LEADER 00000nim a22004935a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125052633.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180105s2018 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781982429430 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1982429437 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ bsa_9781538459058_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11900495 037 11900495|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 00 248.8/408664|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Coles, Gregory,|d1990-|eauthor. 245 10 Single, gay, Christian :|ba personal journey of faith and sexual identity|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bBlackstone Publishing,|c2018. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 23 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Paul Michael Garcia. 520 Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I'll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. I'll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered to myself the words I've whispered a thousand times since: "I'm gay." I'll show you the world through my eyes. I'll tell you what it's like to belong nowhere. To know that much of my Christian family will forever consider me unnatural, dangerous, because of something that feels as involuntary as my eye color. And to know that much of the LGBTQ community that shares my experience as a sexual minority will disagree with the way I've chosen to interpret the call of Jesus, believing I've bought into a tragic, archaic ritual of self-hatred. But I promise my story won't all be sadness and loneliness and struggle. I'll tell you good things too, hopeful things, funny things, like the time I accidentally came out to my best friend during his bachelor party. I'll tell you what it felt like the first time someone looked me in the eyes and said, "You are not a mistake." I'll tell you that joy and sorrow are not opposites, that my life has never been more beautiful than when it was most brokenhearted. If you'll listen, I promise I'll tell you everything, and you can decide for yourself what you want to believe about me. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Coles, Gregory,|d1990- 650 0 Gays|xReligious life. 650 0 Christian biography. 650 0 Gays|vBiography. 650 0 Homosexuality|xReligious aspects|xChristianity. 700 1 Garcia, Paul Michael. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 11900495?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ bsa_9781538459058_180.jpeg