Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
By: Linn Marie Tonstad
4.13
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer T…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The whole social order that separates people into the decent and indecent, that regulates accepted orders of bodily and economic exchange, is ruptured by a Christ who gave his life for all, but most particularly the despised, a Christ who died at the hands of a colonial empire."-Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
"The whole social order that separates people into the decent and indecent, that regulates accepted orders of bodily and economic exchange, is ruptured by a Christ who gave his life for all, but most particularly the despised, a Christ who died at the hands of a colonial empire."-Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
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1. Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit
By: Patrick S. Cheng
3.95
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
- The first book to explore the theologies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people… read more
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2. Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
By: Patrick S. Cheng
4.40
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives including feminist theology, Bla… read more
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3. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
By: M. Shawn Copeland
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Being human is neither abstract nor hypothetical. It is concrete, visceral, and embodied in the eve… read more
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4. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.98
Format: None pages,
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more
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5. Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity
By: None
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
LGBTQ people are a gift to the Church and have the potential to revitalize Christianity. As an open… read more
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6. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
By: Eli Clare , Suzanne Pharr
4.37
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a … read more
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"The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies."-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaimin…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we end up shattering our self-hatred, shame, silence, and isolation, the goal is t…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
7. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
By: Mark A. Noll
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins t… read more
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8. A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian… read more
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9. Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships
By: None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Grapples conscientiously with biblical texts at the heart of the church's debate over same-sex rela… read more
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10. Little Book of Circle Processes: A New/Old Approach To Peacemaking
By: None
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in ci… read more
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11. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
By: Elizabeth A. Johnson
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. This classic explains what feminist theology… read more
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12. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
13. UnClobber
By: Glennon Doyle Melton , None
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude t… read more
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14. Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism
By: None
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
An inside look at the young, diverse, progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical m… read more
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15. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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17. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more
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18. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
19. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
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20. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
By: Jemar Tisby
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more
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"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
21. Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
By: Austen Hartke
4.40
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesti… read more
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"The thing is, we can't be in right relationship to each other if we can't see each other. We can't be fully present in any relationship if we're walling off part of ourselves or hiding beneath a mask."-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"It might seem daunting to a congregation to have to learn about pronouns, or to designate a bathroom gender-neutral, or to have difficult conversations about what it means to affirm LGBTQ+ identities…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"When we look at stories of renaming in the Bible, we often find that a character is handed a new name they never asked for. While I'm sure Abraham treasured the new name and promise God gave him, and…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"There are two ways to interpret what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 about our being one in Christ: either it means that we're all whitewashed and homogenized and our differences are erased... or it mean…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
22. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
By: Linda Kay Klein
4.17
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangeli… read more
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"The purity message nestles neatly into the larger “us"-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"Surviving gives you a very unique set of skills. It costs a lot. But it also makes you powerful."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
23. #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
By: Emily Joy Allison
4.35
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose t… read more
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24. Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
By: Linn Marie Tonstad
4.13
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer T… read more
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"The whole social order that separates people into the decent and indecent, that regulates accepted orders of bodily and economic exchange, is ruptured by a Christ who gave his life for all, but most …"-Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
25. Queer Theologies: The Basics
By: Chris Greenough
4.13
Format: 174 pages, ebook
Queer Theologies: The Basics is a concise and illuminating introduction to the study of this contro… read more
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26. Queer Religiosities: An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion
By: Melissa M. Wilcox
4.26
Format: 252 pages, ebook
Queer Religiosities is the first comprehensive, comparative, and globally focused introduction to q… read more
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27. In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture
By: Shannon T.L. Kearns
4.60
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Moving the conversation beyond transgender inclusion to demonstrate the unique and vital theologica… read more
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"My transition was a homecoming, a process of making peace, a fulfillment of my calling. When Jesus said he came so we would have abundant life (John 10:10), I think this is part of what he's talking …"-Shannon T.L. Kearns, In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture
"The message of the eunuchs also calls us to look around and ask: Who is being excluded? Who is not welcome? Who is there no space for? [...] There is nothing to prevent them from being baptized. Ther…"-Shannon T.L. Kearns, In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture
28. Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide
By: Grace Ji-Sun Kim
3.90
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Intersectional An Introductory Guide offers a pathway for reflective Christians, pastors, and theo… read more
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29. Theology for the End of the World
By: Marika Rose
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It feels like the world is ending. In the midst of apocalyptic times it’s tempting to cling on tigh… read more
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30. Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body
By: Gerard Loughlin
3.89
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. read more
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31. Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
By: Catherine Keller
4.04
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pret… read more
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