Christianity
At St Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, US, James Alison presented a project he’s been working on for several years—a book, provisionally titled You Can… If You Want To, to be published in 2025, which aims to empower Christians to move on, in good faith, regarding LGBTQ+ issues. The narrative that Christianity itself demands the condemnation of LGBTQ+ lives…
Catholicity, Sacrifice, and Shame: Subverting Polarization in Our Contemporary Ecclesial and Political Cultures
How do we, who know that God’s glory showed itself among us by being lifted up in shame, find the grace to live with our shame uncovered such that we are not inclined to shame others?
Homilies (Year A)
n 2020, James started Praying Eucharistically, a project exploring the ways of worshipping and Christian living in the Covid lockdown. For this project, he provides the appropriate liturgical texts for people celebrating at home and offers Gospel readings and homilies in video format for Sundays and the main festivities of the liturgical year.
What does radical inclusion really mean for a modern synodal Church
The James Alison Forum, What does radical inclusion really mean for a modern synodal Church, on 27 September 2023 was organised by the Catalyst for Renewal in St Aloysius’ College Kirribilli, Sydney. It was moderated by Geraldine Doogue and assisted by Finn Stannard. The word of the night was “talkability”. If an idea has talkability the issue can be explored,…
On Natural Law and Conscience
This article was published by Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic resource On the most recent Outspoken conversation, the Catholic priest, theologian and writer James Alison offered a master class on the theology of natural law and conscience, two topics of interest to all Catholics, but especially for LGBTQ Catholics, who often find themselves confronting arguments that use…
Homily for Palm Sunday
In 2020, James Alison started a project exploring the ways of worshipping and Christian living in the Covid-related lockdown. For this project, he records Gospel readings and homilies for Sundays and main festivities of the liturgical year.
Synodality and Truthfulness: The Workings of a Sideways God
Webinar lecture in the “What Next?” series for Aquinas Center, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA given on Wed 24 August 2022.
YouTube playlist
YouTube playlist of James Alison’s materials made available by various organisations, projects and people.
Conversation at St Alban’s Church (DC, USA)
A conversation led by Rev Leslie Chadwick at St Alban’s Episcopal Church (DC, USA) that followed James’ talk, Choosing Judgment or Joy: Helping People of Faith Move from Anger to Love.