Queer Sacred Music

As another way to work through the materials on this website, I'm listing pieces by musical style, along with the subpage where their score and/or recording can be found. Rounds are not included in the below list, nor are Taize-style pieces and single-verse/refrain pieces.

Folk/Country Music
Better Than We Found It (Other Songs)
The Blessings of the Year (Other Songs)
Bringing in the Harvest (Other Songs)
Christmas Star (Church Season Music)
The Difference (Justice Music)
Find Your Music (Other Songs)
Godspeed (Other Songs)
Grace (Other Songs)
I Will Plant Some Flowers (Other Songs)
Jesus the Essential Worker (Justice Music)
Love's Wonder (Worship Music #2)
We Give Thanks in Hard Times (Other Songs)
Welcome to the Manger (Church Season Music)

Gospel Music
The Church Where Love Lives (Other Worship Music #1)
For a Faith (Other Worship Music #1)
From Our Abundance We Give (Other Worship Music #1)
Rooted and Grounded in Love (Other Worship Music #2)
Spirit of Love (Church Season Music, Other Worship Music #2)
We Are Setting the Rainbow Table (Communion Hymns, LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
What a Wondrous Day (Other Worship Music #2)

Hymn Texts with Traditional Music
All Things in Their Season (St. Denio; Other Worship Music #1)
America the Beautiful: A Vison (Materna; Justice Music)
At the Feeding of the Many (Beach Spring; Other Worship Music #1)
At the Table of the Holy (Beach Spring; Other Worship Music #1)
Blest are You, the Poor in Spirit (Hyfrydol; Other Worship Music #1)
Church is More than Just a Building (Hyfrydol; Other Worship Music #1)
Comfort, Comfort (Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring Chorale; Other Worship Music #1)
Doxology (Old Hundredth; Other Worship Music #1)
For Freedom We Have Been Set Free (Ellacombe; Other Worship Music #1)
For the Harm that We Have Caused: A Confessional Hymn (Dix; Other Worship Music #1)
For the Weaving of Our Lives (Dix; Other Worship Music #1)
The Fruit of the Spirit is Wondrous to Know (St. Denio; Other Worship Music #1)
Fully Holy, Fully Human (Hymn to Joy; Other Worship Music #1)
God Abundant, God of Wonder (The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Justice Music)
God is Known (Nettleton; Church Season Music)
God of All, We Boldly Go (Dix; Other Worship Music #1)
God of Being and Becoming (Nettleton; Other Worship Music #1)
God Speaks Today (Ar Hyd Y Nos; Other Worship Music #1)
God Who Freely Chose Unfreedom (Hyfrydol; Other Worship Music #1)
Grant Us Grace, Oh, Tender Spirit (Beecher; Other Worship Music #1)
Holy Dreamer, Joyful Healer (Hymn to Joy; Other Worship Music #1)
How Can We Sing (Finlandia; Other Worship Music #1)
If Good Could Lose to Evil (Passion Chorale; Other Worship Music #1)
In a Time of Trouble (Cranham; Church Season Music)
In Our Self-Protection (Cranham; Other Worship Music #1)
In Sorrow We Remember (Bach Passion Chorale suggested; available on All Scores page)
The Kin-dom of God is the Queerest of Nations (Kremser; LGBTQIA+ Music #1; version with original music available on the All Scores and All Recordings pages)
Little Baby, Soon to Join Us (Hyfrydol; Other Songs)
Love Your Neighbor - No Exceptions (Hymn to Joy; Other Worship Music #2)
My Life Flows on in Endless Song: updated lyrics (How Can I Keep from Singing; Other Worship Music #2)
O Holy Solidarity (St. Louis; Church Season Music)
Open Hearts and Open Houses (Hymn to Joy; Other Worship Music #2)
Persistent Love, Enduring Hope (Amazing Grace; Other Worship Music #2)
Rebuilding Starts with Weeping (Bach Passion Chorale suggested; Justice Music)
Resistance Song (Kingsfold; Church Season Music)
Say Their Names: A Trans Day of Remembrance Hymn Text (Stand by Me; LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
Seeds of God's Garden (Bunessan; Other Worship Music #2)
Seek Justice; Love Kindness A Sending-Out Hymn (St. Denio; Other Worship Music #2)
Sing the World that God Imagines (Hymn to Joy; Other Worship Music #2)
Teacher Jesus, Source of Knowledge (Hyfrydol; Other Worship Music #2)
Transforming Love that Makes Us New (Ellacombe; Other Worship Music #2)
We Are Gathered (Nettleton; Other Worship Music #2)
We Belong to One Another (Nettleton; Other Worship Music #2)
We Come with Gifts; We Come in Need (Ellacombe; Other Worship Music #2)
When We Come to Disagree (St. George's Windsor; Other Worship Music #2)
When Our Hearts Are Tested (Cranham; Church Season Music)
When We Do Justice (Bunessan; Other Worship Music #2)
With What Shall We Approach You? (Passion Chorale; Other Worship Music #2)
Within God's Great Economy (Ellacombe; Other Worship Music #2)
Word that Blesses, Breaks, and Shares Us (Beecher; Other Worship Music #2)
Worker God Who Built Creation (Hymn to Joy; Justice Music)

European Hymn-Inspired Music
All the Earth Belongs to God (Justice Music)
Bring a Flower (Other Worship Music #1)
Christ, the Cornerstone of Love (Other Worship Music #1)
Church is the Way We Live (Other Worship Music #1)
The Day We Are Given (Other Worship Music #1)
Days of Rage and Days of Hope: A Pride Hymn (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
Deliver Us to Evil (Justice Music)
Faith of Metaphor and Mystery (Other Worship Music #1)
Fearfully, Wonderfully Made (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
God, the Soaring Eagle (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
History and Mystery (Other Worship Music #1)
Holy Boldness, Move Our Spirits (Justice Music)
If the Prophets Lived Today (Justice Music)
Jesus Called Lazarus (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
Love the Stranger (Other Worship Music #2)
The Manger is Stranger (Church Season Music)
Now, As You Leave This Assembly of Lovers (Other Worship Music #2)
Oh, Jesus Had Two Fathers (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
Once Jesus Loved a Rich Man (Justice Music)
Proclaim the Acceptable Year of the Lord (Justice Music)
Queerly Beloved (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
Shake the Dust off Your Sandals (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
Testament to Love (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
Today, We Come with Heavy Hearts (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
Two Processions (Church Season Music)
We Labor for the Day (Church Season Music)
We Will Not Curse what God Has Blessed (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
When Christmas Brings More Pain than Joy (Church Season Music)
When Jesus Set His Table (Communion Hymns)

Pop Music
Above All Else: A Prayer (Other Worship Music #1)
All of Us Are Loved (Other Worship Music #1)
All of Who I Am (Other Songs)
All that We Need (Other Songs)
Always Surprise Me (Other Songs)
As You Go on Your Way (Other Worship Music #1)
Brave Spirit, Make Us Brave (Other Worship Music #1)
Call Me by My Name (Other Songs)
Candle of Hope (Church Season Music)
The Creatures We Love (Church Season Music)
The Day that I Die (Other Songs)
Depend on You (Other Worship Music #1)
Do All the Good You Can (Other Worship Music #1)
Every Last One (Other Songs)
Everything Remains (Justice Music)
Equinox (Other Songs)
The Fast that Love Has Chosen (Church Season Music)
A Gift for the Altar (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
God Has a Call on Me (Other Worship Music #1)
The Gospel of My Body (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
Grateful (Other Songs)
Holy One, Gather Us In (Other Worship Music #1)
Hope Waits for Us at Advent (Church Season Music)
I Know the Plans I Have for You (Other Worship Music #1)
If Your Christmas Isn't Merry (Church Season Music)
In the Breaking of the Bread (Communion Hymns)
Just Such a Time as This (Other Worship Music #2)
The Light Comes as a Rainbow (LGBTQIA+ Music #1)
Love Comes to Us at Christmas (Church Season Music)
Love Her before You Judge Her (Other Songs)
Love, When It Seems that You're Far Away (Other Worship Music #2)
Love Will Have the Final Laugh: An Easter Hymn (Church Season Music)
Lover Spirit, Intuition (Other Songs)
A Manger, A Prophet, A Cross (Other Worship Music #2)
May We Speak the Truth (Other Worship Music #2)
A Mile in Your Shoes (Other Songs)
Mother Earth, Beloved Garden (Other Songs)
A Prayer after Jesus (Other Worship Music #2)
Prepare a Way for Love (Other Worship Music #2)
Purify Our Hearts (Other Worship Music #2)
Rejoice (Other Songs)
Rest Now, Rest Easy (Other Songs)
Rise Up in Us (Church Season Music)
Rooted in Fertile Ground (Other Worship Music #2)
So Great a Cloud of Witnesses (Other Worship Music #2)
Speak to Me, Sacred Self (Other Worship Music #2)
Spirit of Community (Other Worship Music #2)
The Spirit Sends Us Out (Church Season Music)
Table of Unity, Bread of Community (Communion Hymns)
Thank You: A Song of Gratitude (Other Worship Music #2)
We Asked for Fish (LGBTQIA+ Music #2)
We Labor in a Garden (Other Worship Music #2)
We Will Go Out in Love (Other Worship Music #2)
We Will Rest (Other Worship Music #2)
When Enough of Us Say No (Justice Music)
Who Is My Neighbor? (Justice Music)
Your Face in Every Face (Other Worship Music #2)

Other Types of Music
A Child is Born: A Christmas Lullaby (Church Season Music; a tender lullaby with classical elements)
Consider the Lilies (Other Songs; a cross between Klezmer and Broadway)
Everyone is Worthy (Other Worship Music #1; a cappella chant, instruments optional, drumming encouraged)
Go Out in Joy! (Other Worship Music #1; contemporary classical)
Hell is a Human Invention (Other Songs; a tango)
Love Had a Dream (Church Season Music; pop meets contemporary classical)
Oh, My Shepherd (Justice Music; contemporary classical)
Walking Each Other Home (Other Worship Music #2; a cappella chant, instruments optional, drumming encouraged)