Ethics & Spirituality
It’s Time To Embrace a Sex-Positive Christianity
If you want to see people get uncomfortable really quickly, bring up religion and sexuality. I’ve devoted the last decade of my life to writing, researching, and teachings about both Christianity and queer sexuality and gender identity, and since then my life has been...
Identiversity
Identiversity provides reliable and trustworthy educational resources about the real people in all of our lives through fact-based learning about gender and sexual identity. Our focus is: real people, real identities, real learning. The identiversity digital learning...
Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today
This new revised edition of the landmark 1988 text includes updated text and notes throughout, taking advantage of recent studies of sexual ethics and, where appropriate, criticizing them. A new chapter engages the presumed "ethic of creation" that has become a major...
Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches
Issues surrounding homosexuality threaten to divide the Christian churches and the people within them. This unique resource presents short pieces from some of the nation's most prominent church leaders - Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical - who address...
Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
Rev. Dr. Justin Tanis is a creative queer theologian and activist with a wealth of pastoral experience. His classic, Transgender--Theology, Ministry and Communities of Faith, is now available again for faith communities and university students struggling to include...
Religion is a Queer Thing: A Guide to the Christian Faith for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People
"I have a theory as to why the official bodies of the churches seem just to circle the issue of homosexuality endlessly, not getting anywhere. I believe that the debate is not really about homosexuality at all, it is about heterosexuality and how far heterosexuality...
Just Good Friends: Towards a Lesbian and Gay Theology of Relationships
A great deal has been written about homosexuality and Christianity. Although generally there is a conscious move towards understanding and incorporating the experiences of gay men and women, the Church's response has been to treat homosexuality as a problem within...
Living In Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality
Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage? Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying? Should the church receive people who identify as LGBTQ into its community and support gay and lesbian relationships? Should...
Is The Homosexual My Neighbor?
A classic revolutionary work on the Christian and biblical case for the full acceptance of LGBTQ community into the church by two leading pioneers and scholars. This revised and expanded edition includes updated information on topics such as the AIDS crisis and...
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...