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Progressive Christian Minister
About Reverend Ken Hays
In 2018, Reverend Ken Hays co-authored the 'Sanctuary Seminary Curriculum', a free, open-source theological framework adopted by over 40 faith-based community centers across the U.S. to train lay leaders in harm-reduction pastoral care for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing family estrangement. His approach merges liberation theology with trauma-informed listening practices, grounded in weekly street-level ministry at a repurposed auto-body shop in East Oakland he transformed into a shared worship and mutual-aid space called The Rust & Grace Collective. He refuses to preach from a pulpit, instead facilitating dialogue around folding tables draped with quilts stitched by formerly incarcerated women in his congregation. His sermons cite bell hooks alongside Gregory of Nyssa, and he’s been subpoenaed twice, not for protest, but to testify as an expert witness on religious exemption claims in housing discrimination cases involving transgender tenants.
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