Study Guides by
Jackie Hill Perry
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Gay Girl, Good God
Gay Girl, Good God is Jackie Hill Perry's honest, unflinching memoir of growing up fatherless, embracing a lesbian identity with her whole self, and then — at nineteen years old, alone in her bedroom — encountering the living God and being made new. The book's central argument is not that same-sex attraction is a simple problem with a simple fix, but that the gospel is powerful enough to reorient every desire toward its proper end: loving God. Jackie refuses both the therapeutic language of "fixing yourself" and the cheap grace of ignoring sin. Instead, she offers a third way — a costly, joy-filled surrender to a God who is genuinely good, and who calls His people to holiness precisely because He loves them.
View Discussion GuideHolier Than Thou
Why don't we trust God? We sing about His faithfulness, confess His goodness with our lips, and yet we quietly live as though He might hold out on us — as though He might not actually have our best interests at heart. In Holier Than Thou, Jackie Hill Perry argues that the root of our distrust is not a deficit of willpower or spiritual discipline, but a misunderstanding of who God actually is. Specifically, we have misunderstood His holiness. We have reduced "holy" to a moral checklist, a synonym for uptight or unapproachable, when in reality God's holiness — His utter "other-ness," His set-apart completeness — is the very thing that makes Him worthy of our full and joyful trust. Drawing readers through Scripture with her characteristic blend of theological depth and poetic honesty, Jackie dismantles our small, suspicious versions of God and replaces them with the awe-inspiring reality: God is not like us, and that is the best news in the world.
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