Openness Unhindered

Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Narrated by: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Before you can resolve the issues of our day, you must be able to clarify them.

Terms like same-sex marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gay Christian are part of daily discourse; yet enormous controversy surrounds them. They are the stuff of news headlines and vitriolic social media posts. But they also reflect stirrings of the heart in real people with real questions and concerns.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, once a leftist professor in a committed lesbian relationship and now a confessional Christian, but always the thoughtful and compassionate professor, has written a followup to The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. This book answers many of the questions people pose when she speaks at universities and churches, questions not only about her unlikely conversion to Christ but about personal struggles that the ques­tioners only dare to ask someone else who has traveled a long and painful journey.

Dr. Butterfield not only goes to great lengths to clarify some of today's key controversies, she also traces their history and defines the terms that have become second nature today—even going back to God's original design for marriage and sexuality as found in the Bible. She cuts to the heart of the problems and points the way to the solution, which includes a challenge to the church to be all that God intended it to be, and for each person to find the true freedom that is found in Christ.

Chapters include:

• Conversion: the Spark of a New Identity
• Identity: the Flame of Our Union in Christ
• Repentance: the Threshold to God and the Answer to Shame, Temptation, and Sin
• Sexual Orientation: Freud’s 19th Century Category Mistake
• Self-Representation: What Does It Mean to Be “gay”?
• Conflict: When Sisters Disagree
• Community: Representing Christ to the World

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Raw

The honestly displayed in this book is unlike any other I have ever listened to. The content is something everyone in not only the Christian church but the world should delight and learn from. Thank you for this experience sharing.

Good Biblical and Personal Testimonial

I enjoyed the Biblical analysis because I just finished a class at BBI in Cleveland OH on Biblical hermeneutics. My takeaway from that class and this book is that the sixty six books of the Bible were written by men moved by the Holy Spirit and are God’s words without error in the original writing and that we have reliable translations today.

I enjoyed her testimony about how the Holy Spirit drew her to belief in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior through reading the Bible.

I also liked her discussion of the responsibility and privilege of true Christian believers to be reconsilers to show God’s love to lost and hurting people so that they to may have faith in Jesus Christ.

What I’ve needed

I’ve needed to hear these words.

Thank you Mrs. Butterfeild. Your testimony is guidance and shepherding.

Great!

Excellent book! I really enjoyed the testimonial aspect of this book. It should be on the shelf of every pastor, theologian, and student of the Bible!

Walking the Christian Walk

Very rich picture of true Christian life. Inspiring and uplifting. I read her first Christian book, and am glad I read this as well.