If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.

Official Web Site for "Black, Gay & Christian"http://blackgaychristian.comOp-Ed''''s/Articles/Excerpts/Updates:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackGayChristian/?Black, Gay & Christian? is a 16 chapter, gay/lesbian affirming, biblically based, spiritual empowerment tool. Over the course of 320 dynamic pages, it provides spiritual direction, motivational support and Christ-centered guidance to practicing Black Gay/Lesbians on how to live proud and fully committed, joy-filled, prosperous, and blessed lives as Gay/Lesbians Christians WITHOUT changing their orientation or sexual practices. In addition, there are two chapters targeted directly towards the Black Clergy and Families on how to reconcile, love and minister to loved ones/parishioners who are Gay/Lesbian.CATEGORIES:Gay Non-Fiction LiteratureAfrican American Non-Fiction LiteratureSpirituality/Inspirational/ChristianReligiousAUDIENCES: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, TransgenderAfrican AmericansClergy/Religious/Christian CommunityORDER OF CHAPTERSI. THE ?BIG PICTURE? OF HOMOSEXUALITYChapter 1: Gay Christianity: ?A Major Blessing Not a Sinful Curse?Chapter 2: Gay Inspiration to Remain Firmly Rooted in Jesus ChristChapter 3: Redefining, Reinventing, and Re-identifying Yourself as a Black Homosexual ?4 Essential Steps to Learn?Chapter 4: Why the Big Fuss Over Being Gay/Lesbian: ?18 Reasons for the Black Church and the Black Family to Discuss?Chapter 5: How to Love and Minister to Someone Who Is Gay/Lesbian: ?8 Steps for the Black Church and the Black Family to Follow?II. CHRISTIAN APPROACHES TO HANDLING BLACKGAY/LESBIAN ISSUESChapter 6: Overcoming the Emotional Pain of Black Gay/Lesbian Guilt ?4 Critical Steps We Must All Take?Chapter 7: Black Gay/Lesbian Dating, Relationships, Sex, & AIDS: ?20 Christian Steps to Follow?Chapter 8: Black Gay/Lesbians in the WorkplaceChapter 9: Black Gay/Lesbian and Raising ChildrenChapter 10: Black Gay/Lesbian and Managing Your Money God?s WayIII. RECONCILING YOUR DAILY CHRISTIAN WALKWITH YOUR HOMOSEXUAL COREChapter 11: Your Personal Relationship with God: A Gay/Lesbian ChoiceChapter 12: Who is Jesus Christ and what is His Significance?Chapter 13: Understanding Sin and Your Daily Life as a Born Again Gay/Lesbian ChristianChapter 14: Unleashing the Power of Prayer in Your Life!!Chapter 15: Understanding God?s Plan and Purpose for his Gay/Lesbian Children.Chapter 16: Standing, Walking, and Running on your Faith!!Official Web Site for "Black, Gay & Christian":http://blackgaychristian.comOp-Ed''''s/Articles/Excerpts/Updates:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackGayChristian/--------------------------------------------------------------------HERNDON L DAVISAUTHOR STATISTICS2004 Media Interviews, Op-Ed''''s Published and Book/Speaking EngagementsTony Brown?s Journal ? Seen on 175 PBS stations in the U. S. and the Caribbean and available to all 21.6 million guaranteed U. S. subscribers of DirecTV (channel 377) and Dish Network (channel 9042) on satellite television. http://blackamericaweb.com/ - 5-7 Million Impressions per monthBlackMenInAmerican.com -The site has a ?reach? of between 10 and 15 million users per day. According to Alexa Internet, the premier Internet Ranking Service, Black Men In America.com is the 5th most popular web site (online community) on the Internet in the Ethnic/African/African-American category. (AURN) American Urban Radio Networks- American?s only African American owned network radio company, reaching an estimated 25 million listeners through 475 stations.Los Angeles Times - 3.9 million readershipSouthern Voice Newspaper - More than 100,000 weekly readers,600 locations.Washington Blade Newspaper- More than 100,000 readers each and every week. 700 locations.New York Blade Newspaper- More than 100,000 readers with each and every issue, 900 locations.Update Magazine-30,000 weekly readers, 300 locationsAdvocate.com -Membership to nearly 300 Yahoo and MSN groups with a total membership and e-mail distribution reach exceeding 7,000 individuals. 2004 Order of Appearances, Interviews and Works PublishedEssays, articles, and book excerpts that I have authored are listed at the book''''s Yahoo Companion site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackGayChristian/My articles have been reprinted in the following websites and publications: Africana.com, BlackElectorate.com, BlackMeninAmerica.com, Operationrebirth.com, UKBlackOut, UKGay.com, Advocate.com, The New York Blade, The Washington Blade, The Southern Voice, Identity Magazine, The Urban Crusader, Exzkyst Magazine. 2004 Radio interviews(AURN) American Urban Radio Networks, news anchor Kim LampkinsWVEE (V-103 FM) Joyce Litttel Show, Atlanta based radio showWHQT 105.1FM, Rodney Baltimore, Miami, FLXM Satellite Radio, 169 The Power, The Otherside, A black gay radio showWVON 1450 AM, The Cliff Kelley Show, Chicago based talk showWASN Talk Radio with Martin Mangleman, Youngstown, OHWHAT (1340 AM), Mornings with Mary, Philadelphia based talk radio showWRFG FM ? Host Betty Couvertier, talk radioWPEG-FM radio station in Charlotte, NCKPFK 90.7 FM , IMRU Radio, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Television and Print InterviewsJune 11-17 - PBS aired my interview on the Tony Brown''''s Journal. The episode was titled "On the Down Low in the Black Church, #2716 " Aug. 1 ? Identity Magazine- Book review at http://www.wctimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=5748June 17- An article written on BlackAmericaWeb.com, which is also coordinated in conjunction with the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning radio show is posted at http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/gay616.This article has been reprinted and broadcast in black news media outlets across the country. October 16 - Profiled in a larger Los Angeles Times article concerning the convocation of Unity Fellowship Church, a black gay church movement.October 31 ? A local cable television guest on the Church of Truth television Ministry broadcast in Pasadena, CA, Rev. Donna Byrnes, Senior Minster.October 7 ? Profiled in the San Diego based Update Newspaper.2004 Inspirational Speaking Engagements/Workshops/Book signingsAtlanta ? March ? Tony Brown Journal InterviewMarch ? Los Angeles, CA ? Book signingApril ? Atlanta ? Book SigningApril-Philadelphia, PA ? Philadelphia Black Gay Pride/Workshop/Book signingApril/May ? Houston, TX ? Houston Black Gay Pride/Book signingMay ? Chicago, IL ? Workshop/book signingMay ? Washington DC ? Black Gay Pride/Speaking EngagementJune- Atlanta ? Speaking EngagementJune ? San Francisco ? San Francisco Pride -Panel DiscussionJuly ? New York City ? Workshop/Book SigningJuly ? Ft. Lauderdale, FL ? Workshop/Book SigningAugust ? Cleveland, OH ? Panel Discussion/Book SigningSeptember ? Los Angeles ? Speaking EngagementNovember ? Los Angeles ? Speaking EngagementDecember ? Houston, TX ? Panel Discussion/Book Signing2005 Inspirational Speaking Engagements/Workshops/Book signingsLos Angeles -February Colorado Springs ? February

Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.

Christian scholars and teachers everywhere are exploring ever more fully the relationship between Christian faith and the various academic disciplines. In this book, leading voices in the Christian academy provide a solid theological foundation for understanding the aims and practice of faith-and-learning integration, especially within church-related institutions, and also discuss some major challenges and opportunities facing Christian higher education in the twenty-first century. --From publisher's description.

Perhaps, after all, the decolonising agenda isn’t extra baggage the church needs to carry on top of everything else. Perhaps, instead, it is the very heart of what the church should be about – disrupting, uncomfortable, and bringing about a kind of ‘holy anarchy’. In Holy Anarchy, Graham Adams points to a realm in which all dynamics of domination, not least in the church, are subverted. It cuts across the loyalties and boundaries of religion and fosters the greatest possible solidarity amongst the different. Urgent and timely, the book weaves together themes around Empire, liberation and decolonial practice with an exploration of the nature and scope of church community, interreligious engagement, mission, and worship.

In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This approach counters the disintegrative norms of anti-black and anti-body traditionalism in Christian sexual ethics, even those that strive to be liberative. It builds upon a tradition of black queer and LGBTQ+-centered critique at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and religion through exploring the moral imagination of sexual and gender non-conformist communities in 1920's Harlem (their rent parties, blues environments, and Hamilton Lodge Ball); ethics and theology blackqueering the disciplines; and contemporary oral histories (including photographs of the subjects by the scholar-artist) of those doing ethics in their blackqueerness. These serve as integrative sites that signal blackqueer ethical counter-patterns of communal belonging, individual and collective becoming, goodness, embodied spirit/inspirited bodies, and shared thriving. Emphases on both personal and social right-relatedness mark a shift from Christian sexual ethics based on rules, toward a communal relations-based transreligious ethics of sexuality.

"The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This international, interdisciplinary collective of authors provides readers with a rare tour of the field in its entirety, expertly navigating thorny debates and the at-times contentious history of gang research, while simultaneously synthesizing flourishing areas of study that advance the field into the 21st century. The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century; anticipating immense changes on the horizon. From definitions to history to theory to epistemology to technology to policy and practice, this unprecedented volume captures the most timely and important topics in the field. When readers finish this book, they will be more confident in what we know and do not know about gangs in our society"--

Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies, Church, and Theological Education draws on the long religious, cultural, and singing history of blacks in the U.S.A. Through the slavery and emancipation days until now, black song has both nurtured and enhanced African American life as a collective whole. Communality has always included a variety of existential experiences. What has kept this enduring people in a corporate process is their walking together through good times and bad, relying on what W. E. B. DuBois called their "dogged strength" to keep "from being torn asunder." Somehow and someway they intuited from historical memory or received from transcendental revelation that keeping on long enough on the road would yield ultimate fruit for the journey.

Same-sex attracted, and non-gender conforming African-Americans are substantial in number, yet underrepresented in the social and behavioral science literature. This volume addresses the issues of African-American LGBT psychology as a case of indigenous psychology. The authors present the research of scholars who are developing theory, practice, and services that are couched within the specific cultural complexities of this population. Some key topics addressed in AFrican-American Issues in LGBT Psychology are gender, spirituality, family, racism, "coming out", generational differences, health and safety issues, urban vs. rural realities, and implications for researchers.

From Jesus to J-Setting details the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty years old. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender, and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle modalities in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual, and religious dynamics play out. Voices in the book illuminate a continuum of decisions-from more traditional (i.e., Black church participation) to nontraditional (i.e., dancing known as J-Setting and spirituality)-and the corresponding beliefs, values, and experiences that emerge under the ever-present specter of racism, homophobia, heterosexism, and for many, ageism. Drawing upon sociology, sociology of religion, black studies, queer studies, inequality, stratification, and cultural studies, Sandra Lynn Barnes explores the everyday lives of young Black people with fluid sexual identities and their everyday forms of individual as well as collective resistance.