Catholics are called to cultivate robust, mutually enriching dialogue with the modern world by attentively and discerningly listening to the �voices of our times.� This distinctive new publication explores sexual diversity and the Catholic Church and gathers an important set of these voices: the testimonies and reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ persons, their friends, family members, and those ... Weiterlesen

Richard Rodriguez: Darling

A Spiritual Autobiography. USA 2014, 235 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Penguin USA

Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. Rodriguez's stylish new memoir - the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist - moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the ... Weiterlesen

Robin Reardon: The Revelations of Jude Connor

USA 2013, 357 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Kensington

Jude Connor's rural Idaho hometown is a place of strong values and high expectations. For those who fit into the local church's narrow confines, there's support and fellowship. For those who don't, there's ostracism in this life and certain damnation in the next. Jude wants desperately to be saved. Yet it hasn't been easy. He thinks he's gay and needs ... Weiterlesen

Will Roscoe: Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love

USA 2013, 236 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Lethe

Gay anthropologist Will Roscoe gives new insights into the connections between Jesus and same-sex love. He discusses recent archeological discoveries related to the queer Christ and his own beliefs about Jesus. Drawing on recently discovered ancient sources, the book makes a persuasive argument that gay love and mysticism form a hidden tradition in Christianity. It won a Lambda Literary Award ... Weiterlesen

Jeff Chu: Does Jesus Really Love Me?

A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. USA 2013, 353 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Harper Collins

When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried. Every time she looked at him. For months. As a journalist and a believer, Chu knew that he had to get to the heart of a question that had been haunting him for years: does Jesus really love me? The quest to find ... Weiterlesen

Bernadette Barton: Pray the Gay Away

The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays. USA 2012, 272 pp., brochure, € 35.95
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New York University Press

In the Bible Belt, it's common to see bumper stickers that claim �One Man + One Woman = Marriage�, church billboards that command one to �Get right with Jesus�, letters to the editor comparing gay marriage to marrying one's dog, and nightly news about homophobic attacks from the �Family Foundation�. While some areas of the Unites States have made tremendous ... Weiterlesen

Carter Sickels: The Evening Hour

USA 2012, 328 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury

Most of the wealth in Dove Creek, West Virginia, is in the mountains - in the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life, but little prosperity. Born here and raised by his Pentecoastal grandfather, 27-year-old Cole Freeman sidestepped work as a miner to become an aide in a nursing home. He's got a shock of bleached ... Weiterlesen

Justin Lee: Unconditional

Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs-Christians Debate. UK 2012, 234 pp., brochure, € 18.99
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Hodder and Stoughton

Justin Lee is the founder and executive director of �The Gay Christian Network� (GCN), a non-profit, interdenominational organisation working to increase dialogue between gays and Christians and support people on both sides wrestling with related issues. As a passionate Christian from a conservative evangelical Bible Belt background, Justin thought he knew everything there was to know about the Christian approach ... Weiterlesen

Martha Edens Clark: Coming Out Together

The Journey of a Gay Minister's Wife Through Love, Divorce, and Remarriage. USA 2011, 115 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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AuthorHouse

This is the story of a young woman (the author) who knew next to nothing about homosexuality, and a young minister (Maurice) who suppressed his homosexuality for 55 years. It is about their friendship, love, marriage, and eventual revelation of his homosexuality. It is told in chapters which answer questions that the author has been asked as she began to ... Weiterlesen

Keith Sharpe: The Gay Gospels

Good News for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People. USA 2011, 203 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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With its unique �two testament� approach, this book offers both an unassailable defence and a powerful affirmation of the humanity of gay people in the face of increasingly virulent Christian homophobia. In the Defensive Testament the so-called �Biblical texts of terror� in Genesis, Leviticus and St Paul's letters, often used to attack and demonise LGBT people, are analysed and found ... Weiterlesen

Terry E. Hill: Come Sunday Morning

USA 2011, 298 pp., brochure, € 12.79
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Hezekiah T. Cleaveland is the handsome charismatic pastor of New Testament Cathedral in Los Angeles. His beautiful wife, Reverend Samantha Cleaveland, is the power behind Hezekiah and his megachurch, running their national TV ministry with a firm hand. The problem is that she's tired of living in her husband's shadow. When Hezekiah meets Danny St. John, who opens up Hezekiah ... Weiterlesen

Patrick S. Cheng: Radical Love

An Introduction to Queer Theology. USA 2011, 162pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives - including feminist theology, black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology - and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one. However, this is the first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology. The author provides a historical survey of ... Weiterlesen

Raveh Kaldera: Hermaphrodeities

The Transgender Spirituality Workbook. UK 2010, 338 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Transgendered people have long been robbed of their own spiritual history, not knowing that there were once times and places where ours was considered a spiritual path in and of itself. This book explores both our spiritual history and our modern predicaments, shaping the outline of a contemporary spiritual path for those of us who don't fit into just one ... Weiterlesen

Michael Carson: Sucking Sherbet Lemons

The Coming-of-Age Novel with a Difference. UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Cutting Edge

A gay Adrian Mole: what do you do when you are fat, 14, obsessed with the catholic church, with Doing the Right Thing, with scones and sweets, with other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St Finbar's monastery is as full of ... Weiterlesen

Geoffrey Robertson: The Case of the Pope

Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse. UK/USA 2010, 228pp., brochure, € 5.99
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This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy ... Weiterlesen

Angelo Quattrocchi: The Pope is Not Gay!

UK/USA 2010, 181pp. with colour photographs, brochure, € 29.95
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This is an irreverent history of homophobic and sexist obscurantism in the Catholic Church and an endoscopic examination of its greatest contemporary advocate, Pope Benedict XVI. The author traces the evolution of Joseph Ratzinger's life, beginning with the Pope's childhood in Nazi Germany, his membership in the Hitler Youth in Bavaria and his conscription into the German anti-aircraft corps. His ... Weiterlesen

James Hannaham: God Says No

USA 2010, 305pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are both 19, god-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. This is his testimony - the story of a young ... Weiterlesen

Gregg Drinkwater (ed.): Torah Queeries

Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. USA 2010, 337 pp., hardbound, € 27.59
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New York University Press

In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. These weekly portion, read aloud in synagogues around the world, have been subject to interpretation and commentary for centuries. Following on this ancient tradition, this book brings together some of the world's leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah ... Weiterlesen

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