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Good News for LGBTQ+ People from Genesis to Revelation
The essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the Queer Theology co-founders.
“As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before. It was as if, like Saul, the scales had fallen off my eyes and suddenly I could see what had been there all along. The Bible has always been queer.”
When Brian Murphy and Shannon L. Kearns created Queer Theology, they defined a new genre in talking about LGBTQ+ identity and faith that has now reached more than 3 million people in over 200 countries. Reading the Bible through Queer Eyes is the resource they wish they had as they reconciled their faith with their identities. It looks for queerness in sacred Scripture not for the sake of representation, but with an eye toward liberation for all marginalized people.
These readings make familiar Bible stories come to new life, offering powerful and liberatory insights that will change the way readers engage their bodies, their sexuality, and the world in their faith. A few examples of the inspiring multitudes contained in this book:
- discovering a new gay Garden of Eden in a suburban park;
- a connection between Palm Sunday and ACT-UP AIDS activism;
- queer bodies offered as living sacrifices and holy worship through activism, sex, and community care;
- understanding divine covenant through a lens of kink;
- and the story of Doubting Thomas as a reminder of the sacredness of transgender scars.
With more and more people questioning binaries and boundaries, and searching for answers, Reading the Bible through Queer Eyes provides companionship and encourages you to live out your faith in public and transform yourself and the world.
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Praise for Reading the Bible Through Queer Eyes
“A hopeful and necessary book for anyone ready to encounter the Bible again as truly good news.”
—Brandan Robertson, author of Queer & Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table
“The perfect companion for queering the Bible—rich in insight and compassion.”
—Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual
“Bursting with holy wisdom, epiphany and revelation—I went in a skeptic and came out a believer.”
—Namoli Brennet, singer-songwriter
“An intimate combination of spiritual care and scriptural literacy for those on a personal journey with religion as LGBTQ+ people.”
—Malcolm Himschoot, author of Reading Secrets: A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture
“Hopeful, pragmatic, and honest, this is a book that will help reframe conversations about the Bible, queerness, and the mutual care that gives our lives meaning.”
—Kaya Oakes, writer and journalist
“This is a word for those of us who need to move forward, who wonder what our faith might look like once we no longer have to use the Bible as a shield… a perfect companion for the journey.”
—Austen Hartke, founder of Transmission Ministry Collective and author of Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians
“[This book] invites all seekers to understand just how fabulously inspiring scripture can be when we bring our own lived experiences to the party and let all of these texts, very old and very new, very sacred and very sassy, dance together in queerly empowering conversation.”
—Rev. Micah Bucey, minister at Judson Memorial Church
“An absolutely stunning book about finding yourself in the Bible, being your full self out in the world… and how those two things are wonderfully interwoven in the work of building a better world.”
—Paul Thureen, co-creator/co-showrunner of HBO’s Somebody Somewhere
“For anyone who has felt caught between their sexuality and spirituality, this book is a reminder that you don’t have to choose between the two.”
—Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, author of Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging