Jesus in Love

by Kittredge Cherry

Overview

What if Jesus knew how it feels to be queer? Surprising answers come in Jesus in Love, a novel that re-imagines Christ's legendary life as an erotic, mystical adventure in first-century Palestine. Jesus has today's queer sensibilities and psychological sophistication as he lives out his mythic story. Readers can relate to the struggles he faces: He feels like his real self is both male and female. He falls in love with people of both sexes. Society doesn't understand him. Jesus, the narrator, speaks in an engaging, up-to-date tone as he reveals his intimate relationships with John the beloved disciple (a gay man mourning his lover's death), Mary Magdalene (a highly intelligent survivor of sexual abuse) and the multi-gendered Holy Spirit. The novel shows how Jesus grows over a one-year period-from his decision to get baptized until the day he sends his friends away to teach others. Ultimately he leads disciples of both sexes to a place where sexuality and spirituality are one. "Jesus in Love" frees the reader to imagine and experience Christ in new ways.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152615562
Publisher:	John R. Mabry
Publication date:	02/05/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

What People are Saying About This

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

"People who want to understand how erotic love can be sacred, and divine love can be erotic, will delight in this novel."--(Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Ph.D., author of Omnigender and Transgender Journeys)

Carter Heyward

"What a lovely, gentle, playful book! It sparkles with erotic christic power, which we might read as an image of Jesus' own sexual energies. Kitt Cherry continues to write with passion as she draws creatively and faithfully from deep wellsprings of imagination."--(Rev. Carter Heyward, Ph.D.,Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology, Cambridge, MA)

Richard Labonte

"Cherry's jaunty re-imagining of the story of Jesus casts him as a mystical erotic adventurer in the years before his crucifixion - nothing like the neutered historical Christ of fundamentalist lore . . . This gay-sensitive story about the Christian big boy's explicit queer incarnation is a winsome affirmation of erotic love's sacred potential."--(Richard Labonte, "Book Marks" column from Q Syndicate)

Mel White

"Kitt Cherry has broken through the stained glass barrier. Don't be afraid. This is not a prurient look at the sex life of Jesus but a classic re-telling of the greatest story ever told. Read JESUS IN LOVE and you will feel His Spirit reaching out to you."--(Rev. Mel White, founder of Soulforce and author of Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right)

Toby Johnson

"A real tour de force in transforming traditional myth to modern consciousness . . . A truly mind-blowing creation. The writing style is just perfect. Jesus in Love is a wonderful, gay-sensitive, and delightfully 'shocking' reassessment of the stories of the old-time religion. I promise you, you'll be surprised by the book."--(Toby Johnson, author of Gay Spirituality and former editor of White Crane: A Journal of Gay Spirit)