Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0874779669 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this encompassing guidebook, de la Huerta looks at Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, New Thought, New Age, and Earth-based religions, including Native American. An impassioned call to action, Coming Out Spiritually alternatively touches, challenges, encourages, and supports the queer community to fully reclaim its spiritual heritage.. In these times of dramatic social change, when the highly charged issue of homosexuality is undeniably causing controversy in many arenas--religion, marriage, politics, education, the military--Christian de la Huerta, founder and director of Q-Spirit, offers a fresh outlook on gay spirituality and how to assert it.A spiritual awakening is occurrin
Christian de la Huerta is equally passionate, and his message--that the coming-out process, when understood in spiritual terms, never ends--is an important one. (Like Harvey and Fox, de la Huerta sometimes uses jargon that obscures his arguments.) For gay people who have a pretty good sense of who they are, however, Coming Out Spiritually can be an important resource for continuing the process of learning to live honestly with their desires. This book may be a bit confusing to gay people just beginning to come out. "When we learn to reunite sex and Spirit in our lives, we wil
William Courson said A masterful, indispensable tool for self-empowerment. "Coming Out Spiritually" by Christian de la Huerta was named one of its top ten religion books of 1999 by Publisher's Weekly. Now in its eighth printing, the book has provided gay and lesbian people and their friends and allies with a thorough and thoughtful synthesis of their queer and spiritual selves.Born in Cuba, de la Huerta is a passionate proponen. this is EXCELLENT!. Miguel Cruz .if you are [still] questioning . and want to put a stop to it . this is EXCELLENT !. An Anthology of Spirituality This book discusses a number of ways of "coming out." But de la Huerta concentrates on a spiritual foundation for this. He begins his book with a story from a meeting of people from around the world forming United Religions. The purpose is to find common ground among the world's religious traditions. At this conference he spoke up about including gay peo