Speaking

I am a dynamic speaker and discussion facilitator, AND i would love to come and engage your campus, classroom, religious group, or community!

Here are a few topics I am prepared to cover and some past speaking engagement. I can always blur and blend topics and add other pieces into them! Whenever I’m invited to speak or work with a group, I tailor my approach to their interests and needs.

I would love to talk to you about Queering the Lectionary, Paul’s letters, Trans and Queer Histories in Early Christianity, and many other topics!

For more information, contact me here. {You can also email info (at) jimmyhoke (dot) com}

If you would like to take one of my online classes on some of these topics, check out my class offerings and options here.

Examples and Recordings of Past Engagements:

• “Queering the Bible”: a four-part seminar I led at Ring Lake Ranch in Wyoming

• “Love Is a Bustling Highway: The Bible and Trans + Queer Witness”: a five-session adult Bible class offered at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ annual Worship and Music Conference in Montreat, NC

• “Liberating Sanctuary”: a five-session interactive seminar that challenged participants to use scripture to find new ways to live into liberation in their faith communities

• “The Word of God: What Does the Bible Really Say?” Presentation for Radical Love: LGBTQ+ Inclusion Theology series at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, WI

• “Ties That Bind: Queer Contributions to a Christian Theology of Relationship” (Adult Education Forum at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, MN)

• “Rise & Repair: A Christian Theological Approach and Call to Action” (Teach-in session as part of Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light’s work on Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice)

• “Queer Theology: Gender and Sexuality Reconsidered” (Conversation with Rev. Brian Ellison of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians for the second part in Opening Doors to Discipleship educational series on Queer Theology)

Book Specific Speaking Topics include:

• Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Decentering Paul Queerly with Affective Critique

• Waking Up Romans 1:18-32: Affective Critique and Queer Wo/men’s Interruptions

• Cruel Faith?: Reading Romans 3-5 with Lauren Berlant

• Homonational Ethics Under God: Romans 13 between U.S. and Roman Imperialisms

• Impulsive Subversions: Reconstructing the Theo-Christologies and Ethics of Queer Wo/men Christ-Followers

Other General Topics:

• Queer wo/men in Early Christianity

• Feminist and Queer Readings of Paul’s Letters

• Material culture and the matters of gender, ethnicity, sexuality

• Paul’s Letter to the Romans

• Paul First Letter to the Thessalonians (especially chs. 4-5)

• Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and the Study of Religion and Sacred Texts

• Politics of History and Why Ancient History Matters

• Asexuality and Religions in Ancient Rome

• Bringing Ancient Greek to Life and the Politics of Translation

Selected Titles of Past Engagements:

• “Decentering Paul’s Letters Queerly”

• “Heroic Journeys and Queer Hospitalities: Odysseys around Paul’s Letters”

• “Unnatural? Enough Already!: Feminism and Queerness Interrupt Paul”

• “Greek Conditionals and Romans 8: How Do Conditions Matter?”