diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4aa0e1ac..80d685f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 ## Unreleased
 
 - [#1358](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1358): Expose a subset of java.lang.ref to enable hooking into the destruction/GC of objects
+- [#1364](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1364): Be tolerant of unknown tags in `bb.edn`
 
 ## 0.9.162 (2022-09-04)
 
diff --git a/sci b/sci
index d0968cd7..22095a3a 160000
--- a/sci
+++ b/sci
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d0968cd7b3607b6106f81beb154806b450ddaf3e
+Subproject commit 22095a3a741eef0ce6bb3efacad54f3f5bd24af8
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 0c0dda6c..e089b0f3 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -1040,8 +1040,8 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
                  (and (= minor-current minor-min)
                       (>= patch-current patch-min)))))))
 
-(defn load-edn [string]
-  (try (edn/read-string string)
+(defn load-bb-edn [string]
+  (try (edn/read-string {:default tagged-literal} string)
        (catch java.lang.RuntimeException e
          (if (re-find #"No dispatch macro for: \"" (.getMessage e))
            (throw (ex-info "Invalid regex literal found in EDN config, use re-pattern instead" {}))
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
         bb-edn (when bb-edn-file
                  (System/setProperty "babashka.config" bb-edn-file)
                  (let [raw-string (slurp bb-edn-file)
-                       edn (load-edn raw-string)
+                       edn (load-bb-edn raw-string)
                        edn (assoc edn
                                   :raw raw-string
                                   :file bb-edn-file)
diff --git a/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj b/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
index 30a9bac2..589d72b7 100644
--- a/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
@@ -445,3 +445,9 @@ even more stuff here\"
     (pr-str '{:paths ["test-resources"]
               :pods {pod/test-pod {:path "test-resources/pod"}}})
     (is (= "42\n" (test-utils/bb nil "-m" "pod-tests.local")))))
+
+(deftest tag-test
+  (test-utils/with-config
+    "{:deps {}
+      :aliases {:foo {:env-vars {:dude #env \"DUDE\"}}}}"
+    (is (= 6 (bb "-e" "(+ 1 2 3)")))))