Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
10 best books like Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology (Patrick S. Cheng): Housekeeping, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, Silence, Babycakes, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith, Citizen Illegal, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality
| Author | Marilynne Robinson |
| ISBN | 0312424094 |
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far...
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
| Author | Jonathan Van Ness |
| ISBN | 0062906402 |
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.
The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.
Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing...
| Author | Shūsaku Endō |
| ISBN | 0800871863 |
“Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.”
Japanese Painting by an unknown artist of the Christian Martyrs of Nagasaki.
The...
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0552998796 |
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
| Author | Austen Hartke |
| ISBN | 0664263100 |
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many people—even many LGBTQ allies—still lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender...
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717583 |
From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Christianity that helps you wrestle with—and sort out—your faith.
In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey—award-winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as “lucid, compelling,...
| Author | José Olivarez |
| ISBN | 1608469549 |
In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything...
The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0310351901 |
Your remarkable life is happening right here, right now. You may not be able to see it – your life may seem predictable and your work insignificant until you look at your life as Frederick Buechner does.
Based on a series of mostly unpublished lectures, Frederick Buechner reveals how to stop,...
Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality
| Author | Mark D. Jordan |
| ISBN | 0226410447 |
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...
