To the Tune of a Welcoming God, by poet, theologian, essayist, and activist David Weiss, explores the divisive questions of whether and how the church might welcome the GLBT Christians at its doorstep—and already in its pews. Writing with academic training, prophetic passion, and poetic insight, Weiss invites readers to revisit these questions through poems, essays, and hymns that are at once engaging and provocative. While rooted deeply in his own Lutheran context, Weiss’s words reach far beyond, challenging, encouraging, and empowering persons regardless of their particular tradition.
Teachers, students, pastors, and laypersons—whether gay or straight—will find these short texts worthy of long reflection and conversation. GLBT Christians will be empowered to speak with renewed dignity and conviction about their place in the church. Pastors will be empowered to bring this issue more productively into parish conversation. And straight persons, both allies and inquirers, will be empowered to consider the place of GLBT Christians in the church more thoughtfully and to act on their convictions with greater confidence.
Pastor Anita Hill, in her foreword, calls this book a “graceful force,” its words “shockingly beautiful.” For those whose own heart and mind have already been captivated by the tune of a welcoming God, these readings will help put clear words and images to the music already at play in their lives. At times whimsical, sobering, challenging, surprising, insightful, and subversive, To the Tune of a Welcoming God invites the church to sing a new song.
To the Tune of a Welcoming God is published in partnership with Wingspan Ministry of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The author is donating 25% of the profits from the sale of this book to Wingspan Ministry.
For more than twenty years Wingspan Ministry, a congregational ministry of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, has provided pastoral care, educational resources, and prophetic advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. It provided key leadership in St. Paul-Reformation's journey to ordain Pastor Anita Hill in 2001. Today, through resources like this book, Wingspan continues its work toward the full inclusion and affirmation of GLBT persons in faith communities, most especially in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As a congregational ministry driven by church members Wingspan helps St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church model a new way of being church that seeks to include all persons.
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