The Courage To Be Queer [Hardcover]

God is Queer. In a world of normative paradigms, God will never fit in and nor should we. That twitching and itching for something more will consistently be present until we step out of our closets and into the Queer. The Courage to Be Queer is about the wildness and beauty of an indescribable and uncontainable God. What is the Queer calling us to be? We are to be the ones shouting for justice. We are to be the ones dancing for freedom. We are to be the ones dreaming for hope. We are to be the ones . . . In the midst of the spectacle of it all, there will be those observers who hear the knocking and lean in. Will you open the door? Jeff Hood is a dear prophet of Holy Truth, and this book has solidified that for me. --Sister Liz Colver, Rostered Deaconess (Lutheran - ELCA) This is a bold intervention into status-quo versions of Christianity. Hood enacts a radical queer politics of hope that affirms the power of relational difference and challenges readers to create new forms of inclusive communities grounded in transformational love. --AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women's Studies, Texas Woman's University What a rich story there is in this book! Surely the queering of Jeff Hood can introduce us to a queer theology that can queer us all. --Jane Spahr, Presbyterian Pastor, Activist and Theologian (PCUSA) Hood masterfully challenges us to examine the sea of sameness we immerse ourselves in and leave our closets of conformity. We will need to read this book again and again in our journey to embrace the abundance of God's queerness within. --Michelle Stafford, Transgender Education Network of Texas This book has the power to speak life to dry bones. It is a salvific word. Hood courageously sounds a clarion call for all persons to declare their difference as holy. For to be holy, is to be queer. --Kyndra D. Frazier, Alliance of Baptists Prepare to have the dust shaken off of your religion. The Courage to Be Queer opens the tent of God's love to evelÃ'