{"product_id":"seduced-by-grace-contemporary-spirituality-gay-experience-and-christian-faith-paperback","title":"Seduced By Grace: Contemporary spirituality, Gay experience, and Christian faith - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Bernard Kelly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'You have seduced me, Lord, and I have let myself be seduced...'\u003c\/em\u003e Jeremiah 20:7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these collected writings from 1998 to 2004, Michael Bernard Kelly invites us into an intimate exploration of the inner wisdom and radical challenge of Christianity. In reflections that take us from the fields of Nicaragua to New York and the 'War on Terror'; from the joy of erotic pleasure to the challenge of cleansing the church of homophobia, Kelly gives voice to a spirituality of desire grounded in justice and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Kelly writes with great precision and poignancy of a yearning which everyone shares. A yearning for love, both physical and spiritual. A yearning for completion... - \u003cem\u003eFiona Capp\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA potent collection of thoughtful writings ... that are at once an acutely accurate critique of the shortcomings of the Church and a poignant testimonial to the heroic spirit that has, at times, invigorated it... - \u003cem\u003eVictor Marsh\u003c\/em\u003e, White Crane Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter in this book is an invitation. Its thoughts and stories carry you over and over again into a deeper place... - \u003cem\u003eRev Dorothy McRae-McMahon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the passionate dispatches of a reporter from one of the most hostile - for gay men and women - regimes on earth: the Catholic church. Michael Kelly has come out but stayed in. His indictment of the church is stark but his vision of what it might become has the power to move even hardened atheists... - \u003cem\u003eDavid Marr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42159857172615,"sku":"9780645193527","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/61c76a2c785be54e2a0fed828dd37347.webp?v=1733269731","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/seduced-by-grace-contemporary-spirituality-gay-experience-and-christian-faith-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}