Rev. 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 MoreLee, a former evangelical Christian herself, weaves together the personal accounts of four young, progressive, self-proclaimed evangelical reformers with an expansive body of research on church trends, politics, and sociology as well as her own personal experience with evangelicalism in her youth.
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 MoreUnnatural: Spirituality in Queer Christian Women by Rachel Murr seeks to create a stronger community of Queer people who hold a religious faith through the breaking of silence.
Read MoreHartke brings different trans-affirming theologies together to provide a resource for transgender people and Christian communities.
Read MoreFor Chu, Jesus’ love is sure, yet it cannot be kept secret—it must be shared in a way that invites communion among believers.
Read MoreCantorna speaks to LGBTQ Christians who have experienced great loss, sorrow, and shame. For that audience, this book uplifts and empowers.
Read MoreDrew Harper illustrates the many ways in which he had to assume the role of parent to his own father… Still, this book provides a hopeful alternative to the all-too-common narrative of familial disintegration resulting from conservative parents’ refusal to see their gay child’s identity as valid, beloved, and God-given.
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.
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