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God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality

10 best books like God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality (Jay Michaelson): Third Girl from the Left, Jericho, They Called Us Enemy, The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, Aftermath, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Black Hole, Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

Third Girl from the Left
AuthorMartha Southgate
ISBN0618470239
With Third Girl from the Left, Southgate brings her acute vision and emotional scope to a larger canvas. This enormously entertaining yet serious novel tells a story of African-American women struggling against all odds to express what lies deepest in their hearts. Like Michael Chabon’s The Amazing...
Jericho
AuthorAnn McMan
Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho–a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds go by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals and becomes fast...
They Called Us Enemy
AuthorGeorge Takei
ISBN1603094504
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
AuthorJulia Flynn Siler
ISBN1101875267
A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom

From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's...
Aftermath
AuthorAnn McMan
Readers everywhere fell in love with Syd, Maddie, David, Michael, Pete, and the irrepressible Roma Jean Freemantle in Ann McMan’s 2011 bestseller, Jericho. Now, return to the tiny mountain town in the much anticipated sequel, Aftermath.

Over the past eighteen months, Syd, Maddie, and...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0062406582
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
Black Hole
AuthorCharles Burns
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search For Black Panther
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1302915231
The world fell in love with her in Marvel’s Black Panther. Now, T’Challa’s techno-genius sister launches her own adventures — written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner Award-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! T’Challa has disappeared, and everyone...
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction &amp Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.

Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
AuthorNadia Bolz-Weber
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
 
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
Twisted at the Root
AuthorEllen Hart
ISBN1250308429
Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Ellen Hart’s intimate storytelling returns in Twisted at the Root, where Hart’s latest mystery shows the importance of finding the truth.

Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN1524762091
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.

In his decades as a globally...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
AuthorRob Bell
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions--so...
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
AuthorDebby Irving
ISBN0991331311
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about...
Naturally Tan
AuthorTan France
ISBN1250211077
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's smash-hit QUEER EYE, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional Muslim family, as one of the few people of color in...
Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, Vol. 1
AuthorKelly Sue DeConnick
ISBN1534305297
DECONNICK & DE LANDRO PRESENT: The Triple Feature!
Ripped directly from the world of BITCH PLANET, a crack team of creators spin fifteen teeth-clenching tales of rage, revolution and ridicule.
Patriarchy beware...this scifi kidney punch can't be stopped...!
100% Grade A satire....
A Tale of Love and Darkness
AuthorAmos Oz
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in...
The Angry Christian: A Theology for Care and Counseling
AuthorAndrew D. Lester
ISBN0664225195
In this work, respected scholar Andrew Lester discusses and incorporates the newest behavioral research models, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, constructivist philosophy, and narrative theory into a comprehensive pastoral theology of anger. In revisiting through the...
No Ivy League
AuthorHazel Newlevant
ISBN1549303058
When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new...
Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality
AuthorMark D. Jordan
ISBN0226410447
In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides—from the pressure of their peers to the nihilism and materialism...
Wakanda Forever
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1302913581
BRAND-NEW STORIES STARRING THE DORA MILAJE!

Marvel Studios' blockbuster film Black Panther has everyone talking about Wakanda's best warriors, the fierce Dora Milaje. Now witness the Dora outside of Wakanda - and in Spider-Man's world! When the Dora catch wind of a threat brewing outside...
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN0544837401
From the Sibert Honor–winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes a graphic novel of one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918.
 
New Year’s Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight....
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
AuthorErica Armstrong Dunbar
ISBN1501126393
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom.

When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly...
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
AuthorE. Patrick Johnson
ISBN0822362228
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume,...
Goldenrod
AuthorAnn McMan
ISBN1612940838
Goldenrod by Ann McMan is the third book in her Jericho series and to say it’s been worth the wait is an understatement. I think you could read it on its own, but I have no idea why you wouldn’t want to read Jericho or Aftermath first when they’re both such wonderful books.

Make no mistake....
LaGuardia
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1506710751
From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award Winner Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, Binti, Akata series) comes Laguardia. Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka,...
Shame
AuthorAnnie Ernaux
ISBN1583220186
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction...
Black Badge Vol. 1
AuthorMatt Kindt
ISBN1684153530
An espionage series about a top-secret, elite branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions.

Meet the Black Badges, a top-secret branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions that no adult ever could. Among their organization, the Black...
The Man Jesus Loved
AuthorTheodore W. Jennings Jr.
Homosexuality has been at the forefront of debate in the church for the last quarter century, with biblical interpretation at its heart. In The Man Jesus Loved, Jennings proposes a gay affirmative reading of the Bible in the hope of respecting the integrity of these texts and making them more clear as...
Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World
AuthorEmmanuel Y. Lartey
ISBN1620329735
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In today's world the challenge of care is how to respond to people's emotional as well as their economic circumstances. How can we be respectful of the individual and the community in ways that affirm both? How are we to live respectfully with difference and ambiguity? Where shall...
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