This book reflects the author's and other's personal struggles with the church as a source of pain and alienation--as well as support and spiritual renewal. Tigert offers a voice of hope for those who experience oppression as gay, lesbian, and bisexual Christians.
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Are you either Christian or Homosexual? Read this book!,
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This review is from: Coming Out While Staying in: Struggles and Celebrations of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals in the Church (Paperback)
Tigert has started to open the door on Christian homosexuals and the oppression they face within their own churches. She brings the reader face to face with personal accounts of the struggles that lesbian and gay people go through in society, but more specifically in church. She challanges the logic behind the homophobia. She helps explain the phenomonon of "splitting" and the impact it has on those who are not white male heterosexuals. For those who of us who feel called by God to ordained ministry, but who hesitate to heed his call because of the overwhelming response of congregational segragation of our homosexual being, this is a book to relate to. Excelent! I eagerly await further books by Leanne McCall Tigert.
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This review is from: Coming Out While Staying in: Struggles and Celebrations of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals in the Church (Paperback)
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. Read it, as I did, and discover yourself within her story. Fabulous reading for anyone struggling with the church and homosexuality, and a must read for any lesbigay person contemplating a call to the ordained ministry.
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When addressing the issues of gay/lesbian/bisexual persons within the church, I have come across numerous situations in which people have had enormous difficulty communicating with one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relational empowerment, bisexual persons, sexual justice, liberating theology, structural family therapy, liberating love, heterosexual persons, lesbian people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Church of Christ, Spirit of the Mountains, New Hampshire, Welcoming Church, General Synod, San Francisco, Stories of Hurting, United States, Bill Johnson, Carter Heyward, Christ Jesus, Welcoming Congregations, Dysfunctional System, United Methodist Church New!
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When addressing the issues of gay/lesbian/bisexual persons within the church, I have come across numerous situations in which people have had enormous difficulty communicating with one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relational empowerment, bisexual persons, sexual justice, liberating theology, structural family therapy, liberating love, heterosexual persons, lesbian people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Church of Christ, Spirit of the Mountains, New Hampshire, Welcoming Church, General Synod, San Francisco, Stories of Hurting, United States, Bill Johnson, Carter Heyward, Christ Jesus, Welcoming Congregations, Dysfunctional System, United Methodist Church New!
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