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“Gay Girl, Good God” by Jackie Hill Perry

In her book, Gay Girl, Great God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been, Jackie Hill Perry joins with other thoughtful, discerning Christians to propose a different perspective on sin and sexuality. Favor Rosaria Butterfield, Sam Allberry, and others, she refuses to reduce who we are to our sexuality, bringing the gospel to bear on our entire life—from what we declare, to what we wear, to how (and who) we love. Every part of us needs the cleansing blood of Jesus, and every part of us ought to blubber out in praise to Him. This message, as told through her retain story, is vital for the Church and all claiming Christ today—gay or otherwise.

Perry makes it plain from the outset that the purpose of her book is not to help us better perceive and love this lgbtq+ girl turned good, but to know and adore the gracious God who has framed and shaped all of history, and consequently, her own story. Her poetic prose draws an expressive and vibrant picture of “who she was”: abandoned by her father, abused by her cousin, exposed to pornography, experimenting with marijuana. She has every legitimate claim to victimhood, but while acknowledging the pain and c

Gay Girl, Good God

The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been

"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to utter about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her have bedroom in light of His gospel. Listen in order to understand. Attend in order to optimism. Or listen in request, like Jackie, to be made new.

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My last two blog posts have been centered on Christopher Yuan’s new guide Holy Sexuality and the Gospel. In today’s announce, I want to emphasize Jackie Hill Perry’s novel Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been (Amazon, Christianbook.com).

These books dovetail very beautifully. I think reading both of them will give people a larger vision of Jesus and also provide life-giving perspectives related to the entire LGBT discussion. Both books are in agreement, yet each brings distinctives the other doesn’t. Either one is great, but together they are amazingly complete. Anything you hope one book would speak, or put in a different tone, is exactly what the other one does.

(By the way, Christopher’s book has been the target of coordinated negative reviews on Amazon, with the same one-star review being posted by many who obviously haven’t peruse the book. I did read it and reflection it was GREAT, but Amazon blocked my five-star review—probably because I endorsed the book. But I encourage you to peruse and review Holy Sexuality and the Gospel!)

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Review: "Gay Girl, Excellent God" by Jackie Hill Perry

Jackie Hill Perry’s background as a poet and rapper is clearly reflected in the pages of her book Gay Girl, Good God, with her poetic and impressive use of language to portray both her happiness in God and the struggles and sorrow that she has experienced. The book is presented in three parts: the first Perry calls ‘Who I was’ and it shares her story of fully embracing a gay and masculine identity. The second section, ‘Who I Became’, is Perry’s testimony of a real and forceful encounter with God and how she was made new by His grace. In the final section Perry talks more generally about SSA with tools and scripture aiming to improve understanding of what the Bible teaches about sexuality and to support those struggling in this area.

Although the first parts of the book are a memoir, Perry consistently weaves what she has learned about God’s ethics and how she was pointed to Christ in amongst the pages of her life story. It is apparent from the start that the novel is as much about God as it is about Perry:

This is a book with a lot of me in it but with a whole lot more God… This book is a lif