One way to show support for the Queer/LGBTQIA+ Community is to make sure their stories are heard. Harmony has compiled recommended reading for you. Titles below range from children's books to bible scholarship and are meant to provide members and supporters of Harmony with the tools needed to better their own experience and/or become the best ally they can be.
Additionally, we would love to hear from you about what resources you might recommend to us. Upon review, your recommendations might be added to our list here! Simply fill out the accompanying form to share your recommendations with us. As we have members around the world, we have provided ISBN Numbers for you to quickly locate print/digital copies in your area. |
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TITLE |
AUTHOR/EDITOR |
ISBN # |
DETAILS |
Spork |
Kyo Maclear |
978-1771388054 |
His mum is a spoon. His dad is a fork. And he's a bit of both. He's Spork! |
Pink is for Boys |
Robb Pearlman |
762462477 |
This timely and beautiful picture book rethinks and reframes the stereotypical blue/pink gender binary and empowers kids-and their grown-ups-to express themselves in every color of the rainbow. |
The Great Big Book of Families |
Mary Hoffman |
803735162 |
This fun and fascinating treasury features all kinds of families and their lives together. |
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy |
Susan Verde |
1419731653 |
I Am Human affirms that we can make good choices by acting with compassion and having empathy for others and ourselves. |
Who is My Neighbor? |
Amy-Jill Levine |
1947888072 |
This creative story is sure to prompt rich conversations, encouraging new ways of seeing our neighbors and ourselves. A note for parents and educators is included. |
Who Counts? |
Amy-Jill Levine |
664262740 |
As young readers count to help the characters find what's missing, Who Counts? teaches that every one of us counts in God's eyes and that everyone should feel counted. |
TITLE |
AUTHOR/EDITOR |
ISBN # |
DETAILS |
The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens & Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity |
Testa, Coolhart & Peta |
9781626252974 (wkbk) 9781626252981 (pdf e-book) |
This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will help you navigate your gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers. |
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out |
Susan Kuklin |
9780763656119 |
A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. |
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church |
Rachel Held Evans |
978-0718022129 |
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals--church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it. |
TITLE |
AUTHOR/EDITOR |
ISBN # |
DETAILS |
Homosexual Saints: The Community of Christ Experience |
William D. Russell, D. Michael Quinn |
978-1934901052 |
"I have always believed that the pathway to understanding the issue of homosexuality is in the telling of personal stories. Decisions about policy and law, whether religious or secular, must first have a human face. Bill Russell's compilation of personal essays - some courageous, some tragic - provides an excellent resource for the dialogue that has only just begun." - W. Grant McMurray, President, Community of Christ 1996-2004 |
Touched by Grace: LGBT Stories in Community of Christ |
David Howard |
978-1934901366 |
Since 2008 and the publication of Bill Russell's "Homosexual Saints," Community of Christ has made significant strides toward full inclusion of its LGBT members. In this sequel, David Howard has gathered dozens and dozens of personal stories and testimonies that narrate the transformation of the LGBT experience in Community of Christ. |
I Cried Silently |
Geraldine J Pittenger |
978-1489723802 |
I Cried Silently is a true account of how one gay man's loving parents worked their way from prejudice and misunderstanding to acceptance and understanding. My husband and I are the parents, and in this book, we share how we met these challenges and gave comfort to a much-loved and talented son who fought the AIDS virus. It's also the story of the people we met who made the extraordinary care team who helped us and our son as he faced the end of his life. |
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church |
Rachel Held Evans |
978-0718022129 |
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals--church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it. |
The Commitment |
Dan Savage |
978-0452287631 |
Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married, but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails. |
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation |
Nadia Bolz-Weber |
9781786221377 |
Nadia discusses sexuality, where it has been and needs to be. |
Tomorrow Will Be Different |
Sarah McBride |
9781524761486 |
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality is a 2018 memoir by Sarah McBride. |
Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms |
Matthias Roberts |
9781506455662 |
Psychotherapist Matthias Roberts helps readers overcome their shame around sex by overcoming three unhealthy coping mechanisms we use to manage that shame. |
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse |
Elizabeth A. Johnson |
824519256 |
This classic explains what feminist theology is and how can we rediscover the feminine God within the Christian tradition. |
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America |
Eric Cervini |
978-0374139797 |
From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. |
Crossing Over: Liberating the Transgendered Christian |
Vanessa Sheridan |
978-0829814460 |
In Crossing Over, Vanessa Sheridan reflects on her experience and the experiences of other in order to describe the realities and dispel the myths about those who are trangendered. She urges the church to move beyond "compassionate condemnation" to embrace trangendered individuals into the full life and ministry of the church. Using tenets of liberation theology, she encourages those who are transgendered to seek sources of spiritual strength and join the struggle for justice in the church and in the larger society. |
Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans* Allies |
Tara K. Soughers |
978-0898690057 |
All are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe, then trans people, like all people, reflect something of God, and not just in the ways that they share in common with others, but also in the ways that they are different. They remind us that God is beyond all of our categories, even gender.In this book, Tara Soughers explores theology from the position of a trans allya parent of a trans young adult as well as priest. What does it mean about God and about humans, that there is not a strict gender binary? How can we affirm and include what we have learned about the permeability of boundaries to affirm those whose path does not follow traditional cultural stereotypes, and how might the broadening help us to understand the God who is never two for Christians, but both one and three? What gifts does this broader understanding bring to the church? |
Transparently |
Lisa S. Salazar |
9780986931901 |
It wasn’t always clear to Santiago Salazar that somewhere inside him was a Lisa that would someday—a long time into the future—show herself to the world. Born in Colombia, Santiago grew up in California and moved to Vancouver in the early 1970s to start a successful career as a graphic designer and photographer. |
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People |
Viviane K. Namaste |
978-0226568102 |
Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people-cross-dressers, drag queens, and transsexuals-and their everyday lives. Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. |
Transgender Journeys |
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott & Vanessa Sheridan |
978-0829815771 |
"No matter how you identify yourself on the wide spectrum of gender--and some people find themselves in significantly different locations on that spectrum from day to day--if you're Christian and you care about issues of gender, transgender, and justice, this book is for you." |
Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit |
Patrick S. Cheng |
9781596272422 |
Addresses issues of homophobia in communities of color, including ethnic churches, as well as racism in LGBT communities. |
Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk, Second Edition: LGBTQ Pastoral Care |
Bernard Schlager |
9780829817065 |
This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in congregational and other community settings. |
Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology |
Patrick S. Cheng |
9781596271326 |
As this first book on the subject of queer theology insightfully argues, Jesus Christ can be understood by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as the embodiment of a love so extreme that it dissolves all existing boundaries. |
A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith |
Anthony Chvala-Smith |
978-0-830917-20-4 |
Author Anthony J. Chvala-Smith writes, “The challenges the church faces call us to bend all our gifts and energies, including our best thinking, to the task of expressing our faith in creative, life-giving ways.” This insightful book into Community of Christ theology will bless readers with uplifting understanding, offered through easy-to-understand writing. |
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