Yes. Yes yes yes.

[eponis]

Resolved, That the 76th General Convention affirm the value of "listening to the experience of homosexual persons," as called for by the Lambeth Conferences of 1978, 1988, and 1998, and acknowledge that through our own listening the General Convention has come to recognize that the baptized membership of The Episcopal Church includes same-sex

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[eponis]

I did read it, actually! It's a pretty light book, but has some very good stuff in it for its length. (One particular point, I hadn't heard before and am slightly skeptical about, but I need to do more research and reading.)

My favorite book so far on sexuality and Christianity is Margaret Farley's Just Love. She goes beyond disproving classic critiques of homosexuality to create a framework of ethical Christian sexuality that's sensible, Scriptural, and genuinely challenging. It's easy to say "srsly, y'all, gay people are okay"; she says "okay, so given the myriad of human sexualities, how can our sexual identities be incarnated with justice and love?" It's fabulous.

[some_kitten]

Yeah, I didn't think it was particularly deep, or anything you haven't really thought about, but it's a good little book for people who have spent their lives being told "Homosexuality is wrong, the Bible tells me so" and address just what the Bible does or does not say, even in a more literalist tradition than, say, I come from.

[hermionesviolin]

Okay, so now that I've added your rec to my GoodReads list, I'm curious as to which book some_kitten was talking about.

[eponis]

I'll look it up whenever I'm upstairs in my library, but I did want to say: you're more than welcome to borrow either of them from me!

(Awesome icon, btw. :-) )

[hermionesviolin]

:) Icon was made by fox1013 during the whole Isaiah Washington & T. R. Knight Grey's Anatomy debacle.