Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
10 best books like Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America (Mel White): What's So Amazing About Grace?, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, Heretics Anonymous, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World, The Virgin Cure, Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir, Speaking of Faith, Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Original Cover Edition for ISBN 0310245656
In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, ' I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night,...
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
| Author | Simon Wiesenthal |
| ISBN | 0805210601 |
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying SS man. Haunted by the crimes in which he'd participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--& obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion &...
| Author | Katie Henry |
| ISBN | 0062698877 |
Michael is an atheist. So as he walks through the doors at St. Clare’s—a strict Catholic school—sporting a plaid tie, things can’t get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class, Michael thinks he might have...
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
| Author | Mark Manson |
| ISBN | 1463750358 |
Whether you like it or not, we live in a world where men are seriously screwed up. From the early childhood we are being taught to please women. Most of us don’t have a healthy male role model to follow, our fathers are distraught and generally don’t care about their heritage. This is especially true...
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
| Author | Alan Downs |
| ISBN | 0738210617 |
The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexuality, and, encouragingly, unprecedented acceptability in society. Yet despite the progress of the recent past, gay men still find themselves asking, "Are we really better off?" The inevitable byproduct...
| Author | Ami McKay |
| ISBN | 0676979564 |
From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City.
"I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin...
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
| Author | Jeff Chu |
| ISBN | 0062049739 |
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America is part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.
The quest to find an answer is at the heart of...
| Author | Mark Doty |
| ISBN | 0060928050 |
The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor and, perhaps most importantly, he is deeply in love with his partner of many years, Wally Roberts. The harmonious existence...
| Author | Krista Tippett |
| ISBN | 0670038350 |
The host of public radio’s Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today Krista Tippett is the creator and host of public radio’s phenomenally popular program Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. As a journalist...
| Author | Jack Bartlett Rogers |
| ISBN | 0664229395 |
In a powerful new book, evangelical theologian and former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Jack Rogers argues unequivocally for equal rights in the church and in society for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Throughout history, he observes, Christianity has moved...
The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm
| Author | Harold S. Kushner |
| ISBN | 1400033357 |
Another "damp, drizzly November in my soul" (Melville, Moby-Dick), and I've just come from another funeral. No, it's September, and the Twenty-Third Psalm that I heard this morning sounded different from the same psalm routinely recited at Jewish burials. Thank you, Harold Kushner.
Years...
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
| Author | Matthew Vines |
| ISBN | 1601425163 |
As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some-day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he’d been taught, condemned gay...
Mark Manson on Self-Knowledge
This short ebook is a compilation of three long articles. But, since it's free to download for anyone, I won't complain about that at all (as I did about other books which you had to pay for, but still offered nothing that was not findable on the author's site).
The first article is about emotions and...
The Nerd's Guide to Being Confident
It's not a good sign when I call it quits in the middle of a 2 hour audiobook that I'm listening to at 2x speed while cleaning the house... In other words, this was background chatter, and it was such annoying bullshit that actually made me delay my next load of laundry just so I could turn it off, "review" it,...
She thought they’d never find her. And then her daughter vanished.
Marisa Vega’s life as an adoptive mom in a tiny Mexican village isn’t what she’d dreamed while growing up in New York, but as the target of a man who’s convinced she stole millions of dollars from his financial firm,...
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
| Author | Garrard Conley |
| ISBN | 0735213461 |
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding.
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.
When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old...
Big trouble can come in little packages.
Former FBI agent Garrison Kopp suspected his teenage son was in trouble, but a midnight summons to the ER after an overdose reveals the problem is more serious than he thought. Desperate to get his son away from negative influences, he asks a friend...
The Global Refugee Crisis: Fleeing Conflict and Violence
| Author | Stephanie Sammartino McPherson |
| ISBN | 1541552628 |
According to a UN tally, more than 1 million people fled violence and persecution in 2015. Of these, more than half were children. Thousands died along the way. The Syrian civil war as well as armed conflicts in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and the Central African Republic contributed to the...
