On Your Knees: The 69-Day Irreverent Devotional is a raw, humorous, and unflinching journey through the Bible, designed for those who have been harmed by traditional religious teachings. Author Transvangelical offers an honest look at familiar-and often forgotten-passages, challenging conventional translations and interpretations to reveal the text as a source of healing and liberation, not weaponized oppression.
This devotional dares to find sex, humor, and a queer-affirming spirituality within the sacred text, dismantling harmful doctrines of "sexual purity," gender inequality, and conformity. From Jesus being intersex to Jacob's potentially queer encounter with God, and even the biblical examples of masturbation and getting high, this devotional invites you to laugh, learn, and let go of the religious baggage you've been carrying.
More than just a book, On Your Knees is an invitation to engage with scripture on your own terms, and to reclaim your life in a way that celebrates your truest self.
Industry Reviews
"On Your Knees is technically a devotional, but of the rare sort that busts the false binary of sacred and profane-breaking it wide open with a grin and a groan, until holiness drips where you least expect it. These pages don't tidy up your prayers; they mess them up in the best way. Prayer here is sweaty and shameless, tangled with longing, shot through with flesh. Kneeling becomes less about submission to respectability and more about surrender to desire, risk, and love fierce enough to bruise.
This is devotion for those who know God is not a sanitized abstraction but a dangerous intimacy, a presence that touches nerve and marrow. Irreverent because it refuses to keep eros locked out of the sanctuary, serious because it knows desire can wreck and redeem us, On Your Knees is a devotional that dares to be dirty and divine at once." - Maki Ashe Pendergast (the Center for Prophetic Imagination)