Outside the Lines
Excerpts
At the Salt Collective
At the Christian Century
At Faith and Leadership
Queerness opens us to a more thoughtful and meaningful perspective, a willingness to see the possibility in what is outside all our conventions and categories: all the different seasons and struggles, abilities, multiplicities, and convictions of this life. It will change everything you know about God, faith, and love.
Conversations
With Winnie Varghese and Azariah France-Williams at (G)race
With Dan White Hodge at Profane Faith
With Damon Garcia at Everyone is Talking about God
With Kevin Garcia at A Tiny Revolution
With Mike McHargue at Ask Science Mike
With the Twisted Sisterds
With Broderick Greer at Mile High Theology Part 1 and Part 2
With Cindy Wang Brandt at Parenting Forward
With Bitch Media’s Soleil Ho at Popaganda
With Matthias Roberts at Queerology
With Anna Woofenden/Sam Chamelin at Food and Faith
With Ken Fong at Asian America
“I needed Outside the Lines more than I knew. This book made me face so many assumptions about God, others, and myself that I was unaware of. This is a book that offers insight and clarity around queerness, around faith, and around what it means to be human. I can’t recommend it enough.”
—Mike McHargue, co-founder of The Liturgists and author of Finding God in the Waves and You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass)
Reviews
Julie Rodgers, writer, speaker, and advocate for LGBTQ Christians
“In this moving celebration of queerness, Mihee Kim-Kort casts a vision for the church to become a place of generosity, hospitality, and expansive love. Her reflections on theology and identity help us imagine a church where every person—with all their questions, quirks, and insecurities—is affirmed as a gift. With vulnerability and compassion, Mihee welcomes us into a faith that is vibrant and liberating—a faith where we can exhale and find rest. Outside the Lines gives me hope for who we can become.”
Jeff Chu, author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?
“Mihee Kim-Kort does a beautiful, sacred thing in calling us back to love—love for our bodies, love for one another, but above all, God’s relentless love for us. With grace, elegance, and vulnerability, she weaves together elements of theology, church history, and her own story. With the heart of a pastor and the kindness of a friend, she demystifies queerness, opening up expansive possibilities for a liberated, whole life of faith.”
Diana Butler Bass, author of Grateful: The Transformative Power of Thanks
“Mihee Kim-Kort gifts the world with a powerful, loving, and beautiful vision of an unfamiliar God, a queer God, who breaks through every boundary we humans erect. This book pulses with passion, a vibrant faith, calling every reader to see beyond convention and embrace the radical love of Jesus. Let her words into your heart and you will never be the same.”
Darnell Moore, activist and author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Mihee Kim-Kort’s Outside the Lines is a work of critical importance. She not only theorizes queerness as a site of theological possibility, she also models how to best craft a book whose form is queer—exceeding the boundaries of discipline and style. Outside the Lines is about the specific and expanded forces of love, intimacy, hospitality, pleasure, grace and the Divine. And she expertly—with immense beauty and care—blends the personal, the political, and the theological in a way that models pastoral care and scholarly inquiry. Mihee wrote a book I wish I had access to as an inquisitive seminarian.
Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of Accidental Saints and Shameless
Mihee Kim-Kort’s work is as personal as her own skin. She sees a thing, sees a body, sees a way of being and calls it by a name, queer. What was once a term of insult is now an honorary, a benediction, a name. In a time of “othering”, Mihee’s voice insists on naming; warmly, fiercely, pastorally.
Brian D. McLaren, author of A Generous Orthodoxy and Seeking Aliveness
“As someone raised in traditional Christian culture regarding sexuality, I applaud Mihee Kim-Kort’s new book, Outside the Lines. It invites us all, whatever our sexual self-understanding, to ponder afresh the wonder of what it means to be embodied humans with attractions and desires. It presents queerness as a needed theological viewpoint with unique gifts to offer. And beyond that, this book is beautifully, clearly, courageously written.”