Jackie Hill Perry’s book Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was
and Who God Has Always Been ( B&H Publishers, 2018) is the kind of book
that many from the ‘Christian Community’ will love because they will read it
and think that Perry is suggesting that God is going to make all LGBQT people ‘straight’,
or ‘normal’. And I imagine that many
members of the LGBQT community will hate the book for the same reason. And of
course all of them would be wrong.
Mrs.
Perry’s story is her own story, and she tells it well, starting with her family
of origin, going on to her same-sex attractions and gender identity issues which
blossomed into a full scale Lesbian lifestyle.
But
somewhere along the way, God got hold of her, and changed her heart. The change
wasn’t easy, but God kept calling, and she kept responding.
There were
a couple of parts of the book that I particularly liked. Miss Jackie Hill is now Mrs Jackie Perry, and
she and her husband have 2 children. She
comments on the fact that this was part of her hear transformation, and not a
plot to convince her that if she would ‘just get married’ that she would learn
to be heterosexual. (That does happen
many times, but often those marriages end in disaster—it was never real in the
first place).
The other helpful part of the book,
Part 3 Same-Sex attraction AND…., which the author states are intended to be a
resource. She mentions that she has talked a lot about herself, and about God,
but she also wants to include some practical tips for others. There are a lot
of scripture passages that Jackie uses to help answer the questions that so
many people have when friends or family members come out as members of the LGBQT
community.
A poignant story that ends with
transformation…and that’s what God is all about.
I received a copy of this book from
the publisher as part of their blogger’s program. I was asked to write an
honest review, and there was no expectation that the review had to be positive
4/5
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