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Meet Charity; young, lesbian, Christian, in a happy relationship with Katy and disturbed by her church's attitude to LGBTQI people after taking part in its national conference.
Through regular conversations in the local café with her supportive minister, Charity shares her experiences, and gains new insights and confidence about her identity and role in her local church. She learns that interpretations and translations of so-called anti-homosexual key Bible texts are recent, wrong and don't cover loving committed adult same sex relationships.
Importantly, after studying research on how people adopt new ideas with her minister, Charity learns that people can change their mind and their attitudes, but that this happens at different paces for different people.
This non-fiction novel also includes:a glossary of terms associated with LGBTQI topics
a liturgy - Recapturing the Flame
a list of rainbow resources for LGBTQI people and their families
four reflections preached by the author
a 'coming out' poem, and
a Baby Thanksgiving and Naming
You're invited to join Charity on her journey of discovery.
About the author
Susan is no stranger to being 'other' as she's negotiated faith and gender issues. Her writing has been honed as a teacher, spiritual director, supervisor and minister. She's completed a doctorate in theology too. Susan's agile, spacious mind engages respectfully with diverse beliefs and opinions, distilling complex ideas, making change accessible. Life feels possible, hopeful after conversations with her, both in and out of coffee shops. She brings a gentle, quirky sense of humour to her writing Like the previous two books in Susan's coffee shop conversations trilogy, here is integrated years of church study, scholarly observation, struggle and no small measure of pain, undergirded by authenticity, deep faith, and a sense of the numinous.
