In our cultural moment, the relationship between religion and sexuality is fraught for a lot of people. In public and political discourse, even the terms religion and sexuality suggest conflict, pain and difficulty. But is that the end of the road? Well not always, in lived experience.

Karl Hand is a community support worker, and the pastor of Crave MCC in Sydney – a congregation affiliated with perhaps the oldest international network of queer-affirming Christian churches.

AJ Jensen is cofounder of Queers Be With You, which helps Churches and Christian organisations to be more LGBTIQ inclusive.