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Christopher Yuan, Stop Lying about the Participants in the Documentary Pray Away
The documentary Pray Away will premiere in 190 countries and 37 languages on Netflix on August 3rd. Former leaders of the you-can’t-be-gay-and-still-be-acceptable-to-God movement tell stories of their involvement in various ministries and their subsequent remorse and trauma, experienced and inflicted upon others. Pray Away will be seen by millions of people worldwide and it will surely…
Read MorePushing Back on Yuan and Publisher’s Attempt to Censor Review of Holy Sexuality
UPDATE: November 30: Bigger guns directly protested my reviewing on Yuan and other Christian authors. I was depicted by them as a “layperson and a troll,” where as Yuan is an academic. My goodness. One of the book’s five star reviewers has only reviewed a door latch. Do we really want to dismiss the reviews on…
Read MoreOut of a Far Country
Go to this Review on Amazon & Vote “Helpful” at end of the Review At the urging of many Asian Pacific Islander (API) LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) Christian friends, I’ve read and reviewed Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan’s jointly authored book “Out of a Far Country” (WaterBrook Books, 2011). Specifically, within the API…
Read MoreGay Girl Good God
Go to this Review on Amazon & Vote “Helpful” at end of the Review I’ve read dozens of books in the same genre of Christian titles of which “Gay Girl Good God” by Jackie Hill Perry is the latest entry. Perry’s first book is a memoir of her life thus far from “gay girl once”…
Read MoreA War of Loves
Go to this Review on Amazon & Vote “Helpful” at end of the Review Twenty-nine year old David Bennett, an Australian living in the UK, has just released his first book, “A War of Loves” (Zondervan, 2018). Bennett self-identifies as a gay celibate Christian. Bennett states, “Identifying with others in the LGBTQI world can open up…
Read MoreHoly Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story
Go to this Review on Amazon & Vote “Helpful” at end of the Review I understand why Yuan’s work is popular. First, he’s a nice guy and is a great speaker with a compelling story, the kind that Christians love to hear—the classic bad boy, really bad boy, to preacher story. It also titillates us…
Read MoreA Change of Affection—A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption
Go to this Review on Amazon & Vote “Helpful” at end of the Review If you search my Amazon profile, you will see that I read and review books — almost four dozen books, now — in the Christian non-LGBTQ affirming niche. They all share a few similar core messages: homosexuality is sexual brokenness.…
Read MoreThe War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Identity, and Mental Health Collide
Go to this Review on Amazon & Vote “Helpful” at end of the Review Christopher Doyle’s book “The War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Identity, and Mental Health Collide” (Institute for Healthy Families, 2019) is the author’s reaction and response to the past forty-five years of increasing awareness of homosexuality and the desire of…
Read MoreWhere Does Christian Anti-LGBTQ Ideology Come From?
I was reviewing yet another book in the Christian non-LGBTQ affirming niche recently. I’ve now read and reviewed forty-five such books. Beyond the author’s personal story if it is a memoir, they all share a few similar core messages: homosexuality is sexual brokenness. We cannot find the reason for it, but it is likely, at…
Read MoreAnchored Leadership Conference—Letter to Sean McDowell
November 11, 2018 Sean, Thank you for your gracious welcome as I arrived at the recent Anchored Conference in San Juan Capistrano last weekend. I attended to listen and observe. Wanting to be respectful of your event, I intended to follow up with emails with you, and each of the other main speakers. As you…
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