{"title":"Pride Month","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781596272415-rainbow-theology","title":"Rainbow Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo date, no book has systematically examined the theological writings of LGBT people of color. Nor has any book explored how such writings might actually transform contemporary theological reflections on race and sexuality. This book remedies these gaps by constructing a rainbow theology around the theme of bridging or mediation. \u003ci\u003eRainbow Theology\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to reflect upon the theological significance of the intersections of race and queer sexuality across multiple ethnic and cultural groups. This is particularly important in light of the current polarizing debates over issues of race, sexuality, and religion within churches and communities of faith around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick S. Cheng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356987310335,"sku":"9781596272415","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781596272415.jpg?v=1767928872"},{"product_id":"9781596271326-radical-love","title":"Radical Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives – including feminist theology, black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology – and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one. However, \u003ci\u003eRadical Love\u003c\/i\u003e is the first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this lucid and compelling introduction, Cheng provides a historical survey of how queer theology has developed from the 1950s to today and then explicates the themes of queer theology using the ecumenical creeds as a general framework. Topics include revelation, God, Trinity, creation, Jesus Christ, atonement, sin, grace, Holy Spirit, church, sacraments, and last things, as seen through the lenses of LGBT theologians. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick S. Cheng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356993503487,"sku":"9781596271326","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781596271326.jpg?v=1767928871"},{"product_id":"9781596272385-from-sin-to-amazing-grace","title":"From Sin to Amazing Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the history of Christianity, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT” or“queer”) people have been condemned as unrepentant sinners who are in dire need of God’s saving grace. As a result of this condemnation, LGBT people have been subjected to great spiritual, emotional and physical abuse and violence. This issue takes on a particular urgency in light of the ongoing harassment and bullying of LGBT young people by their classmates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCheng argues that people need to be liberated from the traditional legal model of thinking about sin and grace as a violation of divine and natural laws in which grace is understood as the strength to refrain from violating such laws. Rather Cheng proposes a Christological model based upon the theologies of Irenaeus, Bonaventure and Barth, in which sin and grace are defined in terms of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book serves as a useful resource for all people who struggle to make sense of the traditional Christian doctrines of sin and grace in the context of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick S. Cheng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356993634559,"sku":"9781596272385","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781596272385.jpg?v=1767928872"},{"product_id":"9781640653375-those-seven-references","title":"Those Seven References","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thoughtful analysis of the faulty rationale behind Christian anti-gay bias.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere have been enormous strides toward equality for the queer community in recent years. There have also been regressive local legislative actions seeking to limit those national steps toward equality. Many of those who have led these regressive efforts are individuals steeped in purposeful ignorance, bias, tribalism, and a radicalization of faithful beliefs, misleading their congregations and influencing legislators. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersonhood, the intense value of our individuality, cannot be made less by these few passages of scripture: God’s love for our uniqueness is not compromised by oft misinterpreted verses. Having knowledge and words to counter baseless accusations can disarm those who would use these passages as weapons of exclusion and judgement, and can empower the queer community to live confidently in God’s love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John F. Dwyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356992848127,"sku":"9781640653375","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640653375.jpg?v=1767928834"},{"product_id":"9780898690057-beyond-a-binary-god","title":"Beyond a Binary God","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe, then trans people, like all people, reflect something of God, and not just in the ways that they share in common with others, but also in the ways that they are different. They remind us that God is beyond all of our categories, even gender. In this book, Tara Soughers explores theology from the position of a trans ally—a parent of a trans young adult as well as priest. What does it mean about God and about humans, that there is not a strict gender binary? How can we affirm and include what we have learned about the permeability of boundaries to affirm those whose path does not follow traditional cultural stereotypes, and how might the broadening help us to understand the God who is never two for Christians, but both one and three? What gifts does this broader understanding bring to the church?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tara K. Soughers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356977807615,"sku":"9780898690057","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9780898690057.jpg?v=1767928822"},{"product_id":"9781640656499-queering-christian-worship","title":"Queering Christian Worship","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking collection of writings that place queer ritual at the center of the theological conversation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of essays, leading scholars in queer theology and liturgical studies explore the ways in which the distinctive theological voices of LGBTQIA+ Christians challenge and expand thinking and practice around worship in new directions. This challenge has expanded in the past decades, as obstacles to the full participation of queer Christians—particularly in marriage and ordination—have fallen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into three main parts, the volume begins with an introduction to queer engagement with ritual practices, continues with a series of case studies that examine queer texts and contexts, and concludes with an examination of the horizons of queer liturgical theology and practice. Throughout the volume, \u003ci\u003eQueering Christian Worship \u003c\/i\u003eprovides new imagination and tools to those who study and curate Christian worship across traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edited by Bryan Cones, Sharon R. Fennema, Scott Haldeman, Stephen Burns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356997075199,"sku":"9781640656499","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640656499.jpg?v=1767928866"},{"product_id":"9781640656956-god-gospel-and-gender","title":"God, Gospel, and Gender","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn introduction to what scripture has to say about the dignity of LGBTQ people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this bible study, Episcopal priest and former teacher Margie Baker shows teens how the Bible affirms and supports all of God’s beloved children. Beginning with an exploration of what it means to be made in God’s image and the ways that God is represented with a variety of male and female images and concluding with an examination of how love for all our siblings is central to God’s relationship with humanity, the study encourages youth to see how a thread of inclusion runs through the bible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Each chapter of \u003ci\u003eGod, Gospel, and Gender \u003c\/i\u003eincludes an opening prayer, an activity, opportunities to delve into the biblical text, prompts to respond to the text, and a closing prayer. Designed for use by groups or individuals, this book calls youth to affirm the dignity in every person. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margie Baker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356998156543,"sku":"9781640656956","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640656956.jpg?v=1767928870"},{"product_id":"9781640657953-a-queer-lectionary","title":"A Queer Lectionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom an interdenominational group of preachers and scholars, a queer commentary to address recent concerns around LGBTQ+ rights.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This preaching resource features commentaries on every Sunday and feast day reading in the Revised Common Lectionary from an interdenominational group of scholars and homileticians. Offering queer interpretations of biblical texts, the series will appeal to scholars of queer theology and will support preachers in crafting sermons that convey a message of liberation, rather than one that reinforces the power structures of the world.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Queer Lectionary\u003c\/i\u003e features commentators from a variety of liturgical traditions, including clergy and scholars from the Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Metropolitan Community Churches, and beyond. Written to enable preachers to engage with every assigned text, each volume features sermons that respond to every lesson in each lectionary entry.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Carlson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47357006676223,"sku":"9781640657953","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640657953.jpg?v=1767928884"},{"product_id":"9781640652422-proclaim","title":"Proclaim!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh perspective on how liturgy can support social justice work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProclaim!\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of Episcopal liturgy from a black, queer, millennial perspective, with an eye toward proclamation and justice. Part memoir, part history, part biblical studies, and part practical theology, \u003ci\u003eProclaim!\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that the politics of our liturgical tradition is the ground from which we can engage in the justice work that our world needs. Each chapter explores theology, a biblical story, and the real-world practice of evangelism and mission. The liturgy can serve as the theological well from which we might draw wisdom to engage the issues of justice, equity, and compassion in the world today. The question is not whether or not to engage politics; rather, the question is: whose politics are being reflected? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Furthermore, what shape might our lives take if we took our worship of God seriously? People who are curious about what justice looks like in the Church or who are seeking new resources to sustain their work will be affirmed in Halley’s book. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marcus George Halley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356986360063,"sku":"9781640652422","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640652422.jpg?v=1767928824"},{"product_id":"9781640659599-a-queer-lectionary","title":"A Queer Lectionary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking compendium of sermons that provide queer and inclusive readings of the Sundays and major feasts of Year B in the Revised Common Lectionary. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering work—the second in the series—features incisive commentaries on the Revised Common Lectionary that provide inspiration for writing sermons with a message of liberation. An ideal resource for teaching biblical and queer studies, this volume features contributions from clergy and scholars from a variety of liturgical traditions, including the Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Metropolitan Community Churches, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA QUEER LECTIONARY - YEAR A\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In an era when pulpits pander to power and scrub sermons clean of danger and grit, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueer Lectionary\u003c\/i\u003e dares real life—where our bodies bleed, laugh, grieve, resist, and rise. In a time when the status quo kneels before authoritarian power, these reflections run to meet us, arms wide, full of holy mischief. We need this voice.” —The Rev. Jeff R. Johnson, Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carlson is one more critical voice who is reading and telling Gospel-stories from the so-called margins, embracing his and our 'otherness,' and providing a fresh, bracing take on ancient, universal stories of faith.\" —Rev. Dr. Brett Mitchell, Pastor, La Mesa Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, NM, Author of Practicing Pilgrimage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese pages are filled with stories and queer reflections—at once familiar, strange, and surprising—that remain fiercely rooted in a commitment to proclaim, again and again, the divine invitation to “come and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8).\" —Rolf R. Nolasco, Jr., ThD, Rueben P. Job Professor of Spiritual Formation \u0026amp; Pastoral Theology, and Director of the Job Institute for Spiritual Formation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This Queer Lectionary is a great addition to any pastor's library, containing multiple sermons that address current U.S. situations and relevant queer issues. Accessible and colloquial, you don't have to be an academic to appreciate its profound insights.\" —Rev Lis Valle-Ruiz, PhD, Associate Professor of Homiletics and Worship and Director of Community Worship Life, McCormick Theological Seminary\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Carlson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47357007528191,"sku":"9781640659599","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640659599.jpg?v=1765517302"},{"product_id":"9781640655577-pauli-murray","title":"Pauli Murray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first introductory and illustrated biography of the civil rights icon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe untold story of Pauli Murray, activist, lawyer, poet, and Episcopal priest, who broke records and barriers throughout her life. Friend to Eleanor Roosevelt, colleague to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and student of Thurgood Marshall, Pauli Murray's life was nevertheless not always an easy one. Her commitment to fighting for the rights of women and all places her firmly in history. A celebration of her life and its significance, including the role of gender identity in her own journey. Deborah Nelson Linck's book introduces Murray to children ages 6 to 12.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Nelson Linck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356990259455,"sku":"9781640655577","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640655577.jpg?v=1767928857"},{"product_id":"9781640653658-hearts-ablaze","title":"Hearts Ablaze","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeditations addressing the spiritual needs of queer Christians. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new look at ten selected parables of Jesus, that expands the scope of interpretation of each story to highlight God's extravagant welcome of all people. The perspective in the reflections is deeply personal and written to be used by both individuals and groups. Queer affirming churches, seminaries, and retreat centers will benefit from this resource as they continue to champion the flourishing of their queer siblings in Christ. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolf Nolasco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356996714751,"sku":"9781640653658","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9424\/5887\/files\/9781640653658.jpg?v=1767928836"}],"url":"https:\/\/churchpublishing.org\/collections\/pridemonth.oembed","provider":"Church Publishing Incorporated","version":"1.0","type":"link"}