Surveying the breadth of the political and theological spectrum, from the most conservative viewpoints to the most liberal, he tries to distill what the diverse followers of Christ believe about homosexuality and to understand how these people who purportedly follow the same God and the same Scriptures have come to hold such a wide range of opinions. The quest to find an answer propels Chu on a remarkable cross-country journey to discover the God “forbidden to him” because of his sexuality. As a journalist and a believer, Chu knew that he had to get to the heart of a question that had been haunting him for years: Does Jesus really love me? When Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried.
In this timely work-part memoir, part investigative analysis-a prize-winning writer explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America. Does Jesus Really Love Me? deserves to be widely read.” -Dan Savage, New York Times Book Review people is tearing Christian denominations apart. captures the fractures and conflict at a moment when the issue of what to do with L.G.B.T.
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