Books
All titles are linked to amazon for purchase
- Confronting Christianity, Rebecca McLaughlin
- The Secular Creed, Rebecca McLaughlin
- The Rise and Triumph of Modern Self, Carl Trueman (for serious readers)
- Strange New World, Carl Trueman (condensed version of the book above)
- Developing a Biblical Worldview, C. Fred Smith
- Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next, Rachel Gilson
- Compassion without Compromise, Adam T. Barr and Ron Citlau
- Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction, Caleb Kaltenbach
- Is God Anti-Gay?, Sam Allberry
- Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?, Sam Allberry
- A Change of Affection: A Gay man’s Incredible Story of Redemption, Becket Cook
- People to be Loved, Preston Sprinkle
- Gay Girl, Good God, Jackie Hill Perry
- Born This Way?: Homosexuality, Science, and the Scriptures, J. Alan Branch
- What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?, Kevin DeYoung
- Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan
- Finding Your Best Identity: A short Christian introduction to identity, sexuality and gender, Andrew Bunt
- What God Has to Say About Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves, Sam Allberry
- Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church & What the Bible Has to Say, Preston Sprinkle
- Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World, Gregg R. Allison
- For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body, Timothy Tennent
- Love Thy Body, Nancy R. Pearcey
- Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body, John W. Kleinig
- Transgender, Vaughan Roberts
- God and the Transgender Debate: What Does the Bible Actually Say about Gender Identity?, Andrew T. Walker
- Affirming God’s Image: Addressing the Transgender Question with Science and Scripture, J. Alan Branch
- Irreversible Danger: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Abigail Shrier
- Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity-and Why This Harms Everybody, Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
Guiding Voices
(Read them, watch interview clips on YouTube or simply google them, listen to them on podcasts, follow them on social media, etc.)
Rebecca McGlaughlin
Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill Seminary in London. She is the author of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion, The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims, and Jesus Through the Eyes of Women, as well as dozens of articles with Crossway, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God. Although Rebecca has experienced same-sex attraction since a young age, she is happily married to a wonderful Christian man and has 3 kids.
Read more of Rebecca’s story HERE
Sam Allberry
Sam Allberry is a pastor, apologist and speaker. He is the author of a number of books, including Is God Anti-Gay?, Why Bother with Church?, 7 Myths about Singleness, and What God Has To Say About Our Bodies. He is a celibate Christian who experiences same-sex attraction and writes extensively for The Gospel Coalition and Desiring God. Sam studied theology at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, speaks widely on issues of sexuality and identity, and continues to minister as a Bible teacher and pastor..
Listen to more of Sam’s story HERE
Rachel Gilson
Rachel Gilson is director of theological development at Cru Northeast. She holds a BA in history from Yale College, MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and is working on her PhD from Southeastern Seminary. She is the author of Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next, and her writing has been featured in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God, among other places. Like Rebecca McGlaughlin, Rachel has primarily experienced same-sex attraction throughout her life. She engaged in same-sex relationships before coming to faith in Christ as a student at Yale.
“The truth is, even 10 years into my marriage, when I experience attraction to someone other than my spouse, that person is female. Still, my marriage has been a place of joy and healing. When people ask me my orientation, my most honest answer is “married”—with the same blessings and burdens of other married believers, and with the same source of hope and power, the Holy Spirit.”
-Rachel
Read more of Rachel’s powerful story HERE.
Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie Hill Perry is a author, poet, bible teacher and hip-hop artist whose latest album, Crescendo, released in May 2018. Since becoming a Christian, she has been compelled to use her speaking and teaching gifts to share the light of the gospel of God as authentically as she can. She is the author of Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been, and the bible study “Jude: Contending for the Faith in Today’s Culture”. She is married to Preston and has three girls, Eden, Autumn, Sage and one son, August.
Watch Jackie’s testimony, “Leaving Homosexuality and Finding Forgiveness,” HERE
Carl Trueman
Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He is a contributing editor at First Things, Crossway, and The Gospel Coalition, as well as an esteemed church historian, and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Trueman has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including *The Creedal Imperative, Luther on the Christian Life, Histories and Fallacies, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, and Strange New World. He is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and one of the leading voices on faith and culture in our day.
Watch Dr. Trueman speak on “Obsession with Self-Identity, Sexuality, and Rewriting History” HERE
Christopher Yuan
Christopher Yuan graduated from Moody Bible Institute, has an MA in biblical exegesis from Wheaton College Graduate School, and a DMin from Bethel Seminary in Minnesota. His speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He speaks at conferences, on college campuses, and in churches. He has co-authored with his mother their memoir, Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope (100,000 copies sold and now in seven languages). He is also the author of Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Christopher graduated from Moody Bible Institute in 2005 and received a master’s in biblical exegesis in 2007 and a doctorate of ministry in 2014. Dr. Yuan’s newest book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story, was named 2020 Book of the Year for Social Issues by Outreach Magazine. Dr. Yuan’s life was trasnformed by Christ after spending years engaging in a homosexula lifestyle, contracting HIV, and being imprisoned as a drug dealer.
Watch Dr. Yuan share his story HERE
Preston Sprinkle
Preston Sprinkle is a biblical scholar, speaker, podcaster, a New York Times bestselling author, and is the co-founder and president of The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament from Aberdeen University in Scotland (2007), and has taught theology at Cedarville University (OH), Nottingham University (U.K.), and Eternity Bible College (CA). He has written a dozen books including Erasing Hell (w/ Francis Chan), Nonviolence, Scandalous Grace, People to Be Loved, Living in a Gray World, and Embodied. Preston and his wife, Chris, live in Boise, Idaho, with their three daughters and son.
Watch Preston speak on Faith, Sexuality, & Gender HERE
Rebecca McGlaughlin
Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill Seminary in London. She is the author of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion, The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims, and Jesus Through the Eyes of Women, as well as dozens of articles with Crossway, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God. Although Rebecca has experienced same-sex attraction since a young age, she is happily married to a wonderful Christian man and has 3 kids.
Read more of Rebecca’s story HERE
Sam Allberry
Sam Allberry is a pastor, apologist and speaker. He is the author of a number of books, including Is God Anti-Gay?, Why Bother with Church?, 7 Myths about Singleness, and What God Has To Say About Our Bodies. He is a celibate Christian who experiences same-sex attraction and writes extensively for The Gospel Coalition and Desiring God. Sam studied theology at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, speaks widely on issues of sexuality and identity, and continues to minister as a Bible teacher and pastor..
Listen to more of Sam’s story HERE
Rachel Gilson
Rachel Gilson is director of theological development at Cru Northeast. She holds a BA in history from Yale College, MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and is working on her PhD from Southeastern Seminary. She is the author of Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next, and her writing has been featured in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God, among other places. Like Rebecca McGlaughlin, Rachel has primarily experienced same-sex attraction throughout her life. She engaged in same-sex relationships before coming to faith in Christ as a student at Yale.
“The truth is, even 10 years into my marriage, when I experience attraction to someone other than my spouse, that person is female. Still, my marriage has been a place of joy and healing. When people ask me my orientation, my most honest answer is “married”—with the same blessings and burdens of other married believers, and with the same source of hope and power, the Holy Spirit.”
-Rachel
Read more of Rachel’s powerful story HERE.
Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie Hill Perry is a author, poet, bible teacher and hip-hop artist whose latest album, Crescendo, released in May 2018. Since becoming a Christian, she has been compelled to use her speaking and teaching gifts to share the light of the gospel of God as authentically as she can. She is the author of Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been, and the bible study “Jude: Contending for the Faith in Today’s Culture”. She is married to Preston and has three girls, Eden, Autumn, Sage and one son, August.
Watch Jackie’s testimony, “Leaving Homosexuality and Finding Forgiveness,” HERE
Carl Trueman
Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He is a contributing editor at First Things, Crossway, and The Gospel Coalition, as well as an esteemed church historian, and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Trueman has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including *The Creedal Imperative, Luther on the Christian Life, Histories and Fallacies, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, and Strange New World. He is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and one of the leading voices on faith and culture in our day.
Watch Dr. Trueman speak on “Obsession with Self-Identity, Sexuality, and Rewriting History” HERE
Christopher Yuan
Christopher Yuan graduated from Moody Bible Institute, has an MA in biblical exegesis from Wheaton College Graduate School, and a DMin from Bethel Seminary in Minnesota. His speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He speaks at conferences, on college campuses, and in churches. He has co-authored with his mother their memoir, Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope (100,000 copies sold and now in seven languages). He is also the author of Giving a Voice to the Voiceless. Christopher graduated from Moody Bible Institute in 2005 and received a master’s in biblical exegesis in 2007 and a doctorate of ministry in 2014. Dr. Yuan’s newest book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story, was named 2020 Book of the Year for Social Issues by Outreach Magazine. Dr. Yuan’s life was trasnformed by Christ after spending years engaging in a homosexula lifestyle, contracting HIV, and being imprisoned as a drug dealer.
Watch Dr. Yuan share his story HERE
Preston Sprinkle
Preston Sprinkle is a biblical scholar, speaker, podcaster, a New York Times bestselling author, and is the co-founder and president of The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender. He earned a Ph.D. in New Testament from Aberdeen University in Scotland (2007), and has taught theology at Cedarville University (OH), Nottingham University (U.K.), and Eternity Bible College (CA). He has written a dozen books including Erasing Hell (w/ Francis Chan), Nonviolence, Scandalous Grace, People to Be Loved, Living in a Gray World, and Embodied. Preston and his wife, Chris, live in Boise, Idaho, with their three daughters and son.
Watch Preston speak on Faith, Sexuality, & Gender HERE
Podcasts
Episodes
- Is God Anti Gay? with Sam Allberry - The Confronting Christianity Podcast
- Good Sex, Bad Sex and Marriage: Dr. Juli Slattery - Theology in the Raw Podcast
- When Deconstruction Ends as a Miracle: A Testimony - Thirty Minutes with The Perrys
- Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture (Talbot School of Theology)
- TGC The Gospel Coalition Podcast
- The Confronting Christianity Podcast (with Rebecca McGlaughlin)
- Theology in the Raw (with Preston Sprinkle)