God Did Too Make Adam and Steve
God Did Too Make Adam and Steve

Author: Denny Smith

Publisher: Denny Smith Training & Development

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780975895108

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God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve is short and concise yet filled with powerful and thought provoking content. Whether you are accepting of gay people and their families, opposed to the idea of gay relationships or somewhere in between, this book is designed to help readers replace blistering rhetoric with meaningful dialogue and deal with issues in a calm manner. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of equality for same sex couples, after reading this book you will approach the issue with deeper insight, increased understanding and the confidence to engage in meaningful conversation. Although marriage equality is a legal reality in America, a lot of controversy and misunderstanding still surrounds the issue. Many parents and families still struggle, some to the point of severely strained relationship. Wherever families are on their journey, God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve helps parents, siblings and friends of LGBT people to move towards love, support and acceptance. Religious differences still divide us and cause us to engage in heated and sometimes hurtful conversations. This book empowers people to engage in civil discourse in a non-threatening way. Writer Denny Smith brings a traditional background, a public school education, a social conscience, and a parent's love to the controversial issue of marriage equality. This book will lead you to consider... Is Sexual Orientation a "choice" or is it inherent? Is the love between two gay people any different than the love between a man and a woman? Is gay marriage really a threat to the institution of marriage? Is it possible for us to disagree without being disagreeable? Based on personal insight, scholarly reference, scriptural context, God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve confronts ideologues and bashers who would deny legal rights and human dignity to LGBT citizens. It drives a nail, although amicable, through the facade of political and religious extremism that denies that all men and women, regardless of sexuality, are children of a loving Creator. God Did TOO Make Adam & Steve is more than an academic text or social treatise, it is a saga of love and justice that supports the growing belief of mainstream America that marriage is a personal issue, constitutionally guaranteed.

Homophobias
Homophobias

Author: David A. B. Murray

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2009-12-23

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0822391392

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What is it about “the homosexual” that incites vitriolic rhetoric and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? What are the ambivalences in homophobic discourses that can be exploited to undermine its hegemonic privilege? This volume addresses these questions through critical interrogations of sites where homophobic discourses are produced. It provides innovative analytical insights that expose the complex and intersecting cultural, political, and economic forces contributing to the development of new forms of homophobia. And it is a call to action for anthropologists and other social scientists to examine more carefully the politics, histories, and contexts of places and people who profess hatred for queerness. The contributors to this volume open up the scope of inquiry into processes of homophobia, moving the analysis of a particular form of “hate” into new, wider sociocultural and political fields. The ongoing production of homophobic discourses is carefully analyzed in diverse sites including New York City, Australia, the Caribbean, Greece, India, and Indonesia, as well as American Christian churches, in order to uncover the complex operational processes of homophobias and their intimate relationships to nationalism, sexism, racism, class, and colonialism. The contributors also critically inquire into the limitations of the term homophobia and interrogate its utility as a cross-cultural designation. Contributors. Steven Angelides, Tom Boellstorff, Lawrence Cohen, Don Kulick, Suzanne LaFont, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David A. B. Murray, Brian Riedel, Constance R. Sullivan-Blum

101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality
101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality

Author: Mike Haley

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2004-06-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0736931163

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"101 Probing Questions...101 Compassionate and Scriptural Answers " "from"" Focus on the Family's Mike Haley" Almost daily we hear news reports that confirm the acceptance of homosexuality in our culture. Homosexuals are adopting children, appearing as characters on television programs, taking vacations catering to an exclusively gay clientele, and even seeking the right to "marry" their partners. But is this acceptance healthy for society Few topics can raise so many questions so quickly. And for many readers, those questions hit close to home as they learn of the homosexuality of a loved one or close friend. Here are the answers to the most often asked questions about homosexuality, fielded by an expert on the subject...and a former homosexual himself.

Adam and Steve
Adam and Steve

Author: Minister Debbie Williams

Publisher: Xlibris Us

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781984516190

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This book is meant to help you on your journey out of bondage. I will tell you step-by-step how I was able to make this turnaround in my life with the help of the Lord guiding me all the way. It is never too late to give your life to God. The Lord is willing and waiting. Dont let fear hold you back another minute. All things are possible to those who believe. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord (Colossians 3:16).

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

Author: Paul Rudnick

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780822217206

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THE STORY: A stage manager, headset and prompt book at hand, brings the house lights to half, then dark, and cues the creation of the world. Throughout the play, she's in control of everything. In other words, she's either God, or she thinks she is

Dare to Be Human
Dare to Be Human

Author: Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1135840091

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Daniel is 35, successful, a high level professional and an accomplished academic - yet he is also a virgin, who fears that he will spend the rest of his life alone. More importantly, Daniel has existed in an emotional bubble all of his life, and has had no intimate friendships. In other words, he is not fully alive, and seeks psychotherapy because he is haunted by not understanding what is wrong with him. He is attractive to women, yet as soon as a woman tries to get close to him, he runs away. Lacking an inner foundation, he fears that women will annihilate him, like his overbearing mother who abused him as a child. Quite simply, this book is an unprecedented achievement, taking the reader into actual psychoanalytic sessions and sharing with the reader Michael Shoshani Rosenbaum’s dialogues with Daniel, vividly illustrating his pain and struggle to transcend his existential plight. Furthermore, as the author of two sections of the book, Daniel himself provides a rare, insightful view from the other side of the couch, illuminating the challenge and change experienced within the other half of the therapeutic relationship. It is a compelling psychological adventure, fusing together the intimacy of the therapy with an account of the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis over the last decades. Daniel is like no one else, and yet he is everyone, making this book a must for every person searching for self-knowledge, allowing the reader to identify with Daniel and his struggle to become human.

Truth on Fire
Truth on Fire

Author: Adam Ramsey

Publisher: The Good Book Company

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1784986496

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Knowing God truly, experiencing Him deeply. What would it look like to genuinely love God with our head AND our heart? To have a faith marked by right thinking AND right feeling? To know God deeply AND worship him passionately? Too often, Christians act as though these things are at odds with one another. But what if God intends for us to possess a Christianity that is radically committed to biblical truth, in a way that did not diminish the life of the heart, but actually intensified it? Adam Ramsey invites us to engage both our minds and our emotions in our walk with God as we gaze at him until our hearts sing. He sums it up like this: "My hope in these following pages is to paint a biblical portrait of what God is actually like, so that we can gaze upon him together until our hearts can’t help but sing. To behold him in such a way that our daily experience is transformed with a deepened awareness of who it is we pray to, who it is that is with us, and who it is that we are loved by. To let God’s truth set our hearts on fire." If you yearn for God but desire a clearer biblical picture of this God whom you love, or if you have been walking with God for a while now, but your experience of him has become settled or dry, then this book is for you.

Adam and Steve
Adam and Steve

Author: Ellen Frances Dyke

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1475941366

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Kate is apprehensive about meeting her son Joey for the first time in thirteen yearsthe first time since she gave birth to him and relinquished custody to the father, Michael Shaw. Shes invited to Michaels home where he lives with his husband, Stuart Shaw, a restaurant manager. Kate feels a bit uncomfortable, and this turns to shock when she discovers naked pictures of Joey on Stuarts phone. Thinking her son is in danger from a pedophile stepfather, she and her husband, Larry, sue for custody of Joey. For Stuart, the possible loss of his stepson culminates a lifetime of victimization by homophobes, whether it be his mother, classmate, employer, the average man in a bar letting loose after a hard days work, or the judge who decides his familys fate. Michael and Stuart must discover who took the pictures in order to prove Stuart didnt do anything to endanger his stepson and to regain custody of Joey. Stuart refuses to be a victim and demands to be heard, but that could change his destiny. A novel of legal intrigue, Adam and Steve explores the timely subjects of child custody, prejudice against homosexuality, and gay marriage laws as Michael and Stuart face a difficult struggle to maintain their family.

God Vs. Gay?
God Vs. Gay?

Author: Jay Michaelson

Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807001592

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The myth that the Bible forbids homosexuality is behind some of the most divisive and painful conflicts of our day. Michaelson shows that not only does the Bible not prohibit same-sex intimacy, but the vast majority of its teachings support the full equality and dignity of gay and lesbian people.