The importance of Burke’s Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch is that he challenges the lens in which we read the text. Having the ambiguity of the Eunuch at the center, we understand the whole narrative. We then must ask ourselves what would be our personal ambiguity be that we could bring to the center of our understanding of the text?
Read MoreRev. Emmy Kegler’s book One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins is a meditation on an LGBT pastor’s relationship with Scripture. The book’s central idea can be summarized in the opening line of the final chapter: “I have come to love the stories of Scripture because I was found by love first.”
Read MoreIn regard to Scripture, progressive revelation means that there are two movements happening in the Bible: first, a movement toward lived experience becoming a valid reason to change one’s mind about old truths; and second, a movement toward the full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. Robertson relies especially on the first movement to say that the “witness” of LGBTQ+ Christians—their experiences of faithful living—demonstrates that the Spirit of God has moved toward inclusion.
Read MoreIn Changing Our Mind, Gushee shocked the evangelical world by proclaiming that he not only no longer believes this but also that he now desires the fellowship of the "bullied" (LGBT people) more than that of the "bullies.”
Read MoreSexual Disorientations does not seek the completion of queer theory, theology, or biblical studies. In fact, it is a book which is altogether skeptical that any such completion could possibly exist. Instead, this book is a book about “pointing” in particular directions. To where—or more precisely to when—does queerness point?
Read MoreUnfair: Christians and the LGBTQ Question, is a timely book of voices from the LGBTQ+ community that brings the often forgotten human experience of queer-identifying people into the current debates of inclusion and affirmation of queer sexualities that are occurring within many Christian churches today.
Read MoreMiguel A. De La Torre… states, “any struggle for liberation must truly begin with a discussion on sex.”
Read MoreSam Allberry’s 2013 book, Is God Anti-Gay?, addresses the topic of homosexuality—or as Allberry prefers, “same-sex attraction”—in the Christian context.
Read MoreGalvanized by the lack of discussion, the crisis of HIV/AIDS, and a personal connection to the field, [Douglas] brings a womanist perspective to begin the conversation of sexuality in the Black community.
Read MoreMark Achtemeier walks through his journey from conservative church activist to advocate for same-sex marriage and ordination in his book The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage.
Read MoreIn his book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships, Matthew Vines makes a case in support of same-sex relationships by detailing his parents’ journey to an affirming position with the aid of scholarly works from a biblical perspective.
Read MoreThe Bible and the Transgender Experience by minister and ally Linda Tatro Herzer is an attempt to illustrate biblical support for “gender variance.”
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