The Rev. Dr. Cody Sanders, PhD, is the Pride @ Phillips 2025 Keynote Speaker.
Sanders is a leader in the area of LGBTQIA+ spiritual care, writing and speaking frequently on the subject in churches and academic settings. He is a practitioner of narrative theories of pastoral care and counseling, training clergy, students, and lay leaders in these skills of caregiving.
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A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth Cody J. Sanders Westminster John Knox Press, 2017 |
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Christianity, LGBTQ Suicide, and the Souls of Queer Folk Cody J. Sanders Lexington Books, 2020 |
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Queer Lessons for Churches on the Straight and Narrow: What All Christians Can Learn from LGBTQ Lives Cody J. Sanders Faithlab, 2013 Fall 2025 Reserves |
Kristin Hoover Gentry (she/they) is a Shilombish Tuklo (Two Spirit) Choctaw artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Oklahoma City. They are the Pride @ Phillips 2025 Artist.
An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, they are deeply committed to preserving and revitalizing Southeastern tribal culture through their multidisciplinary creative work.
As a Shilombish Tuklo (Two Spirit) artist, Kristin’s work reflects both personal and collective identities, often incorporating traditional Choctaw patterns, ancestral seeds, Moundbuilder iconography, and layered symbolism.
Their practice includes relief and monotype printmaking, painting, graphic arts, photography, clothing and jewelry design, blending symmetrical structures with organic elements to express the interconnectedness of Indigenous life, land, and spirit.
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Qwo-Li Driskill Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory The University of Arizona Press, 2016 |
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Mark Rifkin The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination University of Minnesota Press, 2012 |
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Joshua M. Shawnee Unearthing Two Spirit and Indigiqueer Medicine: An Oral History Project Phillips Theological Seminary, 2022 |
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Gregory D. Smithers Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, & Sovereignty in Native America Beacon Press, 2022 |
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Sa'ed Atshan Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique Stanford University Press, 2020 |
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Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele Queer: A Graphic History Icon Books Ltd, 2016 |
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Christina Beardsley and Michelle O'Brien This Is My Body: Hearing the Theology of Transgender Christians Longman & Todd LTD, 2016 |
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Darius Bost Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence University of Chicago Press, 2018 |
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Marla Brettschneider Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century State University of New York Press, 2024 |
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Marie Cartier Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall Routledge, 2014 |
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Mary Collins and Donald Collins At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces Beacon Press, 2017 |
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Cynthia Vacca Davis Intersexion: A Story of Faith, Identity, and Authenticity Lake Drive Books, 2022 |
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Miguel H. Díaz Queer God de Amor Fordham Univ Press, 2022 |
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Elizabeth M. Edman Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity Beacon Press, 2016 |
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Eli Erlick Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 Beacon Press, 2025 |
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Bronwyn Fielder and Douglas Ezzy Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Christians: Queer Christians, Authentic Selves Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 |
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Peggy Gillespie Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families Skinner House Books, 2023 |
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Mitchell Gold and Mindy Drucker Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America Greenleaf Book Group, 2008 |
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Ron Goldberg Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Fordham Univ Press, 2022 |
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Colby Gordon Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature University of Chicago Press, 2024 |
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Austen Hartke Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians Westminster John Knox Press, 2018 |
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Lisa Isherwood and Marcella Althaus-Reid Trans/Formations SCM Press, 2009 |
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E. Patrick Johnson Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South University of North Carolina Press, 2012 |
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Shannon T.L. Kearns In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey with Scripture William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022 |
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Brett Krutzsch Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics Oxford University Press, 2019 |
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Susan Kuklin Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out Candlewick Press, 2014 |
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Joseph A. Marchal, Melissa Harl Sellew, and Katy E. Valentine Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture Westminster John Knox Press, 2025 |
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John Marnell Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration Wits University Press, 2021 |
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J. Mase III & Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi The Black Trans Prayer Book Lulu.com, 2020 |
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Monique Moultrie Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership Duke University Press, 2023 |
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Brooke N. Petersen Religious Trauma: Queer Stories in Estrangement and Return Lexington Books, 2022 |
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Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation Ten Speed Press, 2019 |
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Brandan Robertson Queer & Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025 |
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Hugh Ryan The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison Bold Type Books, 2022 |
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Isaac B. Sharp The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians - and the Movement That Pushed Them Out William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023 |
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Kathleen T. Talvacchia Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms New York University Press, 2015 |
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Katrina Daly Thompson Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America New York University Press, 2023 |
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Adriaan van Klinken Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa Penn State Press, 2019 |