Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for gender-queer and transgender people (The Where True Love Is Devotionals) - Softcover

DeWitt Hall, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986408034 ISBN 13: 9780986408038

Publisher: DH Strategies, 2018

Synopsis

Transfigured offers a 40-day exploration of scripture through the lens of a God who is the designer of gender in all it’s magnificent variety. While reading it you’ll encounter a Creator who is both male and female, and come to realize that God’s image and likeness are most fully manifested by gender-queer people.

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About the Author

Suzanne DeWitt Hall is author of the Rumplepimple adventures and the Where True Love is devotional series, and is hard at work on two kids' books about gender. She is mildly obsessed with vintage cookbooks and the intersection of sexuality and theology. Her work is designed to shine the light of love into hearts darkened by discrimination and fear. 

Suzanne lives with her beloved wife, two terriers, and a cat named Chicken. Her life is so full of joy it's surprising her house can hold it all. You can learn more at sdewitthall.com

Review

Devotionals take us to the heart of the matter of faith, what you hold in your hands is a book that not only does that but takes us to the heart of God. Transfigured is a beautiful tapestry of interpretation, experience, and understanding that God is a big-tent God, full of love for all those the Church for so long has cast out. We would do well to heed these words and take them to heart, for the sake of abundant and radiant love, and the sake of God's unfolding future for the world.--Rev. Rob Lee, IV, author of Stained-Glass Millennials

Transfigured delivers an uplifting and much needed affirming devotional for gender-queer and transgender people. It offers comfort and healing as it unravels the truth from deep within the scriptures. DeWitt Hall's 40 day devotional is a worthy addition to any LGBTQI religious studies library.--Cheryl B. Evans, author of I promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child

Along with providing soul-nourishing manna for gender diverse people and their loved ones, these insightful devotions are a gold mine for pastors committed to including gender inclusive references and illustrations in their preaching and teaching.--Rev. Linda Tatro Herzer, author of The Bible and the Transgender Experience

"Transfiguration" means "to change form", but in the biblical account of Jesus' Transfiguration, the truly lasting change is not an external change to Jesus' appearance but the way his disciples see the Jesus they thought they knew. In her aptly titled book, Suzanne DeWitt Hall invites LGBTQ people and others to look with fresh eyes at a God they may have rejected, having been taught that this God rejects them. In a series of scripturally-grounded and spiritually uplifting meditations, DeWitt Hall reveals a God who embodies a variety of identities, who transcends cultural and religious norms of sexuality and gender, and who has always looked at those outside these norms as deeply beloved. I highly recommend this beautiful resource to individuals and groups, who are open to having their vision and faith transfigured, that they too may see the beauty and holiness of God's LGBTQ beloved.--Rev. Daniel Brereton

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About this edition

• Publisher: DH Strategies
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0986408034
• ISBN 13: 9780986408038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 107