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No story has ever had the life-changing power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But too often, this story is weighed down with out-dated theology and metaphysics. For those ready to rediscover Jesus, Diarmuid O’Murchu offers Catching Up with Jesus. This feast of spiritual insight guides us through the tradition and offers the gospel story [...]

Describes both sides of the debate in the church about homosexuality.

A sympathetic Christian approach to trans issues.

Merry Wiesner-Hanks assesses the role of personal faith and the church itself in the control and expression of all aspects of sexuality. The book ranges over developments within Europe and beyond to the European colonies which were establishing themselves around the world. Christian missionaries, and Christian rituals and structures, accompanied all of the imperial powers, [...]

John Boswell’s National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members – among them priests, bishops, and even saints – when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of [...]

The Anglican organisation Affirming Catholicism has published a booklet calling on the Church to welcome civil partnerships as a pastoral opportunity and a means of listening to the experience of lesbian and gay Christians. In a foreword to the booklet, the Very Rev’d Dr Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, thanks God for the [...]

As an academic, the author of this book developed a questionnaire about stress. Knowing nothing about the church or homosexuality, he found himself – together with one of his MSc students – conducting a research into stress among the clergy and then among a group of gay clergy. This book tells the results of his [...]

When gay men and lesbians decide to tell their parents of their sexuality, they have probably already made many trips to the library and (one hopes) found many up-to-date resources on gay sexuality, history, and health. But too often parents find themselves with a severe information deficiency on receiving the news. This book addresses that gap.

Well-known Christian gay activist Glaser asserts that the Christian Scriptures themselves defend the self-affirmation of gays and lesbians in the Church and provide pertinent examples of courage and opennness toward outcasts from the life of Jesus and others. He also provides seven sample rituals of commitment and celebration for the Church’s rejected children.

This book looks at the strategies employed to help resolve challenges to religious identity among members of two Metropolitan Community Churches in California-churches that predominantly serve LGBT Christians.

Coming Out Spiritually suggests that gay people have traditionally assumed ten spiritual roles or archetypes, and continue to assume them today. He suggests spiritual practices that can help LGBT people attain greater integrity.

Leanne McCall Tigert beautifully and painfully captures what it is to discover yourself gay within a mainline denomination. Her approach is refreshingly honest, illuminating the struggles and the celebrations of lesbigay Christians.

In this collection of sixty prayers Chris Glaser explores new ideas about discipleship, sexuality and spirituality.

A revised and updated version of the original 1983 book, listed by American Bookseller as a vital book that should be sold in every general bookshop.

Tigert takes seriously the homophobia evident within the church today, and provides a voice of hope for those who experience oppression as gay, lesbian, and bisexual Christians.

As numerous denominations grapple with the question of how to respond to the presence of gay and lesbian believers, Hartman’s evenhanded analysis of how nine communities of faith in North Carolina’s Research Triangle have dealt with the issue is an excellent guide. His book should help congregants negotiate the pitfalls of biblical interpretation and culturally [...]

A rich resource (comprising poems, prayers, litanies, liturgies and other worship material) containing the stories of many different people of different nationalities and sexualities, and reflecting the different stages of our lives. Geoffrey Duncan is a URC member and has compiled several other anthologies of prayer and worship.

Creative Stress reveals with precision how we can and must transmute negative stress so that we can evolve individually and collectively.