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God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
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Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Terms like same-sex marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gay Christian are part of daily discourse; yet enormous controversy surrounds them. They are the stuff of news headlines and vitriolic social media posts. But they also reflect stirrings of the heart in real people with real questions and concerns. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, once a leftist professor in a committed lesbian r
Faitheist: How An Atheist Found Common Ground With The Religious
Chris Stedman · 208 pages
Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.
Christopher Yuan, Angela Yuan · 222 pages
What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality
Daniel A. Helminiak · 136 pages
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality
Wesley Hill · 160 pages
"Gay," "Christian," and "celibate" don't often appear in the same sentence. Yet many who sit next to us in the pew at church fit that description, says author Wesley Hill. As a celibate gay Christian, Hill gives us a glimpse of what it looks like to wrestle firsthand with God's "No" to same-sex relationships. What does it mean for gay Christians to live faithful to God while struggling with the ch
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
Jeff Chu · 353 pages
A writer for Time magazine, after coming out to his parents as a gay man, documents his personal journey, from Brooklyn to California, to discover the God forbidden to him because of his sexuality and understand what the diverse followers of Christ believe about homosexuality. An intellectual, emotional, and spiritual pilgrimage that reveals a nation in crisis.
Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
Caleb Kaltenbach · 211 pages
"A pastor with an unforgettable inside story shows evangelicals how to nurture healthy, respectful, and biblically informed relationships with people in the LGBT community"--
Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
Andrew Marin · 204 pages
Discusses how Christians and the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community need to build a bridge of communication and understanding that is based on the gospel.
The Cross in the Closet
Timothy Kurek · 354 pages
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
John Boswell · 436 pages
From back cover: Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consul
American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
Dan Savage · 302 pages
The sex-advice columnist for "Savage Love" draws on his experience with the It Gets Better campaign to share pithy insights into a range of topics including health care, gun control, and marriage equality.
Boy Erased: A Memoir
Garrard Conley · 352 pages
Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Mitch Albom · 272 pages
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds-two men, two faiths, two communities-that will inspire readers everywhere.Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-ye
The Cross and the Switchblade
David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill · 175 pages
The astonishing true story of Wilkerson's outreach to New York teens trapped by drugs and gangs. Over 14 million copies in print!
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott · 281 pages
"Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Thich Nhat Hanh · 134 pages
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spir
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Jen Hatmaker · 224 pages
The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't und
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Joshua Harris · 149 pages
This easy-to-use study guide -- the companion to Joshua Harris's runaway bestseller, I Kissed Dating Goodbye -- is designed to spark dialogue and get people talking openly and honestly about relationships. Most importantly, it helps them apply biblical principles to their lives. Whether it's in personal study, with a small group of friends, or in a Sunday school class, this study guide can help ma
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · 256 pages
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experienc
The Way of Zen
Alan W. Watts · 236 pages
Introduction à la philosophie bouddhique zen, ses origines bouddhistes et taoïstes, son histoire et ses grands principes.