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My Holiday Reading: Gay Religious Books
It has been a long time since I have felt able to spend any money on new books, so I was delighted over the last few weeks to find that I have been able to stock up, in two batches.These are my new...
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Reflections on Brooten: Love Between Women
I have just finished reading (for the first time - I will re-read it later) Bernadette Brooten's "Love Between Women", which has been a stimulating, enriching experience. Now, I totally lack the...
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MARIN, A: Love is an Orientation
[Love Is an Orientation] is a book that will put most of you into an immediate struggle. You are going to read what Marin says about the situation between Evangelicals and the Gay community with...
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WEAKLAND: Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church
Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009385 pages“For many people, the name of Archbishop Rembert Weakland brings to mind only connotations of scandal ż the titillating tale of...
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Loughlin (ed):QUEER THEOLOGY:
RETHINKING THE WESTERN BODY Blackwell Pub, 2007351 pagesQueer theology;Contributors: James Alison, Tina Beattie, Daniel Boyarin, Virginia Burrus, Gavin D’Costa, Paul Fletcher, Christopher Hinkle, Amy...
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Garner, Abigail: Families Like Mine
Children of gay Parents Tell It Like it IsWhat is it really like to grow up with gay parents?Abigail Garner was five years old when her mother and father divorced and her dad came out as gay. Growing...
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ROGERS, J: Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality
Westminster John Knox Press, 2009208 pagesChristian, Gay and lesbian, ScriptureIn this revised and expanded best seller, Rogers argues for equal rights in both the church and society for lesbians,...
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O’Keefe, T; Fox, K: Trans People in Love
Routledge, 2008275 pages Trans People in Love is an illuminating resource for members of the trans community and their partners and families; gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and intersex people;...
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Sweasey, P: From Queer to Eternity: Spirituality in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay...
Diane Pub Co, 1997239 pagesMulti-faith, Lesbian and gay, SpiritualityAsks why any self-respecting queer would want to have anything to do with spirituality. Answers come from a diverse collection of...
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The Intimate Dance of Sexuality and Spirituality
I would expect that most of my lesbian & gay readers have known the liberating growth experience of coming out: at least to themselves and to close friends, or (where realistically appropriate), to...
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Finding God in Gay Lovemaking
“An Erotic Encounter With the Devine” is the title of a post by Eric L. Hays-Strom at "Jesus in Love". In his post, he has a moving account of how deliberate prayer immediately before making love with...
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Same Sex Unions in Church History
One of the delights I find in taking that “bracing walk in history” is the frequent discoveries that what we usually assume to be the “common sense” understanding of modern practices and institutions...
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“Homosexuality & Civilization”: on Reading Louis Crompton.
There are many good books available on homosexuality in history, and thank God for that. These have a range of approaches, including scholarly, specialist tomes, more accessible pen-portraits of single...
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NOONAN, J: A Church That Can and Cannot Change
The Development of Catholic Moral TeachingUniv of Notre Dame Press, 2005312 pagesCatholic, Moral Theology, Church HistoryUsing concrete examples, John T. Noonan, Jr., demonstrates that the moral...
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MOORE: A Question of Truth
Christianity and Homosexuality[Photo] (Continuum Books, 2003)(Scripture, Theology, Sexuality)Fr Gareth Moore was a Dominican priest, and lecturer in theology and philosophy at Oxford University. The...
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NIMMONS, David: The Soul Beneath the Skin, The
The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay MenSt Martin’s Griffin, 2003ISBN 031232040X, 9780312320409255 pages“Among the most acclaimed books on the gay male experience, "The Soul Beneath the Skin" explores...
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DUBERMAN, Martin; CHAUNCEY, George; VICINUS, Martha: Hidden From History,
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian PastNew American Library 1989 Penguin 1991579 pagesLesbian and Gay HistoryWinner of two Lambda Rising Awards. "A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will...
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NAPHY, William: Born To be Gay
A History of Homosexuality“A global history of the lives of gay men and women from the earliest civilizations to the present day.” Homosexuality ahs always been present in society. William Naphy’s...
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MACLAREN Brian: A New Kind of Christianity
Ten Questions That Are Transforming the FaithHarper Collins, 2010320 pagesExamines 10 questions facing Christianity today, questions about authority, God, Jesus, how to articulate the faith itself, the...
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The Spiritual Gifts of Gay Sexuality
Spiritual direction is one of the best -kept secrets of the Catholic Church. This is unfortunate- the process needs to be better known and used. This is how Jesuit theologian James L'Empereur describes...
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NELSON, James B: Between two gardens:
Reflections on sexuality and religious experiencePilgrim Press, 1983Thoughtful reexamination of human sexuality and the Christian experience. Discusses men's and women's liberation, singleness,...
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HERDT, Gilbert H: Same sex, different cultures:
Exploring gay and lesbian livesWestview Press, 1997204 pagesBecause homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the...
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MURRAY, Stephen O: Homosexualities.
One of the world's leading authorities on global homosexualities has produced a magnum opus. Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, Stephen O. Murray's landmark work provides a sweeping...
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GREENBERG, David: The Construction of Homosexuality
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and...
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