With hearts bursting with both gratitude and grief, we must share the news that at the end of the year, enfleshed will begin a closing process due to a lack of sustainable funding.

From the beginning, we set out to make enfleshed a collective that works differently. In collaboration, rather than competition. In solidarity, rather than siloed identities. In defiance of capitalism’s crushing demands, deadly patterns, and barriers to resourcing people and movements, spirits and bodies. In pursuit of only the projects that lure us, and lure us toward freedom, regardless of profitability. We are so proud of what we have been able to create together out of these commitments and the glorious collaborations they enabled.

We are, of course, heartbroken to lose this container for our creative work, to cease enfleshed’s contributions in this particular time, and to surrender this container of collective creativity. And yet, we are buoyed by our bone-deep knowing that what we have created together will live on, dispersed as seeds for future projects and transformative wisdom that can continue to resource our shared work. Our longing to spiritually resource the labor of collective liberation continues. Our desire to enflesh possibilities for flourishing, together, continues. New containers, ancient wisdoms. Enduring connections, new forms. 

It has been such a privilege to create, collaborate, and dream with you all and our team, for these last eight years. Your generous offerings of time, energy, money, connection, talent, words, and wisdom has made enfleshed possible. Together, we have created spaces, encounters, and resources that remind us to keep investing in and reaching with moral clarity, solidarity, and imagination toward building the communities we need and desire. 

We do look forward to sharing one final forthcoming digital resource before the end of the year titled “speak easy: queer blessings for co-creating a wider we.”

Please see the FAQ below for more information about our plans for closing.

Sincerely,
enfleshed

What support does enfleshed need right now?

[update – we have what we need, thank you!] organizationally: Ongoing financial support by way of donations still mean a great deal to us! They will help us ensure all writers, contributors, and co-directors are paid through the remainder of their contributions. Additionally, in order to keep all our resources online for the indefinite future, we have a number of annual fees that must be covered including a hefty web hosting cost. Your ongoing support will ensure that the works of enfleshed continues to be there for those who need and desire them. We depend on your support entirely for long-term presence of archives.

individually: As plans develop for each of us, we’ll be sharing ways to stay in touch. If you’re not already on the enfleshed email newsletter list, sign-up now here (or write m at in**@*******ed.com) to get linked with our future endeavors.

I love enfleshed and am so sad it’s closing. Is there a space to process that?

We feel you! Moving through the grief of this particular ending is a whole journey. We hope to dedicate the rest of the year to ending well together, including a virtual gathering on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 4PT / 5 MT / 6CT / 7ET. We hope you’ll join us for a space of sharing grief and gratitude. You can register for the zoom link here.

What’s ending and when?

• New issues of Liturgy that Matters will continue through Advent. Our final issue will be the December 21, 2025 issue. Beginning in January, the entire collection of Liturgy that Matters will no longer be subscription based and will be a free resource as long as we have funds to maintain the website presence.
• Each of the co-directors will issue a final written column in November.
• The co-directors will be recording a final podcast reflecting on enfleshed to be released in December.
• Our social media presence will continue through 2025 and then remain primarily as an archive with some updates about our remaining print inventory.
• AND!! We will be releasing a final digital publication before the end of the year, so stay tuned for “speak easy: queer blessings for co-creating a wider we.”

Can you say more about why enfleshed is closing?

enfleshed began as a dream, a longing, a possibility. Imagined by friends and co-conspirators, sharing a delicious meal and delightful dreaming about how to do public theological work at the intersections of liberation and contemplation, and how to disrupt the forces of dominance and supremacy so often fueled by Christianity’s nationalist, colonial, and white forms. We craved a space to practice a different kind of spirituality: political, and poetic. Fierce, and tender. Free from rigid expectations of orthodoxy or respectability. Transformative work, for the sake of justice, liberation, and delight.

Even as we were dreaming enfleshed into reality, we have strived to bring into alignment and put into practice the full breadth of our values and commitments. This has shaped who we are, as well as what we do, and how; it has also meant that our financial sustainability has always been a challenge. Our story has been one of very limited financial resources, as well as deep passion, fierce care, and abiding love. We know there’s no current escape from capitalism’s forces – but there are creative choices we can all make about what we prioritize. 

Our donors, subscribers, and supporters have enabled us to be. Grants from the Oasis Ministry, the Carpenter Foundation, Borealis, H.C. Gemmer, the Trans Justice Funding Project, and others have enabled us to create our major projects and prioritize paying our contributors and minimizing sale costs, keeping our resources accessible. It has always been a challenge to make ends meet without radically shifting our values or our approach to where our time and energy go. After stretching our financial resources in every way possible for the last two years, we have simply run out of the money necessary to continue. Our infrastructure has grown significantly enough that even sustaining enfleshed as a volunteer project is unfeasible.

We celebrate with pride what we’ve been able to do together and to create for eight years, without capitulating to greed, exploitation, competition, or compromising the forms or shape of love the world desperately needs. We remain convicted that experimental and risky endeavors that prioritize collective flourishing over organizational sustainability are critical to finding our way together.