Resources

David Bennett & Ed Shaw

Eighteen men and women share their stories with disarming honesty about what it means to follow Christ while navigating same-sex attraction. The range of voices is what sets this collection apart — you'll likely find someone whose journey resonates with your own. A valuable first read for anyone wondering if they're alone in this.

Rachel Gilson

Rachel Gilson writes with rare theological clarity and personal candour, weaving her own story of faith and sexuality through careful exposition of Scripture. Each chapter holds together biography and Bible study in a way that feels organic rather than forced. Refreshingly honest, and consistently surprising.

Jackie Hill Perry

Jackie Hill Perry grew up without a father and spent years convinced that her sexuality and her faith could not coexist. Written with poetic force and deep biblical grounding, this book traces how an encounter with God reordered her understanding of both. One of the most arresting testimonies in this space.

David Bennett

David Bennett was a gay activist when he encountered Jesus — and this book is the account of what happened next. He writes about the tension between his identity and his new faith with courage and intellectual seriousness, never pretending the conflict is small. A story of relentless grace.

Wesley Hill

Wesley Hill's memoir is tender, theologically rich, and unflinching in its honesty about the loneliness that can accompany celibate faithfulness. He draws on literature, theology, and personal experience to explore what it means to wait on God's healing without knowing when — or whether — it will come. Essential reading.

Ed Shaw

Ed Shaw makes a counterintuitive argument: the real reason Christian sexual ethics seem unliveable isn't because they're wrong, but because the church has failed to embody the community and belonging that makes them make sense. A gently challenging book that asks as much of congregations as it does of individuals. Worth reading slowly.

Sam Allberry

Sam Allberry's slim volume remains one of the best starting points for anyone wanting to understand what the Bible actually says about homosexuality — and why it's good news rather than bad. He writes with clarity, grace, and obvious personal investment in the question. Short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to return to.

Preston Sprinkle

Sprinkle works through twenty-one of the most common arguments for a revisionist reading of Scripture, engaging each one charitably and carefully. The tone is generous throughout — he models how to hold convictions without contempt — while remaining clear about where the evidence leads. An invaluable resource for serious study.

Ed Shaw

Rather than starting with rules, Ed Shaw starts with a question: what is your sexuality actually for? The answers he finds in Scripture are richer and more surprising than either the church or culture tends to offer. A book that reframes the conversation in ways that prove genuinely helpful.

Ed Shaw

Beginning with the observation that loneliness is endemic — and that Christians are not immune — Shaw traces how the gospel addresses the human need for connection. He combines biblical insight with practical wisdom from his own experience of celibate life. Honest, hopeful, and practically grounded.

Sam Allberry

Sam Allberry brings a fresh perspective to questions of identity, gender, and sexuality by centering the physical body as central to Christian understanding of who we are. The argument is carefully made and will surprise readers on multiple sides of these debates. Thought-provoking from the first page.

Darrin Belousek

A thorough and scholarly work for those who want to engage seriously with the academic case for same-sex marriage. Belousek reads the revisionist arguments on their own terms before offering well-researched responses. Demanding but rewarding — best suited for those who want depth rather than a quick answer.

Preston Sprinkle

Preston Sprinkle writes with the rare combination of theological rigour and genuine pastoral warmth, refusing to treat homosexuality as merely a culture-war flashpoint. Drawing carefully on Scripture while keeping real people — their stories, their longing for belonging, and their faith — at the centre, this is an honest and compassionate guide for SSA Christians and for the families and churches who want to love them well.

Sam Allberry

Allberry dismantles the assumptions that make singleness feel like a consolation prize — the idea that it's a lesser life, a waiting room for the real thing, or something to be fixed. In their place he offers a vision of singleness as a calling with its own particular freedoms and witness. Encouraging and theologically careful.

Danielle Treweek

Danielle Treweek has written the most thorough theological treatment of singleness available today, drawing on biblical theology, church history, and cultural analysis. It's academic in scope but not inaccessible, and it equips the church to think about singleness not as a pastoral problem but as a gift worth recovering. A serious and important work.

Drew Hunter

Beginning with the familiar words "It is not good for man to be alone," Drew Hunter unfolds a rich and neglected vision of what friendship is for and how it shapes human flourishing. Warm and practically wise, the book also gently challenges the ways we settle for shallow connection when something deeper is available.

Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp

Lane and Tripp get to the heart of why our relationships so often disappoint us — and why the solution isn't withdrawal but deeper engagement shaped by the gospel. Full of honest self-examination and Christ-centred counsel, this is a practical guide for anyone who has found relationships more complicated than they expected.

Phil Knox

Phil Knox writes about friendship with both warmth and wit, covering everything from how to make friends in an increasingly isolated culture to how to maintain them through the seasons of life. Full of practical wisdom without being preachy — a genuinely enjoyable read.

John Wyatt

John Wyatt makes a compelling case that friendship is not a peripheral concern but a central expression of Christian love and community. He writes with sensitivity about the risks and rewards of deep friendship, acknowledging the pitfalls while making a strong case for pursuing it anyway. A thoughtful and recuperative book.

Preston Sprinkle

Preston Sprinkle brings the same rigorous compassion he applies to sexuality to the question of transgender experience, explaining the landscape clearly for those encountering it for the first time. He takes seriously both the pastoral complexities and the biblical framework, resisting easy answers in either direction. A clear-eyed and generous guide.

Glynn Harrison

Glynn Harrison argues that the church has too often simply said no to the sexual revolution without offering anything richer in its place. His book makes the positive case for a Christian vision of sexuality — one that genuinely addresses the longing for love, meaning, and belonging that drives so much of contemporary culture. Persuasive and constructive.

Ben Chang

Ben Chang traces the history of four social justice movements — including gay pride and transgender rights — with fairness and insight, before asking what a distinctively Christian response looks like. He avoids both defensive dismissal and uncritical affirmation, charting a more careful path. Compact, clear, and genuinely helpful.

Brad and Drew Harper

Brad and Drew Harper write to each other — father and son — in alternating chapters that make the reader feel present in a real and difficult conversation. Their candour about struggle, love, and the slow work of relationship is rare and moving. Perhaps the best book available for parents navigating this terrain with a child.

Lori Wildenberg

Written for parents whose children have taken an unexpected path, Lori Wildenberg draws on her own experience with her adopted daughter to offer honesty, grace, and practical guidance. The tone is neither alarmist nor naive — she writes as someone who has lived with the complexity and found her footing in the gospel.

Ed Drew

Ed Drew gives parents the tools to help their children build a secure identity in Christ before the world offers them alternatives. The discussion questions make it ideal for working through together, and the biblical grounding is solid without being heavy. A genuinely equipping resource.

Rebecca McLaughlin

Rebecca McLaughlin takes the hardest questions teenagers are asking — including "why can't we just say love is love?" — and answers them with clarity, depth, and real respect for the questioner. Neither condescending nor evasive, this book takes young people seriously as thinkers. An excellent resource for teenagers and the adults who walk alongside them.

Helen Thorne-Allenson

Helen Thorne-Allenson tackles pornography with both realism and compassion, making a clear case for why it causes harm before offering genuinely practical steps toward freedom. Short and accessible, it doesn't moralize from a distance — it speaks directly to people who are already struggling.

John Stevens

One of the most comprehensive treatments of temptation available in a short book — theologically grounded and practically engaged, with particular attention to sexuality and same-sex attraction. The book doesn't pretend the fight is easy, but it insists the fight is worth having.

Vaughan Roberts

Vaughan Roberts applies a Christian worldview to the question of pornography with characteristic clarity and directness. He doesn't simply condemn but shows the vision of sex that the gospel offers and why it's genuinely more satisfying. Ideal for those who want a framework, not just a list of rules.

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris writes for women with honesty that is rare on this topic — acknowledging both the pull of pornography and the shame that surrounds it, before pointing toward the grace that is greater than both. More pastoral than prescriptive, this book meets the reader where they are and offers a way forward.