FAQs

What do you mean you protect and affirm LGBTQIA+ people?

People of all identities are celebrated as beloved babes of God here. Our baptismal covenant [aka: our core belief statement] asks this question which we readily reaffirm regularly:

Celebrant Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your
neighbor as yourself?

People I will, with God's help.

Celebrant Will you strive for justice and peace among all people,
and respect the dignity of every human being?

People I will, with God's help.


Therefore, Jubilee is a congregation that not only affirms the inherent dignity and worth of every human being, and we particularly celebrate and cherish LGBTQIA+ people as core to the Body of Christ as part of our restorative justice work. We can’t be the Body of Christ without all people, and this means folks of all sexual and gender identities, races, ethnicities, socio-economic statuses, abilities, nationalities, and stories are welcomed and wanted here.

In fact, our safeguarding protocols in the Diocese of Texas (our parent body) explicitly prohibit hate speech and protect the LGBTQIA+ community from discrimination at every level of our church leadership, fellowship, and community.

Is everyone LGBTQIA+ at Jubilee?

Everyone is genuinely welcome here, and we cherish our community being full of people of all gender and sexual identities - including allies and folks learning how to be allies. We take a lot of pride in being many folks’ first affirming church, and we know that means we are all going to be learning as we go - with a commitment to learning by love.

We also are a space where folks are free to ask questions more broadly, because we know there’s a lot more to the life of faith than your gender or sexuality identity. So we try to focus on “the next chapter” - meaning, as we are an out-loud-and-proud queer affirming space, let’s learn together about being faithful in the modern world; let’s deconstruct and reconstruct theologically, practice disagreeing grace-fully and gracefully, and lean into what it means to be beloved community.