{"product_id":"does-jesus-really-love-me-a-gay-christians-pilgrimage-in-search-of-god-in-america-9780062049742","title":"Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian's Pilgrimage in Search of God in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A fascinating, thoughtful, and important book. [Chu] captures the fractures and conflict at a moment when the issue of what to do with L.G.B.T. people is tearing Christian denominations apart. \u003cem\u003eDoes Jesus Really Love Me?\u003c\/em\u003e deserves to be widely read.\" --Dan Savage, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFunny and heartbreaking, perplexing and wise, \u003cem\u003eDoes Jesus Really Love Me?\u003c\/em\u003e is an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual pilgrimage that reveals a portrait of a faith and a nation at odds.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jeff Chu came out to his parents as a gay man, his devout Christian mother cried for months. As a journalist and a believer, Chu knew that he had to get to the heart of a question that had been haunting him for years: Does Jesus really love me? The quest to find an answer propels Chu on a remarkable cross-country journey to discover the God \"forbidden to him\" because of his sexuality. From Brooklyn to Nashville to California, from Westboro Baptist Church and their god hates fags protest signs to the pioneering Episcopal bishop Mary Glasspool, who proclaims a message of liberation and divine love, Chu captures spiritual snapshots of Christian America at a remarkable moment, when tensions between both sides in the culture wars have rarely been higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChu, Jeff:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJeff Chu is co-curator of Evolving Faith, alongside Sarah Bessey, who founded the gathering with Rachel Held Evans. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eDoes Jesus Really Love Me?\u003c\/em\u003e and an editor-at-large at \u003cem\u003eTravel+Leisure\u003c\/em\u003e. He, his husband, Tristan, and their dog, Fozzie, make their home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692585062674,"sku":"9780062049742","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17751ab9-1eac-4532-8329-8c2909613404.jpg?v=1734128396","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/does-jesus-really-love-me-a-gay-christians-pilgrimage-in-search-of-god-in-america-9780062049742","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}