Reading the Bible Through Queer Eyes: Good News for LGBTQ+ People from Genesis to Revelation

The essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the co-founders of QueerTheology.com. “As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before.It was as if, like Saul, the scales had fallen off my eyes and suddenly I could see what had been there all along.The Bible has always been queer.”When Brian Murphy and Shannon L.Kearns created Queer Theology, the longest-running LGBTQ+ Christian podcast and the online community QueerTheology.com, they defined a new genre in talking about LGBTQ+ identity and faith that has now reached more than 3 million people in over 200 countries across the world and on every continent.Reading the Bible through Queer Eyes encompasses all they’ve learned; it’s the resource they wish they had as they reconciled their faith with their identities.It looks for queerness in sacred Scripture not for the sake of representation, but with an ey