Recommended Books List – short format

The books are listed in alphabetical order of title, all on one page (unless there are more than 999). This is a very short format, with only the title (including subtitle if there is one), author(s) and date given. For a more detailed list, click here.

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119: My Life As a Bisexual Christian (2016)

An Acceptable Sacrifice?: Homosexuality and the Church (2007)

Aliens in the Household of God: Homosexuality and Christian Faith in South Africa (1997)

Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism (2009)

Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth (2012)

Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships (2013)

The Bible, the Church and Homosexuality (2005)

Biblical Ethics & Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture (1996)

A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community (2017)

Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (2019)

Body Theology (1992)

The Book of Queer Prophets: 24 writers on sexuality and religion (2020)

Broken Hearts and New Creations: Intimations of a Great Reversal (2010)

Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity (2017)

Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBTQ Christians with Response to Critics (2017)

Christian Faith and Gender Identity: An OtherWise Reflection Guide (2019)

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (2010)

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (2015)

A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality (2004)

Closet Devotions (1998)

Coming In: Gays & Lesbians Reclaiming the Spiritual Journey (2006)

Coming Out as Parents: You and Your Homosexual Child (1996)

Coming Out as Sacrament (1998)

Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (2003)

Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step (1999)

Coming Out through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia (2009)

Coming Out to God: Prayers for Lesbians and Gay Men, Their Families and Friends (1991)

Coming Out to Parents: A Two-way Survival Guide for Lesbians and Gay Men and Their Parents (1993)

Coming Out While Staying in: Struggles and Celebrations of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals in the Church (1996)

Courage to Love: An Anthology of Inclusive Worship Material (2002)

Covenant and Calling: Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Relationships (2014)

The Cross in the Closet: One Man's Abominable Quest to Find Jesus in the Margins (2012)

Daring to Speak Love’s Name: A Gay and Lesbian Prayer Book (1992)

Dazzling Darkness: Gender, Sexuality, Illness and God (2012)

Dirt, Greed and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today (2001)

Disclosures: Conversations Gay and Spiritual (2005)

Easter (2000)

Equal Rites: Lesbian and Gay Worship, Ceremonies, and Celebrations (1995)

The Erotic Contemplative: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey of the Gay/Lesbian Christian (2021)

Escaping from Fundamentalism (1984)

The Ethics of Sex (2001)

Exchanging the Truth of God for a Lie: One Man's Spiritual Journey to Find the Truth About Homosexuality (2009)

The Exuberant Church: Listening to the Prophetic People of God (2011)

Face to Face: Gay and Lesbian Clergy on Holiness and Life Together (2006)

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality (2003)

“For I Am Wonderfully Made”: Texts on Eastern Orthodoxy and LGBT Inclusion (2016)

From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ (2012)

Gay and Lesbian Rights: A Question – Sexual Ethics or Social Justice? (1996)

Gay and Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions with Critical Difference (2003)

The Gay Gospels: Good News for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People (2011)

Gay Male Christian Couples: Life Stories (1997)

Gay Theology without Apology (2009)

Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church (2001)

God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships (2014)

God Doesn’t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian (2018)

God, Sex, and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies (2004)

God’s Beloved Queer: Identity, Spirituality, and Practice (2019)

Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson (2006)

The Gospel of Inclusion: A Christian Case for LGBT+ Inclusion in the Church (2019)

The Grace of Coming Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Struggle for Justice. (1995)

Hearts & Minds: Talking to Christians About Homosexuality (2014)

Holy Censorship or Mistranslation?: Love, Gender and Sexuality in the Bible (2021)

Holy Love: A Biblical Theology for Human Sexuality (2019)

Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective (2004)

Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches (1999)

Homosexuality and Religion (2013)

The Homosexuality Debate: Faith Seeking Understanding (2003)

Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate (1994)

Humane Christianity: Arguing with the Classic Christian Spiritual Disciplines in the Light of Jesus of Nazareth (2005)

Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics (2007)

In the Eye of the Storm (2008)

Indecent Theology (2002)

The Intimate Connection: Male Sexuality, Masculine Spirituality (1988)

Introducing Body Theology (1998)

The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (1997)

Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto (1994)

Just Good Friends: Towards a Lesbian and Gay Theology of Relationships (1995)

Just Love: A Journey of Self-Acceptance (2018)

Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (2006)

Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa (2019)

The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement: Campaigning for Justice, Truth and Love (1998)

Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (2013)

Liberation Theology and Sexuality (2017)

Living It Out: A Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Christians and Their Friends, Families and Churches (2009)

Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (2009)

Love Lost in Translation: Homosexuality and the Bible (2013)

Loving Men: Gay Partners, Spirituality, and AIDS (1998)

The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament (2003)

The Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe (1996)

Memories of Bliss: God, Sex and Us (2003)

Moral Panic: Exposing the Religious Right's Agenda on Sexuality (1995)

More Perfect Union: Understanding Same-Sex Marriage (2014)

More Than Welcome: Learning to Embrace Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in the Church (1999)

A New Kind of Christianity: Ten questions that are transforming the faith (2010)

The New Testament and Homosexuality: Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate (1984)

No Ordinary Child (2013)

On Being Liked (2003)

One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins (2019)

Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (2006)

OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation (2019)

Our Selves, Our Souls, and Bodies: Sexuality and the Household of God (1996)

Our Witness: The Unheard Stories of LGBT+ Christians (2017)

Out on Holy Ground: Meditations on Gay Men's Spirituality (2000)

Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith (2018)

Outspoken: Coming Out in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (2011)

The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender (2017)

People of Passion: What the churches teach about sex (1997)

Permanent, Faithful, Stable: Christian Same-Sex Marriage (2012)

A Place at His Table: A Biblical Exploration of Faith, Sexuality, and the Kingdom of God (2019)

Pleasure, Pain & Passion: Some Perspectives on Sexuality and Spirituality (1993)

The Possibility of Difference: A Biblical Affirmation of Inclusivity (2018)

Pushing at the Frontiers of Change: A Memoir of Quaker Involvement with Homosexuality (2012)

Queer and Indecent: An Introduction to the Theology of Marcella Althaus Reid (2021)

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The Queer Bible Commentary (2015)

The Queer God (2004)

Queer Holiness: The Gift of LGBTQI People to the Church (2022)

Queer Preaching & Exegesis for Revolution & Resistance: Collected Sermons, Bible Commentaries, & Liturgies of Donovan Ackley III (2021)

Queer Theologies: The Basics (2019)

Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know about Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (2017)

Queering Wesley, Queering the Church (2021)

Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology (2011)

Rainbow in the Word: LGBTQ Christians’ Biblical Memoirs (2017)

Raising Abel: The Recovery of Eschatological Imagination (2010)

Reasonable and Holy: Engaging Same-Sexuality (2009)

Reclaiming the Sacred [2nd edition]: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture (2013)

Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (2021)

Religion is a Queer Thing: A Guide to the Christian Faith for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People (1997)

Reluctant Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith from Homophobia to Christian Love (1997)

The Right True End of Love: Sexuality and the Contemporary Church (2005)

Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible (2021)

Same-sex Unions: Stories and Rites (2004)

Science, Scripture, and Homosexuality (2002)

Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships (2018)

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (2015)

Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics (1997)

Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation (2006)

Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology (2016)

Sex With God: Meditations on the sacred nature of sex in a post-purity-culture world (2020)

Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (1999)

Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God (1999)

Shameless: A sexual reformation (2019)

Singing for Our Lives: Positively Gay and Christian (1997)

Sodomy: A History of a Christian Biblical Myth (2014)

Space for Grace: creating inclusive churches (2008)

Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice (1989)

A Special Illumination: Authority, Inspiration and Heresy in Gay Spirituality (2017)

Strangers and Friends: A New Exploration of Homosexuality and the Bible (1995)

Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches (2006)

Theology and Sexuality: Classic and Contemporary Readings (2001)

A Theology of Desire: Meditations on intimacy, consummation, and the longing of God (2019)

Thinking Again About Marriage: Key theological questions (2016)

This Far by Grace: A Bishop's Journey Through Questions about Homosexuality (2003)

This Is My Body: Hearing the Theology of Transgender Christians (2016)

A Time to Embrace: Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics (2006)

Towards a Theology of Same-Sex Marriage: Squaring the Circle (2020)

Trans Affirming Churches: How to Celebrate Gender-Variant People and Their Loved Ones (2020)

Trans/formations (2013)

Transfaith: A Transgender Pastoral Resource (2018)

Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians (2018)

Transgender. Christian. Human. (2019)

Unashamed: A Coming-Out Guide for LGBTQ Christians (2019)

UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality (2016)

Uncommon Calling: A Gay Christian's Struggle to Serve the Church (1988)

Unconditional: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs-Christians Debate (2013)

Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, and Living Free from Shame (2019)

Unheard Voices (2001)

Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith (2019)

We Were Baptized Too: Claiming God's Grace for Lesbians and Gays (1996)

What the Bible Really Teaches: A Challenge for Fundamentalists (2004)

Where True Love Is: An Affirming Devotional for LGBTQI+ Christians and Their Allies (2017)

Witness: Gay and Lesbian Clergy Report from the Front (1999)