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    Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace
    Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace
    Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace
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    Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace

    By Jarel Robinson-Brown

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    If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story.



    In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay.



    A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSCM Press
    Release dateJul 30, 2021
    ISBN9780334060505
    Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace
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    Jarel Robinson-Brown

    Jarel Robinson Brown is a liberation theologian and an Associate Chaplain at King's College London. Previously a Methodist minister, he is now training for ordination in the Anglican church. He has served churches in Cardiff, South Wales and most recently in South East London. Prior to full-time ministry Jarel studied classical music as a pianist and organist at the London College of Music, and privately in Paris.

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    • 5/5
      It has taken me two years to read this book to completion, having ordered it in paperback the second it was available. Not because it is in any way a subpar text - in fact it is the precise opposite. This book is a serious theological examination of the ways in which Black LGBTQ Christians are sinfully denied respect, grace and equality within the Church.

      It is in depth and well rounded. Father Robinson-Brown is well read from Patristics to popular culture and this is demonstrated throughout the text. While I am not a Black LGBTQ+ Christian, I am a queer, trans Christian, and specifically an Anglican in the Church of England and I can regrettably attest to the Famine of Grace he describes. I long for (and am actively working towards!) the downfall of the White heteronormative Jesus that has led us into this position of anti-Christian bigotry and exclusion.

      This is a challenging text - and it should be. It is reminiscent of both the great Professor James H Cone, and the great James Baldwin. Jarel does not make allowances anywhere for the hypocritical sensitivities of white heterosexuals - and nor should he. This book is not here to support, mollify or pander to them. It is instead written to speak truth to power. It is written to affirm Black LGBTQ+ Christians. It is written in the tradition of Liberation Theology and there is much in it that offers food for thought to Libération Theologians who are not Black or Queer.

      I am so glad for every minute this text has taken me to read it. I think this is one of those texts that I will carry in my soul, and so for that, I can only thank G-d, for the gift that is Fr Jarel Robinson-Brown.
    • 5/5
      An amazing book, compelling, insightful, scathing, and wonderfully orthodox. I loved this book and it made me feel seen

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