Coming Out to God: Prayers for Lesbians and Gay Men, Their Families and Friends

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Summary: Excellent daily meditation and prayer book
Review: Chris' book is an excellent prayer guide. I foundit very user friendly. Its not focused on anyparticular issue (e.g. AIDS or coming out). It tends to be more mainstream Protestant in content. Excellent book to assist in your daily meditations.

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Summary: Serious and sincere... pity it feels prejudiced to me
Review: On the whole I find its contents inspiring my prayer and meditation. I find it a great pity that, coming from a protestant (I'm a catholic myself) it doesn't explore to the full the "theology of the cross" wich is such a precious jewel of reformed church that the roman church has been redescovering. On the contrary, it sounds at times as inspired by a "theology of glory", an old pecadillo of catholicism if it gets dominant. On reading this book one is aware of the profound suffering of homosexual people (hence why call us "gay" totally depasses my compreension) but one is even more aware that the author is struggling for a right to exist in the city of Man and the city of God, as if it was not our duty do change and as if conversion (litterally turning oneself toward something new) wasn't our main calling as christians. But on the whole I acknowlege the author has a strongly positive attitude and I thank him for it as I am impressed by his earnest will to get intimate with God. Also the author seems to place within the setting of evangelical values the awareness of a need to be healed...and this seems crucial for any man or woman seeking God, homosexual people not less (at least) than all the rest of mankind. Anyway this is certainly a good and usefull reading. Thanks for it