Books
The Loyal Opposition: Struggling with the Church on Homosexuality
No issue more polarizes American Protestants today than the church’s stance on homosexuality. In recent years, a number of denominations have engaged in prolonged and divisive debates on the subject, and it appears that these debates will continue to occupy their...
Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics
Why has the Right's anti-gay agenda been so successful in galvanizing a broad spectrum of Christians to political action? Why have the issues of gay ordination and gay marriage come to dominate liberal Christian discussions of sexuality? What questions about sexual...
Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology
Few would doubt that this is a time of transition in our understanding of human sexuality. The confusion about sexual morals and mores is the more obvious evidence of this. But there is something else. For too long the bulk of Christian reflection about sexuality has...
What God Has Joined Together: The Christian Case for Gay Marriage
Gay marriage has become the most important domestic social issue facing twenty-first-century Americans -- particularly Americans of faith. Most Christians are pro-marriage and hold traditional family values, but should they endorse extending marriage rights to gays...
Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach
This book bridges traditional religious doctrine and secular postmodern theory regarding gender. Through an examination of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and church history as well as the exploration of other religious traditions and cultures, Mollenkott honors...
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality
The myth that the Bible forbids homosexuality—the myth of “God versus Gay”—is behind some of the most divisive and painful conflicts of our day. In this provocative and game-changing book, scholar and activist Jay Michaelson shows that the Bible does not prohibit...
Sex as God Intended
For more than thirty-five years, John J. McNeill, an ordained priest and psychotherapist, has been devoting his life to spreading the good news of God's love for lesbian and gay Christians. McNeill presents a simple and straightforward answer to the question: What did...
Taking a Chance on God: Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and their Lovers, Families, and Friends
The second book in John McNeill's pathbreaking trilogy for lesbian and gay Christians, Taking a Chance on God brings a gay perspective to fundamental Christian questions: How can we understand suffering and death? How can we overcome fear, anger, and guilt? What does...
The Church and the Homosexual
The first edition of Father John J. McNeill's now-classic The Church and the Homosexual, published in 1976, convincingly established that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. In the provocative new preface to this fourth edition, McNeill calls on the Vatical to...
Love The Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
Sex. Religion. There is no denying that these two subjects are among the most provocative in American public life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on theology as readily as it...