Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Tamara L. Siuda, PhD, author of the new Weather Magic. Members of the alphabet community (from acronyms representing different sexualities and gender identities in the LGBTQIA+ community) often have to parse relationships with religion in ways people outside our community never encounter. Considerable scholarship and personal writing about the religious experiences of LGBTQIA+ people appears more frequently as our community becomes less hidden and more accepted in public life. While there is sometimes controversy about how to describe religions or deities using today's gender or sexuality terms, especially for religions that predate such