Queer Sacred Music in the Time of COVID-19

Amanda Udis-Kessler is a music-creation fountain whose recent project is QueerSacredMusic.com, 60-plus songs beginning with sacred music relative to LGBTQ concerns, but enriched by the spiritual experiences relative to the arrival of COVID-19 and the nationwide uprising against racism and other injustices. Amanda's theology is open, accepting, and rooted in a universal love, and is enriched by the training and talents of her Ph.D. in Sociology, her time in seminary, and her wide and deep lyrical and musical creativity. Raised as a secular Jew, her never-ending spiritual pilgrimage has included sojourns and enrichment with the UU, Quakers, UCC, Buddhism, Bahá'í, and much more.

Past/current religious/spiritual influences:
Buddhism, Jewish, Quaker, UCC - United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist

All songs are written by Amanda Udis-Kessler, and included in her QueerSacredMusic.com collection, and performed by those noted below:
Church is the Way We Live - performed by Phoebe Lostroh
Jesus the Essential Worker - performed by David Heitler-Klevans Two of a Kind
Everything Remains - performed by Ken Janzen, music director of the Center for Spiritual Living
Just Such a Time as This - performed by Phoebe Lostroh
We Are Gathered - lyrics by Amanda Udis-Kessler, music is Nettleton/Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, performed by Ken Janzen, music director of the Center for Spiritual Living
All that We Need - performed by Phoebe Lostroh
Deliver Us to Evil - performed by Phoebe Lostroh
We Will Rest - performed by Ken Janzen, music director of the Center for Spiritual Living
Find Your Music - performed by Ken Janzen, music director of the Center for Spiritual Living