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Recruiting young love
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Mark D. Jordan |
In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging… |
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Closet devotions
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Richard Rambuss |
Religion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of “sacred eroticism,” the literar… |
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Uncommon Calling
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Chris Glaser |
In this book, Chris Glaser describes his personal journey of coming out to his family, friends, church--and to himself. He tells the story of how the church reacted to his disclosure and his subseque… |
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Queer Virtue
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Elizabeth M. Edman |
LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity.
As an openly lesbian Episcopal priest and professional advocate for LGBTQ justice, the Reverend Elizabeth E… |
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Filled with the Spirit
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Ellen Lewin |
In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fe… |
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Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America
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Ryan T. Cragun,J. E. Sumerau |
This book explores the ways Christian women in college make sense of bisexual, transgender, polyamorous, and atheist others. Specifically, it explores the ways they express tolerance for some sexual … |
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
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John Boswell |
From Wikipedia: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe is a historical study written by American historian John Boswell and first published by Villard Books in 1994. Then a professor at Yale University… |
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When Heroes Love
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Susan Ackerman |
Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his compani… |
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Recognizing Ourselves
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Ellen Lewin |
In April 1993, as part of the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, hundreds of couples participated in "the Wedding," a symbolic commitment ceremony held in front… |
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Breaking the conspiracy of silence
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Donald E. Messer |
More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the co… |
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Escaping God's closet
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Bernard Duncan Mayes |
This fascinating memoir by a gay British priest begins in London in 1929, when Bernard Mayes emerged from his heavily sedated mother, and, according to the practice of the day, was sequestered by doc… |
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