Someone Tweeted a link to this piece this morning:

Confessions of a Former Gay Rights Leader

Warning: Not a politically correct piece. At all. Really interesting, though.

Excerpt:

It turned out, after I left YGA and my relationship, what was really bothering me was homosexuality itself.

It’s not popular to say that, especially when you’re a gay rights “pioneer” (or so some people called me; I never tried to see myself as such, though I didn’t exactly turn down the accolades). It’s not a popular thing at all. It’s more popular to say you’ve committed a crime than to say – as a gay person – that you might have a problem with homosexuality.

That gets labeled “internal homophobia.”

Well, I knew all about internal homophobia, having read up, studied, volunteered for Gay & Lesbian National Hotline counseling sessions with random people, having interviewed and “empowered” over 1,000 young people in 38 states and four Canadian provinces, and even Zagreb, Croatia, about the importance of overcoming internal homophobia. It was not news to me at all.

Then again, it wasn’t internal homophobia that caused my so-called “hatred” of my own homosexuality.

It was God.

I don’t know how much of my “summer” I’m actually going to get to dictate. And I don’t know if I’m going to have any money to spend on books after two weeks in Ecuador/without husband’s income, so I’m going to call this my Ideal Summer Reading List.

Sun Stand Still
by Pastor Steven Furtick

“In Sun Stand Still, Steven Furtick challenges you to believe that the audacious faith that we see in the Bible, the faith that caused a man to pray and see the sun stand still in the sky, is the same faith we can claim for ourselves today.” 

I’m down for that.

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Erasing Hell
by Pastor Francis Chan

“With a humble respect for God’s Word, Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle address the deepest questions you have about eternal destiny. They’ve asked the same questions. Like you, sometimes they just don’t want to believe in hell. But as they write, ‘We cannot afford to be wrong on this issue.’”

Too true. I like Francis Chan.

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The Heavenly People
by Eugene Bach and Brother Zhu

“Go underground into the world of Brother Yun, the Chinese house church, and the Back to Jerusalem Movement.” 

I’m always interested in the latest from Brother Yun/Back to Jerusalem.

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What’s on your reading list – realistic or ideal – this summer?