Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry
Week 6: The Body — Sexuality, Celibacy, and Covenant
Read the chapters in Gay Girl, Good God addressing the body, sexuality as a gift, and what faithfulness looks like for someone with same-sex attraction — including Jackie's reflections on her eventual marriage to Preston Perry. Key Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:1-9; Song of Solomon 1:1-4; Romans 12:1-2
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Jackie does not spiritualize away the body or treat sexuality as merely a problem to be managed — she takes the goodness of creation seriously, and invites us to think carefully about what faithfulness to God in the body actually looks like.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Jackie is honest that her eventual marriage to Preston was not a "cure" for same-sex attraction — and she is careful not to present marriage as the goal of obedience or as evidence that the Christian life "worked." Why is that caveat so important? What false hopes could be created without it?
2.She presents celibacy not as a consolation prize for those who don't end up married, but as a legitimate and holy vocation — one that Jesus and Paul both model and commend. How has the church you have known treated celibacy? Has it been presented as a gift or a burden?
3.Romans 12:1-2 calls us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices. Jackie reads this as applying literally to how we inhabit and steward our physical selves — our desires, our habits, our embodied choices. What does it mean for your body, specifically, to be an act of worship?
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