Review
This gay-sensitive story about the Christian big boy's explicit queer incarnation is a winsome affirmation of erotic love's sacred potential. --
Richard Labonte, "Book Marks" Q Syndicate column, Feb 2007This gay-sensitive story about the Christian big boy's explicit queer incarnation is a winsome affirmation of erotic love's sacred potential. --
Richard Labonte, "Book Marks" Q Syndicate column, Feb 2007This is revolutionary religious fiction. --
Bay Area Reporter, March 1, 2007
From the Publisher
"In imagining a Jesus who really lived, laughed and loved, Kitt Cherry has broken through the stained glass barrier. Don't be afraid. This is not a prurient look at the sex life of Jesus but a classic re-telling of the greatest story ever told, the story of a truly human Jesus and those truly human women and men who lived, laughed and loved with him. Read JESUS IN LOVE and you will feel His Spirit reaching out to you, inviting you to live, laugh and love with him as well."
--Rev. Mel White, founder of Soulforce and author of
Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right "A truly mind-blowing creation. The writing style is just perfect. JESUS IN LOVE is a wonderful, gay-sensitive, and delightfully `shocking' reassessment of the stories of the old-time religion. I promise you, you'll be surprised by the book."
--Toby Johnson, author of Gay Spirituality and former editor of White Crane: A Journal of Gay Spirit
"What a lovely, gentle, playful book! It sparkles with erotic christic power, which we might read as an image of Jesus' own sexual energies. Kitt Cherry continues to write with passion as she draws creatively and faithfully from deep wellsprings of imagination."
--Rev. Carter Heyward, Ph.D.,Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology, Cambridge, MA
"A book whose time has come. Many people will misunderstand this book--especially those who refuse to read it. It is a contemporary and creative work of fiction rooted in a sensibility of the search for holiness. "
--Rev. Malcolm Boyd, author of Are You Running with Me, Jesus?
"Breathtaking--well-characterized, well-written, emotionally and, dare I say it, theologically MATURE."
--JoSelle Vanderhooft, editor of Tiresias Revisited: Magical Tales for Transfolk
"I loved it. I understand why it rubs some conservative folk the wrong way, but I say rub 'em. For every person who's offended, there must be another that revels in it."
--John Fleck, gay performance artist of the "NEA Four"
"People who want to understand how erotic love can be sacred, and divine love can be erotic, will delight in this novel. So will anyone who wants to be stimulated theologically, sensuously, and spiritually, all at the same time. And for those interested in moving beyond our society's rigid gendersexual norms, this book is a feast."
--Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Ph.D., author of Omnigender, Transgender Journeys and Sensuous Spirituality.
"A daring, badly needed and well written book. This novel helps us accept the redemption of our erotic bodies as part of Jesus' salvation of us from all alienation. We have always known that the great mystics such as Teresa of Avila experience mystical prayer flowing over into an erotic experience. Cherry had the audacity to imagine the same thing happening in Jesus, resulting in both hetero and homosexual feelings."
--John J. McNeill, author of The Church and the Homosexual
"A page turner with much spiritual insight. I was sad I finished it because I was enjoying being with those characters every night! I especially liked Jesus. He was such a likeable character that you really did want to be connected to him. I so loved that he wasn't a top-down, egotistical guy `who thought he was God.'"
--Judith A. Finlay, Ph.D., biochemist
