Choosing Love
What LGBTQ+ Christians Can Teach Us All About Relationships, Inclusion, and Justice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 September 2025
- ISBN 9780197776513
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 229x155x22 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 634
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Short description:
Drawing on participant observation and more than 100 interviews, Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin show how many LGBTQ+ Christians and their heterosexual/cisgender allies are working to make their families, churches, and communities more inclusive, loving, and just.
MoreLong description:
What does the battle between conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ people look like from the vantage point of those who are both?
If a culture war is happening, LGBTQ+ conservative Christians are on the front lines. While many people assume LGBTQ+ people have to say goodbye to the religions they grew up with, and many do, others occupy the intersection of LGBTQ+ existence and conservative Protestantism. Choosing Love shows what happens when two identities that seem diametrically opposed--conservative Christian and LGBTQ+--are joined together within one person.
Drawing on participant observation conducted within organizations for LGBTQ+ Christians and on more than 100 interviews with LGBTQ+ Christians, former Christians, and allies--especially Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color--Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin show how a number of LGBTQ+ Christians and their heterosexual/cisgender allies are working to make their families, churches, and communities more inclusive, loving, and just. In telling their stories, Choosing Love shares lessons about what it means to be human, relational beings who need mutual connection to thrive. These stories expose the brutality of treating shame as a special sacrament for LGBTQ+ people and the toxicity of treating a particular construction of gender as sacred. They teach us the difference between arrogance and relational pride, and that humility is the core of true allyship. Finally, they offer contemporary examples of the radical potential of love in movements for social justice.
Written in an approachable style and drawing from such diverse sources as Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Black/Third World feminism, and queer thinkers of color, Choosing Love is for anyone interested in the centrality of relationships in human life, the place of love in the struggle for justice, and the need for justice in any effort to love.
Choosing Love offers thick description based on participant-observation of the inner worlds of LGBTQ+ Christians from conservative backgrounds. It probes the psychological-spiritual dynamics that are created at this so-often-so-painful intersection, describes individuals and organizations working to bring constructive change, and in the end modestly but clearly charts at least key hallmarks of a constructive path forward. I know this subculture pretty well, and I can say confidently that this research rings true and matters deeply.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Love and Relationships
Chapter 2: The Complementarian Commandment
Chapter 3: A Sacrament of Shame: "I Love You, But Hate Your Sin"
Chapter 4: Healing Through Relationships
Chapter 5: Becoming an Ally
Chapter 6: Inside and Outside the Evangelical Bubble: Productive and Destructive Tension
Chapter 7: Love, Shame, Humility, and Justice
Index
