Come and See: An Invitation to a Radical Encounter with Jesus

’God is doing something different. God isn’t
just concerned with the popular and the
powerful, the rich and the important, God
cares about the weird and odd people, the
smelly ones, and the ones no one else trusts.
Not only that: God has a really special mission for them.’

Right from the start of his time on Earth - Jesus chose to hang out with and work with the most unlikely people. As word spread about his amazing choices and teaching, the invitation was offered: Come and See.

So forget what you think you already know and take up the invitation for yourself - to come and see this Jesus.
Grounded in scholarly understandings of Scripture, and opened up in a way that makes sense today, Come and See tackles questions of fairness, justice, inclusion, friendship, doing the right thing, and care for community.

Journey with Shannon T. L. Kearns in 40 different encounters in the Bible. There are reflections, journaling and action prompts that root the Bible teaching into real life - so ’Come and See’ how Jesus’ message is just as revolutionary, exciting and relevant today.

A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. His book In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey With Scripture is published Eerdmaan’s books. No One Taught Me How To Be A Man: What a Trans Man’s Experience Reveals About Masculinity is published by Broadleaf Books.

Shannon is a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His work there with Brian G. Murphy has reached more than a million people all over the world through videos, articles, and online courses and community. They have the longest running LBGTQ+ Spirituality podcast in the world.

Shannon is a Humanitas New Voices Fellow for 2022 and was a recipient of the Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21 and he was a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019 (in playwriting) and 2022 (in screenwriting) and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. He is a sought after speaker on transgender issues and religion as well as a skilled facilitator of a variety of workshops. Shannon’s plays include Laughing, Flexing, Dying, Stories We Tell At the End of the World, Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. Shannon’s television pilots include: The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. Selected recognition: Winner of the ScreenCraft Pitch competition, finalist for Bull City Film Festival for his pilot Transformed, a playwright in residence at the Inge House, Seven Devils’ Playwright Conference, Great Plains Theatre Commons, a semi-finalist for the O’Neill, and a finalist for the Blue Ink playwriting award.