GRAHAM: Discovering Images of God

narratives of care among lesbians and gays

Westminster John Knox Press, 1997

205 pages

Christian, lesbian & gay, biography, pastoral ministry, theology

Larry Graham has interviewed gays and lesbians across the country and has discovered a new sense of God at work through all people. These insights bring new images of God that are more true, more faithful, and more deeply connected to the pains and joys of everyone's life.

Graham, Larry Ken

Discovering Images of God

Narratives of care Among Lesbians and Gays

HELMINIAK: What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality

Helminiak, Daniel

What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality

Helminiak, a Roman Catholic priest, has done careful reading in current biblical scholarship about homosexuality. While cautioning against viewing biblical teaching as "the last word on sexual ethics," he stresses the need for accurate understanding of what the biblical "facts" are and concludes that "the Bible supplies no real basis for the condemnation of homosexuality." Using the studies of Yale historian John Boswell (Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, LJ 7/94), New Testament seminary professor L. William Countryman, and others, Helminiak examines the story of Sodom (where the sin was inhospitality), Jude's decrying sex with angels, and five texts-Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, Romans 1:27, I Corinthians 6:9, and I Timothy 1:10-all of which, he concludes, "are concerned with something other than homogenital activity itself." Highly recommended for all libraries.

SCHINNICK:This Remarkable Gift

SCHINNICK, MAURICE

This Remarkable Gift:

Being Gay and Catholic
(Allen & Unwin, 1998)