Books
Radical Love: Introduction to Queer Theology
Radical love, I contend, is a love so extreme that it dissolves our existing boundaries, whether they are boundaries that separate us from other people, that separate us from preconceived notions of sexuality and gender identity, or that separate us from God. It is...
From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering The Queer Christ
I first learned that I was a sinner in junior high school. Struggling to understand my budding attraction to other boys, I turned to my local public library for help. Being a devout Roman Catholic, I found a reference book on Catholic doctrine, and I furtively turned...
Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay And Lesbian Christians
For years, the media have attempted to "balance" the "homosexual issue" with voices from the "other side." That "other side" has traditionally ben voices from religion, specifically the Christian religion. I'm not quite sure how religious voices got to be the "other...
Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out On Homosexuality
Anglican churches worldwide are sharply divided on homosexuality. The 'south' is said to be unanimously and consistently lined up against homosexuality as immoral and sinful, while the 'north' (except for some 'orthodox traditionalists') supports it. The differences...
The Queer God
There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter churches with love letters hidden in their bags, because their need for God and their need for love refuse to fit into...
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America
Until Christmas Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as one of their most talented and productive supporters. He penned the speeches of Ollie North. He was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell, worked with Jim Bakker, flew in Pat...
Transgendering Faith: Identity, Sexuality, And Spirituality
Transgendering Faith is a resource to help churches respond with love and care to transgender people in our society, both those within the Christian community and those who find themselves--unhappily--outside its doors. It is also a book for transgender Christians,...
Called Out With (Stories of Solidarity)
Called Out With presents itself as compendium and complement to the book Called Out: Voices and Gifts of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Presbyterians. Here you will read stories of friends, family, and allies who work beside lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
Unfinished Lives: Reviving The Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crime Victims
Over 13,000 Americans have been murdered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries because of their sexual orientation and gender presentation. In Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims, Stephen Sprinkle puts a human face on...
In The Eye Of The Storm: Swept To The Center By God
In this meandering but charming book, Robinson, the controversial gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, addresses sexuality and theology. He argues that the cause for which the planets “seem to be aligned” today is full civil rights of GLBT people. Many of the...