Resources for Episodes 026: Sexuality, It’s Sacred: Loving Those Who Struggle with Same Sex Attraction

Below are helpful resources that may help you gain greater insight into the issues we discussed about loving our brothers and sisters who struggle this way. 

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert : An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith by Rosaria Butterfield

The story of a tenured professor at Syracuse University who specialized in Queer Studies and her conversion to Christianity. Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's curriculum. Then, in her late 30's, Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside down--the idea that Christianity, a religion she had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right about who God was. That idea seemed to fly in the face of the people and causes that she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a train wreck at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could.

Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ by Rosaria Butterfield

Read this follow-up to The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert.

Is God Anti-Gay? By Sam Allberry

A practical and sensitive exploration of the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality. It’s the hot topic of the moment. Christians, the church and the Bible seem to be out of step with modern attitudes towards homosexuality. And there is growing hostility towards those who hold a different view. So is God homophobic? And what do we say, and how do we relate to to both Christians and non-Christians who experience same-sex attraction. In this short, simple book, Sam Allberry wants to help confused Christians understand what God has said about these questions in the scriptures, and offers a positive and liberating way forward through the debate.

The Ethics of Homosexuality and the Gospel of Grace by Albert Mohler

A lecture given on clarity amidst confusion on the matter of homosexuality and the Bible.