A review by flyinglilith
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee

5.0

Very important book. Here's my review on the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lillian-daniel/gay-evangelical-writes-a-_b_2136274.html

Torn by Justin Lee: Gay Evangelical Writes A Coming Out Story Your Conservative Grandmother Could Love

"Raised a Southern Baptist, with two loving parents, Justin Lee didn't want to be gay. But when he revealed that he was only attracted to his own gender, the church he loved..."


And here is another review I wrote from another angle:

http://jerichobooks.com/lillian-daniel-but-why-dont-they-just-come-to-my-church/

WHY DON'T THEY JUST COME TO MY CHURCH?
By Lillian Daniel

"I’m a woman senior minister of a large liberal Protestant church in the middle of the conservative Western suburbs of Chicago, where dreams of evangelical mega churches dominate the ecclesiastical imagination. So I didn’t need Justin Lee to tell me that the ex-gay movement doesn’t work...."