An older woman, unsoothed in grief, meets a young black woman whose fashion business has folded. Together they explore the chances of help through a group of people similarly afflicted by loss, with unlikely sympathies and alliances. In this unflinching study of grief, Thomas Ulrome again presents lives of ambiguity and moral dilemmas.ÿ
Volume 1 of the Woody Back to School Unit saga introduces the reader to the creation of the unit by the Ministry of Extreme Social Rehabilitation to house the nation's most lively and rambunctious Extreme Ladettes. Highlights include the arrival of the new Grand Master, an introduction to the Famous Four (Jojo Heyworth, Nixdown Nixon, Debs Morton, and Rosemary Booker), along with numerous other colorful characters that inhabit the Woody community, the Curious Case of Debs Disgrace, and Ms Lawton's announcement of the Zero-Tolerance Purge of the Mega-minxes known as Operation Scorched Arse.
Armed with only six passages in the Bible—often known as the "Clobber Passages"—the conservative Christian position has been one that stands against the full inclusion of our LGBTQ siblings. UnClobber reexamines each of those frequently quoted passages of Scripture, alternating with author Colby Martin's own story of being fired from an evangelical megachurch when they discovered his stance on sexuality. UnClobber reexamines what the Bible says (and does not say) about homosexuality in such a way that sheds divine light on outdated and inaccurate assumptions and interpretations. This new edition equips study groups and congregations with questions for discussion and a sermon series guide for preachers.
For centuries, evangelicals who read the Bible literally have misused seven verses to convince the world that homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals sinners. Those verses have forced LGBTQ+ persons to live their lives under a cloud of shame and guilt. In Clobber the Passages, Mel White doesn't bother to explain the verses again. That's been done a thousand times. Instead, he blows away that dark cloud by celebrating the truth learned from America's leading mental and physical health professionals. Homosexuality like heterosexuality is just another of the Creator's mysterious gifts. White calls literalists to stop accusing LGBTQ+ people falsely and to start celebrating what they have achieved throughout history in music, science, athletics, politics, the arts, education, literature, the military, parenting, and even religion. Clobber the Passages presents LGBTQ+ people in a healthy new light and leaves that dark cloud of guilt and shame over the evangelical literalists where it belongs.
A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.