Calling the Rainbow Nation Home: A Story of Acceptance and Affirmation [Paperback]

E Sundby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 22, 2005

“This book is a journey for truth.”—Samuel Kader Sr., Pastor, Community Gospel Church, Dayton, Ohio, Openly Gay, Openly Christian, Leyland Publications.

Am I going to hell because I am gay? Is homosexuality a sin? Should I remain celibate my entire life?

If you or someone you love is struggling with these issues, this book is for you. Follow Reverend Elaine Sundby’s journey as she takes us on her personal quest for truth and self-acceptance—a path that eventually led her to enter the ministry. Reverend Sundby was determined to discover God’s plan for her and equally determined to do what was right in the eyes of God, without taking “the easy way out.”

Simple to understand, yet rooted in spiritual truth, Calling the Rainbow Nation Home has the potential to heal—to heal the battered soul of the Christians who are struggling to reconcile their homosexuality with their faith, and to heal their relationships with those who love them and want to understand.

A new era is just beginning in the gay Christian community, as thousands begin to realize that God loves us all just as we are.

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About the Author

Reverend Elaine Sundby is the founder of Faith Full Gospel Church and www.gaychurch.org, an online community that ministers to the international gay Christian community.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (August 22, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595336299
• ISBN-13: 978-0595336296
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #790,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scripturally Based Master Piece, October 28, 2005

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Mountain Lady (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calling the Rainbow Nation Home: A Story of Acceptance and Affirmation (Paperback)

Rev. Sundby's work "Calling the Rainbow Nation Home" is flat out the best book out there today on this subject (I also highly recommend Miner's book "The Children are Free"). Rev. Sundby begins with her own personal journey to find God's will in this matter. The book follows that journey with each chapter set aside to handle a major issue faced along the way. Issues like: Salvation, what is sin to God?, the policy of "non practicing" (i.e. celibacy), the 8 clobber passages some use against homosexuals, the "fruit" of the spirit and the character evident within the lives of the members of the gay Christian community. She devouts a chapter to what she has witnessed while ministering within the gay Christian community. Simply amazing stuff.

But she doesn't stop there. Laying down her case, point after point until the reader can see beyond any shadow of a doubt that God has indeed "welcomed home" the gay community. Just as they are. She finishes her work by demonstrating the similarities between the present struggle for acceptance the gay (GLBT) community is going through with the rejection other groups have faced before. Jesus with the Pharisees, the Gentiles with the Jews, the Reformation with the Catholic Church, the rejection of the Anabaptists, the holiness movement, the issue of slavery, Azusa street, the Faith and Charismatic movement, women in ministry and on and on it goes. All of these moves were persecuted by the church and by people using erroneously using Scripture to bludgeon the group God was calling home.

She points out there we are in a critical moment of the Churches evolution with Christ working within the Body of Christ today to tear down walls of discrimination and exclusion and welcome everyone home. Who can stop God when He/She sovereignly moves? Nobody. In the words of Gamaliel; if this move is of God "you will not be able to stop it; (and if you try) you will only find yourself fighting against God."

Excellent book that is destined to become a classic.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Calling the Rainbow Nation Home, October 24, 2005

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This review is from: Calling the Rainbow Nation Home: A Story of Acceptance and Affirmation (Paperback)

This is one of those rare books that strives to be painstakingly honest, with no pre-conceived agenda. I'm a very conservative, straight Baptist woman who also happens to be a physician AND to have many gay friends, whom I love dearly. I have to say this one reference has been more helpful for me than any other source I have read--and I think I've read almost all of them! This is such a difficult issue and so divisive for so many. If everyone read this one book, I think that might not be the case anymore. Rev. Sundby has stayed true to the Biblical passages, using the original Greek translations. I think this book could be one way God has employed for healing relationships that have been troubled by the "gay vs. straight" controversy. We're all sinners and we all need His grace. Rev. Sundby deals with this beautifully.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Holy Spirit Moves, August 3, 2006

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This review is from: Calling the Rainbow Nation Home: A Story of Acceptance and Affirmation (Paperback)

This book, unlike many I have read delves deeper into how the Holy Spirit is moving in the GLBT world. This is an excellent book of the life altering changes the Rev. Sundby undertook to remain true to both herself and to the call of God.
I recommend this book to anyone who is GLBT and so a citizen of the Rainbow nation, or anyone with friends or family who are, and also to those who take the instruction of Micah 6:3 to heart: "And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
This book will help us all on our walk.