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Artifacts

Artifacts created while working on my doctorate of ministry, TRANSitions, project.

Artifacts:

  • Vlogs, TransPreaacher, June 2023-Current, a series of video reflections on gender and faith published across social media platforms, https://www.instagram.com/transpreacher/
  • Academic Paper, “Transition Your Presence: Living as a Prophetic Witness in a Digital World,” August 3, 2024 https://transpreacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/social-media-final.pdf
  • Video, “Intentional About Faith,” Mozaic Ohio, July 26, 2024. https://transpreacher.com/2024/07/27/intentional-about-faith/ Mozaic Ohio, an LGBT+ community center in Columbus, Ohio, interviewed me to talk about the connections between gender diversity and faith.
  • Academic Paper, “Transition Your Justice Work: Looking Through Shadowed Eyes,” July 7, 2024 https://transpreacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/justice-final.pdf This paper explores how to queer justice work, bringing an intersectional praxis. This paper is the foundation for the “TRANSition Your Justice Work” section of this project.
  • Speech, “Interfaith Prayer Service,” Stonewall Columbus, June 11, 2024. https://transpreacher.com/2024/06/12/interfaith-prayer-service/ Speech I gave at Stonewall Columbus, Central Ohio’s largest LGBT+ center, for their first Interfaith Prayer service. This speech focuses on the importance of showing up as our authentic selves, especially in uncomfortable spaces, and ends with a rewritten queer version of the Sermon on the Mount.
  • Academic Paper, “Transition Your Preaching: Proclaiming The Good News Through Painted Lips,” June 3, 2024, https://transpreacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/preaching-with-painted-lips-final-paper.pdf  This paper explores the unique voice that transgender people bring to preaching, issues faced by transgender preachers, and the development of a transgender hermeneutic. This paper served as the foundation for the “Transition Your Preaching” section of this project.
  • Commentary, “On toward Christian perfection after General Conference,” UMNews, May 24, 2024, https://www.umnews.org/en/news/on-toward-christian-perfection-after-general-conference. United Methodist News invited me to offer a commentary on the significance of General Conference removing restrictions on LGBTQ+ people  from a transgender clergy perspective.
  • Article, “United Methodists repeal longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy,” NBC News,  May 1, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/united-methodists-repeal-longstanding-ban-lgbtq-clergy-rcna150220 This article describes the removal of restrictions on LGBT+ clergy in the United Methodist Church. Moreover, the headline photograph of me crying got picked up and published around in the world by news sources including CNN and the Wall Street Journal. This resulted in unprecedented levels of support and backlash.
  • Testimony, “Testimony to ODH against proposed healthcare rules,” TransPreacher, March 21, 2024. https://transpreacher.com/2024/03/21/testimony-to-odh-against-proposed-healthcare-rules/ Testimony I presented to the Ohio Department of Health in regards to rules proposed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine that would restrict transgender healthcare.
  • Speech, “Nex Benedict Vigil,” TransPreacher, February 24, 2024. https://transpreacher.com/2024/02/24/nex-benedict-vigil/ This speech was given as the closing comments at a vigil outside the Ohio Statehouse honoring the life of Nex Benedict, a 16 year old non-binary student who committed suicide after being bullied for their gender.
  • Video, “Stand with Trans People,” NV Gay, January 21, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oc2Z0L8fXE After the Ohio Senate overrode the veto of Governor Mike DeWine, removing access to healthcare for transgender youth in Ohio, NV Gay made this video with me and a dozen other transgender leaders and allies standing together.
  • Sermon, “The Waiting,” Pacific School of Religion. December 13, 2023. https://youtu.be/HmvXctrxBrE  This sermon was preached for Pacific School of Religion on December 13, 2023. It is a modern, dramatic retelling of the Christmas story from the perspective of Joseph, cast as “Jo”–a transgender woman. This illustrates the potential of using a transgender hermeneutic.
  • Video, “BQIC Black Trans Lives Matters Rally,” December 3, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-oaLhgjuE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftranspreacher.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY Columbus, Ohio’s Black Queer Intersectional Collective invited me to speak at their 2023 Black Trans Lives Matters Rally. I spoke about the imago Dei in all people, especially in BIPOC. I said in this speech, “God looks like a Black transgender woman.” After this rally we marched and closed down High Street to bring light to the murder of Black, transgender people.
  • Video, “Stonewall Columbus 2023 Donald R. Hallman LGBTQ Veterans Recognition: Joelle Henneman,” Nov 28, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRxpqRb3vY In November 2023, I was recognized by Stonewall Columbus with an LGBTQ veterans recognition award. This video, which describes my experiences as a queer person in the military was shown during the recognition ceremony.
  • Podcast, “The Christian Bear: Where Are They Now,” August 22, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYt2PUtCYsw&t=4s On this podcast I was interviewed by Dr. Ben Huelskamp, the Executive Director of LoveBoldly, about how gender identity and expression impacts faith development.
  • Webpage Post, Faith in Public Life, June 28, 2023, https://www.faithinpubliclife.org/profiles/pride2023/ Faith in Public Life asked me to write a context for their video celebrating LGBTQ+ faith leaders from across the United States. In this piece I focus on “God as a Troublemaker”—God has caused trouble in our lives as queer folk so that we can go and trouble the world.
  • Sermon, “We’ve Never Done It This Way Before,” June 17, 2023, https://transpreacher.com/2023/06/17/weve-never-done-it-this-way-before/ Sermon preached at Pride Worship, June 16, 2023, at Broad Street United Methodist Church. This was the first in-person Reconciling Ministry pride worship service since COVID and the first time I publicly preached outside my own church since fully coming out.
  •  Video, “Joseph’s Dress,” Transmission Ministry Collective, May 31, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5kqcO9pcoU&t=1s Austen Hartke, Executive Director of Transmission Ministry Collective invited me to help lead this Bible Study of Genesis 37, bringing a transgender hermeneutic to the story of Joseph’s coat.
  • Speech, “Faith and Spirituality,” May 16, 2023, https://transpreacher.com/2023/05/16/faith-and-spirituality/ I gave this speech at the Ohio Statehouse as part of a “Faith and Spirituality Day” designed to raise awareness of the giftedness of LGBTQ+ people in the face of proposed anti-transgender legislation.
  • Podcast, “Creating Space,” March 31, 2023, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/creating-space-joelle-henneman–53160415?utm_medium=app&utm_source=widget&utm_campaign=episode-title I was interviewed for this podcast published on Transgender Day of Visibility. In this interview I share my journey in ministry, growing the circle of God’s love to include people on the margins and me.
  • Sermon, “New Beginnings,” January 1, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1SogFTpUM. My coming out sermon at the United Methodist Church for All People. In this sermon I reflect on the Acts 8 baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch as an example of God’s inclusion of a Black, gender diverse person and of me.
  • Blog post, “Psalm 13 TRANSlation in honor of Club Q,” November 21, 2022, https://transpreacher.com/2022/11/21/psalm-13-translation-in-honor-of-club-q/ Following the mass shooting at Club Q I reinterpreted Psalm 13 asking the question, “How long, O Lord,” in the continual face of violence against LGBTQ+ people. I read this psalm at several protests and rallies. This illustrates the  use of a transgender hermeneutic to interpret scripture.