Gay and catholic book
Writer Eve Tushnet, who says of herself that “being gay and Catholic is literally my job” has written a followup to her 2014 book Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith. In her new book, she writes to other “gay Christians,” urging them to “come and see how the Lord delights in his gay children.” The thesis of Tenderness: A Lgbtq+ Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God’s Extravagant Love,
is that God offers himself and his ardent love to his gay children, and he offers us as gifts to our churches and loved ones—but Christians have made it unnecessarily hard for gay people to trust in God’s tenderness. Thus even—especially—gay people who grew up loving God often need to rediscover him, uncovering his hidden, tender face.
In Tushnet’s eyes, the Church has not been a loving Mother to those she calls “gay Christians,” but rather a “mistress who holds us in contempt and punishes us mercilessly, arbitrarily, and forbids us even to speak what we’ve experienced at her hands.” She wrote her book, she says, with the goal of “alleviating suffering caused by injustice or silence and showing” to her readers “the beauty of
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Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Gender Issues Category (First Place).
In this first novel from an openly woman loving woman and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how gay Catholics can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching.
Eve Tushnet was among the unlikeliest of converts. The only child of two atheist academics, Tushnet was a typical Yale undergraduate until the morning she went out to poke fun at a gathering of philosophical debaters, who happened also to be Catholic. Instead of enjoying mocking what she termed the “zoo animals,” she found herself engaged in intellectual conversation with them and, in a move that surprised even her, she soon converted to Catholicism. Already self-identifying as a lesbian, Tushnet searched for a third way in the seeming two-option system available to gay Catholics: reject Church teaching on homosexuality or reject t
Replacing problems with persons: Eve Tushnet’s modern book, Gay and Catholic
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 14, 2014 | In Reviews
Over the last three days I’ve read Eve Tushnet’s remarkable book, Gay and Catholic. Tushnet, who is now in her mid-30s, realized that she was “gay” in middle school, admitted it to herself at age thirteen, and told her parents shortly thereafter. But while in college she began a different sort of love affair, a strong attraction to the Catholic Church. Without clutching it completely at first, she recognized the moral requirement to be chaste. Ever since her conversion, she has been growing in her understanding of how the particular challenges of homosexuality can be integrated into an authentically Catholic life.
Gay and Catholic is subtitled “Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith”. Tushnet is an entertaining writer with strong Catholic instincts and considerable insight into human nature, including her own strengths and weaknesses. She is widely published and she blogs on the Catholic Channel at Patheos. Perhaps the most im
‘Gay and Catholic’: A Q&A with Writer and Speaker Eve Tushnet
WASHINGTON —This spring, Eve Tushnet wrote an article about the conversion therapy in Catholic spaces. The article, included in the June 2021 issue of America Magazine, cited anecdotal evidence from interviews Tushnet conducted during her research. CNA responded to the article with a distinct perspective on welcoming LGBT members of the Church, supported by our hold research and interviews.
Over the last several weeks, Tushnet and our staff engaged in a charitable discourse about our respective points of view. We invited Tushnet to disseminate her thoughts in an interview with CNA:
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your approach to ministry. How did you acquire your position with America? What prompted you to write your book?
I was born in 1978 and raised in Washington, D.C., more or less secular or Reform Jewish. When I was 12 or 13, I began to realize that the way other girls were talking about boys was the way I felt about a girl in my English class. Because I was raised in a very progressive environment and my parents had gay friends, realizing that I was gay wasn’t traumatic. In fact, it was so
There’s a certain catch-22 in writing about celibate homosexual life. If you note about the joy you find in fidelity to Christ and the Church, you may sound Pollyannish, defensive, or callous toward others’ suffering. If you write about the difficulties, you can be accused of self-pity and masochism. I hope that this book is honest about the suffering that comes with this form of life in Christ but is also quick to note the joys it can bring.
Meet one of the hardest books I’ve been asked to peruse and one of the most important books I’ve read and one that should be a must-read for everyone today.
Being gay isn’t just a hot topic, it’s a hard topic. I indicate, who am I to speak of it? But then again, who am I to keep quiet?
This topic affects us all: it impacts those who face same-sex attraction, whether they’re the ones struggling with it or the people on the sidelines watching and (hopefully) supporting.
So the bigger question isn’t, “What is the inception of homosexuality?” or even, “What is the source of my sexual orientation?” — questions with many doable answers and no definite ones. The bigger a