Gay and Catholic - Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
- Acknowledge your struggles with sexuality AND live in communion with Church teaching
- A much needed, authentically Catholic perspective on a complex situation
- How Catholics with SSA can pour their love into friendship, community, and service
- Written by an openly lesbian and celibate writer
- Come on a conversion journey from atheism to faithful Catholicism
First Place Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award in the Gender Issues Category
In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how Catholics in her situation can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching.
Eve Tushnet was among the unlikeliest of converts. Raised in a secular family, Tushnet was a typical Yale undergraduate until the day she went out to poke fun at a gathering of philosophical debaters, many of whom also were Catholic. Instead of enjoying mocking what she termed the “zoo animals,” she found herself engaged in intellectual conversation with them and, in a move that surprised even her, she soon converted to Catholicism. Already self-identifying as a lesbian, Tushnet searched for a third way in the seeming two-option system available to Catholics with same sex attraction: reject Church teaching on homosexuality or reject their sexuality.
Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith is the fruit of Tushnet’s searching: what she learned in studying Christian history and theology and her articulation of how Catholics who have same sex attraction can live lives of truly fruitful celibacy by pouring their love and need for connection into friendships, community, service, and artistic creation.
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- Supplier:
- Ave Maria Press
- Created Date:
- 2022-08-22
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- Books & Accessories
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- eve tushnet, gay accepting, accepting sexuality, sexuality finding, finding community, community living, living faith, church teaching, friendship community, community service, openly lesbian, lesbian celibate, journey atheism, atheism faithful, fait
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- short_description:
- "Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith" explores Eve Tushnet's journey from atheism to Catholicism while embracing her identity as an openly lesbian, celibate writer. Offering an authentically Catholic perspecti
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- ve, Tushnet shares how individuals with same-sex attraction can find fulfillment in friendship, community, and service while adhering to Church teachings. First Place Winner of the 2015 Catholic Press Award.
Gay and Catholic - Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
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