Just as I am : a practical guide to being out, proud, and Christian /
A gay Episcopalian priest discusses what it means to be a Christian homosexual, biblical teachings that offer support, the joys of lesbian and gay Christianity, and how to reclaim one's faith after rejection by a religious community.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[1992]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Faith: the starting point
- Prayer and meditation: trusting your inner voice
- The Bible: the bad news
- The Bible: the good news
- Holy mother church vs. the queer nation: the authority of community
- God: healing our images
- Mary: the divine feminine
- Jesus the Christ: our elder brother
- The word made flesh: incarnation and sacrament
- Keeping the feast: celebrating God's gifts
- Righting the wrongs: queer ethics, sin, evil, and reconciliation
- Coming out: responding to God's call
- I am what I am: claiming gay pride
- Sex: eros as vocation
- Lovers: the vocation of commitment
- Holy anger: protest as vocaton
- Being a berdache: the vocation of being queer
- Letting God be God: addiction and recovery
- Trusting the great physician: AIDS and Christian healing
- Sure and certain hope: death and afterlife.