Overview
- A clip of a March 21 sermon by Rev. Flourish Klink at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine went viral after it was reposted on social media, showing Klink say God is nonbinary and suggest Jesus may have “transitioned” after the Resurrection.
- The post drew millions of views on X and received a Community Note citing Luke 1:30–31 to contest Klink’s framing that Mary ‘assigned’ Jesus a gender.
- Klink, who identifies as nonbinary and transgender and serves as an assistant priest at Christ & St. Stephen’s, framed the idea as a speculative theological interpretation and said “I don’t know for sure; I wasn’t there.”
- Conservative religious commentators and right-leaning outlets denounced the remarks as heretical or blasphemous, while reporting shows no widely reported formal disciplinary action from Episcopal authorities as of late September.
- The episode has sharpened debates inside the Episcopal Church over LGBTQ inclusion and has been linked in coverage to earlier political comments about God’s gender, signaling the issue could fuel further public and political scrutiny of clergy speech.