Books
Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics
Perhaps no other single moral issue today is as hotly contested, or as divisive, as sexuality. Offering a bold and hopeful vision of how Christians - and all people of goodwill - can view this explosive topic, ethicist Christine Gudorf proposes nothing less than a...
Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays In Black Churches
The Black Church's teaching that homosexuality is immoral has created a crisis for lesbian and gay Christians in black churches. This book provides a historical overview and critical analysis of the black church and its current engagement with lesbian and gay...
Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up
Queering is a method that I use theologically. As a verb, "to queer" means to spoil or interfere with. If the theological system is already spoiled, spoiling the spoiled system to make it more inclusive of folks disenfranchised from Christianity is a good. This book...
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart
From Reverend Peter Gomes, a man whom Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America, here is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today, and the ever-evolving role of the Good Book in American politics, culture, and in our own lives. With...
Just Love: A Framework For Christian Sexual Ethics
All along I have been struck by the urgency of contemporary issues in sexual ethics, not in spite of but along with the many other urgent ethical issues that demand our attention today. What happens in the sexual sphere of human life is not isolated from what happens...
Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection
Christian discourse on sexuality, spirituality, and ethics has continued to evolve since this book's first edition was published in 1994. This updated and expanded anthology featuring more than thirty contemporary essays includes more theologians and ethicists of...
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
This book tackles the "taboo" subject of sexuality that has long been avoided by the Black church and community. Douglas argues that this view of Black sexuality has interfered with constructive responses to the AIDS crisis and teenage pregnancies, fostered...
A Lily Among The Thorns: Imagining A New Christian Sexuality
Author Miguel De La Torre, a well-respected ethicist and professor known for his innovative readings of Christian doctrine, rejects both the liberal and conservative prejudices about sex. He instead develops an ethic that is liberative yet grounded soundly in the...
The Bible, The Church, And Homosexuality
The Bible, the Church and Homosexuality is intended to reach those who believe that the issues in human sexuality involve a straight choice between faithfulness to Scripture or conforming to liberal conscience, and that Scripture must prevail even if their heart and...
Gay Theology Without Apology
Christian Scripture and tradition are not authorities from which I seek approval; rather, they are resources from which I seek guidance and learn lessons as well [as] institutions that I seek to interpret, shape, and change. I am not afraid to look for, face, and...