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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Andrew Marin has clearly been called to this very special ministry. His work is pure genius and yet entirely accessible. There is no evidence of patronizing language, nor an attempt to over-simplify what are universally acknowledged as being 'complex issues'.
This book disarms right wing-bigots and left-wing campaigners and simply suggests constructive ways of engaging with people who have a different opinion. It's a clarion call for mutual respect and acknowledges that whilst change of orientation has happened for some people, it is certainly not something the vast majority of gay people ever experience. Such people still need love and support just like any other person struggling to live a life worthy of the title "Christian" in the 21st century!
Brilliant.
This book disarms right wing-bigots and left-wing campaigners and simply suggests constructive ways of engaging with people who have a different opinion. It's a clarion call for mutual respect and acknowledges that whilst change of orientation has happened for some people, it is certainly not something the vast majority of gay people ever experience. Such people still need love and support just like any other person struggling to live a life worthy of the title "Christian" in the 21st century!
Brilliant.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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For everyone except evangelical Christians, the answer is obvious. It's because they hate gay people. For evangelical Christians that doesn't explain anything, because they are quite certain that they don't hate anyone, and certainly not gay people. They really are trying to help.
This is a book by a conservative evangelical for conservative evangelicals. For those outside its target readership, the response may well be (as Andrew Brown has put it in a Guardian "Comment is Free" piece called "Heartbreaking progress"):
"an American book suggesting that gay people have reason to distrust the church, and perhaps the most important thing about them is that they are people, rather than that they are gay. Well, duh."
For those within it, the effect has been almost miraculous, with Andrew Goddard describing it on the Fulcrum website as:
"...a book like no other I know, a book which desperately needed to be written, a book which sadly very few people could write, a book which every Christian - or certainly every evangelical - who wants to learn about homosexuality and a Christian response to gay and lesbian people - should read.... The book is, however, really not ultimately about homosexuality. It is at heart about mission and in particular about what it means to be Christ-like towards a community which Christ's followers have hurt and alienated, towards people we think we can tell the truth about and to but whom we basically do not understand, and towards an important cultural sub-group who have become in many ways our social and political enemies and we are therefore especially called to love."
The fact is that this book seems to be a magic bullet which might, might, change fanatics into human beings, remembering Winston Churchill's definition of a fanatic as "someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." If it is, it will be doing the church an even greater favour than it does to LGBT people who come into contact with the church.
This is a book by a conservative evangelical for conservative evangelicals. For those outside its target readership, the response may well be (as Andrew Brown has put it in a Guardian "Comment is Free" piece called "Heartbreaking progress"):
"an American book suggesting that gay people have reason to distrust the church, and perhaps the most important thing about them is that they are people, rather than that they are gay. Well, duh."
For those within it, the effect has been almost miraculous, with Andrew Goddard describing it on the Fulcrum website as:
"...a book like no other I know, a book which desperately needed to be written, a book which sadly very few people could write, a book which every Christian - or certainly every evangelical - who wants to learn about homosexuality and a Christian response to gay and lesbian people - should read.... The book is, however, really not ultimately about homosexuality. It is at heart about mission and in particular about what it means to be Christ-like towards a community which Christ's followers have hurt and alienated, towards people we think we can tell the truth about and to but whom we basically do not understand, and towards an important cultural sub-group who have become in many ways our social and political enemies and we are therefore especially called to love."
The fact is that this book seems to be a magic bullet which might, might, change fanatics into human beings, remembering Winston Churchill's definition of a fanatic as "someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." If it is, it will be doing the church an even greater favour than it does to LGBT people who come into contact with the church.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This book opened my mind to new ways of thinking about many issues, not just GBLT. How often do we make assumptions about people without bothering to find out the truth? How often do we assume someone is totally for or against us without giving them a chance to simply be human? How often do we take sides unnecessarily? What good does it do?!! A very thought provoking book - read it and maybe some more bridges can be built and there will be fewer pointless stand offs - and not just about the issues in this book.
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