HANVEY: Prayed out

God in Dark Places

Columba Press, 2006

119 pages

Catholic, Spirituality, Prayer.

"This book is primarily about redemption and the personal experience of one man who happens to be a priest. It enters the dark world of addiction and existential loneliness." "Prayed Out offers the experience of one man who has discovered his God again in the dark places of his humanity, and other people's, including the experience of being gay and still regarded as precious, loved and even liked by this fast, often elusive God, always having moved on when we think we have found him."--BOOK JACKET.

Catholic, Spirituality, Prayer

O'BRIEN, Glen: Praying From the Margins,

Gospel Reflections of a Gay Man

Columbia Press, 2001

95 pages.

Catholic, Scripture, Spirituality, Prayer, Gay Male

Strongly recommended by Urs Mattman("Coming In"), who lists it among the classics of gay/lesbian spiritual literature:

"A small book, yet large on wisdom"

From Google books:

"Glen O'Brien recounts some spiritual experiences of gay men, and then reflects on these experiences in the light of stories and events in the gospels. In the presence of Jesus to the "sinners and outcasts" of his time he sees a clear statement of God's love and compassion for all peoplee, ansd a context for dealing with the pain that many gay people suffer in their sense of exclusion from the Christian community.

These reflections will be read with joy by some, with concern by others. Hopefully they will make every reader stop and think."