Download or read book Black Gay British Christian Queer written by Jarel Robinson-Brown and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.

Download or read book Black Gay and Christian written by Herndon L. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official Web Site for "Black, Gay & Christian"http://blackgaychristian.comOp-Ed''''s/Articles/Excerpts/Updates:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackGayChristian/?Black, Gay & Christian? is a 16 chapter, gay/lesbian affirming, biblically based, spiritual empowerment tool. Over the course of 320 dynamic pages, it provides spiritual direction, motivational support and Christ-centered guidance to practicing Black Gay/Lesbians on how to live proud and fully committed, joy-filled, prosperous, and blessed lives as Gay/Lesbians Christians WITHOUT changing their orientation or sexual practices. In addition, there are two chapters targeted directly towards the Black Clergy and Families on how to reconcile, love and minister to loved ones/parishioners who are Gay/Lesbian.CATEGORIES:Gay Non-Fiction LiteratureAfrican American Non-Fiction LiteratureSpirituality/Inspirational/ChristianReligiousAUDIENCES: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, TransgenderAfrican AmericansClergy/Religious/Christian CommunityORDER OF CHAPTERSI. THE ?BIG PICTURE? OF HOMOSEXUALITYChapter 1: Gay Christianity: ?A Major Blessing Not a Sinful Curse?Chapter 2: Gay Inspiration to Remain Firmly Rooted in Jesus ChristChapter 3: Redefining, Reinventing, and Re-identifying Yourself as a Black Homosexual ?4 Essential Steps to Learn?Chapter 4: Why the Big Fuss Over Being Gay/Lesbian: ?18 Reasons for the Black Church and the Black Family to Discuss?Chapter 5: How to Love and Minister to Someone Who Is Gay/Lesbian: ?8 Steps for the Black Church and the Black Family to Follow?II. CHRISTIAN APPROACHES TO HANDLING BLACKGAY/LESBIAN ISSUESChapter 6: Overcoming the Emotional Pain of Black Gay/Lesbian Guilt ?4 Critical Steps We Must All Take?Chapter 7: Black Gay/Lesbian Dating, Relationships, Sex, & AIDS: ?20 Christian Steps to Follow?Chapter 8: Black Gay/Lesbians in the WorkplaceChapter 9: Black Gay/Lesbian and Raising ChildrenChapter 10: Black Gay/Lesbian and Managing Your Money God?s WayIII. RECONCILING YOUR DAILY CHRISTIAN WALKWITH YOUR HOMOSEXUAL COREChapter 11: Your Personal Relationship with God: A Gay/Lesbian ChoiceChapter 12: Who is Jesus Christ and what is His Significance?Chapter 13: Understanding Sin and Your Daily Life as a Born Again Gay/Lesbian ChristianChapter 14: Unleashing the Power of Prayer in Your Life!!Chapter 15: Understanding God?s Plan and Purpose for his Gay/Lesbian Children.Chapter 16: Standing, Walking, and Running on your Faith!!Official Web Site for "Black, Gay & Christian":http://blackgaychristian.comOp-Ed''''s/Articles/Excerpts/Updates:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackGayChristian/--------------------------------------------------------------------HERNDON L DAVISAUTHOR STATISTICS2004 Media Interviews, Op-Ed''''s Published and Book/Speaking EngagementsTony Brown?s Journal ? Seen on 175 PBS stations in the U. S. and the Caribbean and available to all 21.6 million guaranteed U. S. subscribers of DirecTV (channel 377) and Dish Network (channel 9042) on satellite television. http://blackamericaweb.com/ - 5-7 Million Impressions per monthBlackMenInAmerican.com -The site has a ?reach? of between 10 and 15 million users per day. According to Alexa Internet, the premier Internet Ranking Service, Black Men In America.com is the 5th most popular web site (online community) on the Internet in the Ethnic/African/African-American category. (AURN) American Urban Radio Networks- American?s only African American owned network radio company, reaching an estimated 25 million listeners through 475 stations.Los Angeles Times - 3.9 million readershipSouthern Voice Newspaper - More than 100,000 weekly readers,600 locations.Washington Blade Newspaper- More than 100,000 readers each and every week. 700 locations.New York Blade Newspaper- More than 100,000 readers with each and every issue, 900 locations.Update Magazine-30,000 weekly readers, 300 locationsAdvocate.com -Membership to nearly 300 Yahoo and MSN groups with a total membership and e-mail distribution reach exceeding 7,000 individuals. 2004 Order of Appearances, Interviews and Works PublishedEssays, articles, and book excerpts that I have authored are listed at the book''''s Yahoo Companion site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackGayChristian/My articles have been reprinted in the following websites and publications: Africana.com, BlackElectorate.com, BlackMeninAmerica.com, Operationrebirth.com, UKBlackOut, UKGay.com, Advocate.com, The New York Blade, The Washington Blade, The Southern Voice, Identity Magazine, The Urban Crusader, Exzkyst Magazine. 2004 Radio interviews(AURN) American Urban Radio Networks, news anchor Kim LampkinsWVEE (V-103 FM) Joyce Litttel Show, Atlanta based radio showWHQT 105.1FM, Rodney Baltimore, Miami, FLXM Satellite Radio, 169 The Power, The Otherside, A black gay radio showWVON 1450 AM, The Cliff Kelley Show, Chicago based talk showWASN Talk Radio with Martin Mangleman, Youngstown, OHWHAT (1340 AM), Mornings with Mary, Philadelphia based talk radio showWRFG FM ? Host Betty Couvertier, talk radioWPEG-FM radio station in Charlotte, NCKPFK 90.7 FM , IMRU Radio, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Television and Print InterviewsJune 11-17 - PBS aired my interview on the Tony Brown''''s Journal. The episode was titled "On the Down Low in the Black Church, #2716 " Aug. 1 ? Identity Magazine- Book review at http://www.wctimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=5748June 17- An article written on BlackAmericaWeb.com, which is also coordinated in conjunction with the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning radio show is posted at http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/gay616.This article has been reprinted and broadcast in black news media outlets across the country. October 16 - Profiled in a larger Los Angeles Times article concerning the convocation of Unity Fellowship Church, a black gay church movement.October 31 ? A local cable television guest on the Church of Truth television Ministry broadcast in Pasadena, CA, Rev. Donna Byrnes, Senior Minster.October 7 ? Profiled in the San Diego based Update Newspaper.2004 Inspirational Speaking Engagements/Workshops/Book signingsAtlanta ? March ? Tony Brown Journal InterviewMarch ? Los Angeles, CA ? Book signingApril ? Atlanta ? Book SigningApril-Philadelphia, PA ? Philadelphia Black Gay Pride/Workshop/Book signingApril/May ? Houston, TX ? Houston Black Gay Pride/Book signingMay ? Chicago, IL ? Workshop/book signingMay ? Washington DC ? Black Gay Pride/Speaking EngagementJune- Atlanta ? Speaking EngagementJune ? San Francisco ? San Francisco Pride -Panel DiscussionJuly ? New York City ? Workshop/Book SigningJuly ? Ft. Lauderdale, FL ? Workshop/Book SigningAugust ? Cleveland, OH ? Panel Discussion/Book SigningSeptember ? Los Angeles ? Speaking EngagementNovember ? Los Angeles ? Speaking EngagementDecember ? Houston, TX ? Panel Discussion/Book Signing2005 Inspirational Speaking Engagements/Workshops/Book signingsLos Angeles -February Colorado Springs ? February

Download or read book Gay Girl Good God written by Jackie Hill Perry and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I used to be a lesbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.

Download or read book God and the Gay Christian written by Matthew Vines and published by Convergent. This book was released on 2014 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterpretations of key Bible texts related to sexual orientation, written by a Harvard student, present an accessible case for a modern Christian conservative acceptance of sexual diversity.

Download or read book Black Gay British Christian Queer written by Jarel Robinson-Brown and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.

Download or read book I Can t Date Jesus written by Michael Arceneaux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging You, a timely collection of alternately hysterical and soul‑searching essays about what it is like to grow up as a creative, sensitive black man in a world that constantly tries to deride and diminish your humanity. It hasn’t been easy being Michael Arceneaux. Equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way and all, but voices of persons of color within the community are still often silenced, and being Black in America is…well, have you watched the news? With the characteristic wit and candor that have made him one of today’s boldest writers on social issues, I Can’t Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux’s impassioned, forthright, and refreshing look at minority life in today’s America. Leaving no bigoted or ignorant stone unturned, he describes his journey in learning to embrace his identity when the world told him to do the opposite. He eloquently writes about coming out to his mother; growing up in Houston, Texas; being approached for the priesthood; his obstacles in embracing intimacy that occasionally led to unfortunate fights with fire ants and maybe fleas; and the persistent challenges of young people who feel marginalized and denied the chance to pursue their dreams. Perfect for fans of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, and Phoebe Robinson, I Can’t Date Jesus tells us—without apologies—what it’s like to be outspoken and brave in a divisive world.

Download or read book Single Gay Christian written by Gregory Coles and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword INDIES Award Finalist IVP Readers' Choice Award In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles tells his own story. Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I'll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. I'll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered to myself the words I've whispered a thousand times since: "I'm gay." I'll show you the world through my eyes. I'll tell you what it's like to belong nowhere. To know that much of my Christian family will forever consider me unnatural, dangerous, because of something that feels as involuntary as my eye color. And to know that much of the LGBTQ community that shares my experience as a sexual minority will disagree with the way I've chosen to interpret the call of Jesus, believing I've bought into a tragic, archaic ritual of self-hatred. But I promise my story won't all be sadness and loneliness and struggle. I'll tell you good things too, hopeful things, funny things, like the time I accidentally came out to my best friend during his bachelor party. I'll tell you what it felt like the first time someone looked me in the eyes and said, "You are not a mistake." I'll tell you that joy and sorrow are not opposites, that my life has never been more beautiful than when it was most brokenhearted. If you'll listen, I promise I'll tell you everything, and you can decide for yourself what you want to believe about me.

Download or read book Their Own Receive Them Not written by Horace L. Griffin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Their Own Receive Them Not, Griffin provides a historical overview and critical analysis of the black church and its current engagement with lesbian and gay Christians, and shares ways in which black churches can learn to reach out and confront all types of oppression--not just race--in order to do the work of the black community.

Download or read book A Change of Affection written by Becket Cook and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, dramatic story of how a successful Hollywood set designer whose identity was deeply rooted in his homosexuality came to be suddenly and utterly transformed by the power of the gospel. When Becket Cook moved from Dallas to Los Angeles after college, he discovered a socially progressive, liberal town that embraced not only his creative side but also his homosexuality. He devoted his time to growing his career as a successful set designer and to finding "the one" man who would fill his heart. As a gay man in the entertainment industry, Cook centered his life around celebrity-filled Hollywood parties and traveled to society hot-spots around the world--until a chance encounter with a pastor at an LA coffee shop one morning changed everything. In A Change of Affection, Becket Cook shares his testimony as someone who was transformed by the power of the gospel. Cook's dramatic conversion to Christianity and subsequent seminary training inform his views on homosexuality--personally, biblically, theologically, and culturally--and in his new book he educates Christians on how to better understand this complex and controversial issue while revealing how to lovingly engage with those who disagree. A Change of Affection is a timely and indispensable resource for anyone who desires to understand more fully one of the most common and difficult stumbling blocks to faithfully following Christ today.

Download or read book Messy Grace written by Caleb Kaltenbach and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, grace gets messy. Caleb Kaltenbach was raised by LGBT parents, marched in gay pride parades as a youngster, and experienced firsthand the hatred and bitterness of some Christians toward his family. But then Caleb surprised everyone, including himself, by becoming a Christian…and a pastor. Very few issues in Christianity are as divisive as the acceptance of the LGBT community in the church. As a pastor and as a person with beloved family members living a gay lifestyle, Caleb had to face this issue with courage and grace. Messy Grace shows us that Jesus’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself” doesn’t have an exception clause for a gay “neighbor”—or for that matter, any other “neighbor” we might find it hard to relate to. Jesus was able to love these people and yet still hold on to his beliefs. So can you. Even when it’s messy. “Messy Grace is an important contribution to the conversation about sexual identity for churches and leaders. Caleb's story is surprising and unique, and he weaves it together compellingly. He states his views clearly, leaves room for disagreement, and champions love no matter where you are in this conversation.” —Jud Wilhite, Sr. Pastor, Central Christian Church

Download or read book What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality written by Kevin DeYoung and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just a few short years, massive shifts in public opinion have radically reshaped society’s views on homosexuality. Feeling the pressure to forsake long-held beliefs about sex and marriage, some argue that Christians have historically misunderstood the Bible’s teaching on this issue. But does this approach do justice to what the Bible really teaches about homosexuality? In this timely book, award-winning author Kevin DeYoung challenges each of us—the skeptic, the seeker, the certain, and the confused—to take a humble look at God’s Word. Examining key biblical passages in both the Old and New Testaments and the Bible’s overarching teaching regarding sexuality, DeYoung responds to popular objections raised by Christians and non-Christians alike—offering readers an indispensable resource for thinking through one of the most pressing issues of our day.

Download or read book Can You Be Gay and Christian written by Michael L. Brown and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we respond to gay people who tell us how much they love the Lord and experience God's power? What do we do with the argument that the Old Testament laws no longer apply? Brown provides solid biblical answers, clearly written and based on sound scholarship, in a compassionate way that causes the reader to wrestle with the issues and discover the biblical truth. He also provides practical guidelines for ministry, and shows readers how they can resist the gay agenda while reaching out to their gay friends and family.

Download or read book Costly Obedience written by Mark A. Yarhouse and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today--one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay--gay and straight Christians alike. Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him.

Download or read book Kenyan Christian Queer written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism. Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations. Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.

Download or read book Homosexuality and the Christian written by Mark A. PsyD Yarhouse and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Yarhouse gives honest and accurate answers to parents and pastors who have questions about homosexuality. Throughout the book, the author uses a new framework for understanding the issue, carefully separating the concept of "same sex attraction" from a "gay identity." In a clear and compassionate style, he explains the research regarding what causes same-sex attraction and whether or not it can be overcome. He also discusses what Christians can do when someone they know opens up to them about their homosexual attractions.

Download or read book Sexuality and the Black Church written by Douglas, Kelly Brown and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Lives Matter written by Pamela R. Lightsey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology. The author privileges their narratives and experiences as she reviews several doctrines and dogma of the Christian church. Theological reflection on contemporary debates such as same-sex marriage and ordination rights make this book a valuable resource to clergy, students of theology, LGBTQ persons and allies. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }