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India Press Store - In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God
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Manufacturer: Seabury Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 283.092
EAN: 9781596270886
ISBN: 1596270888
Label: Seabury Books
Manufacturer: Seabury Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher: Seabury Books
Studio: Seabury Books
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Summary: The Eye of the Storm is for all to read!
Comment: Gene Robinson's book is a must read for people of all circumstances. He compassionately tells his story and that of his Biblical understanding with regard to the love Jesus came to tell of and asked us to live out.
Before you draw conclusions or are held back by preconceived notions about this subject, please read the "human" side of this devout, deeply Christian man.
Robinson lives out his faith and accepts the challenges he has been given as a child of God. This is a call for us to make our way into a more compassionate response to this and others who seek to live out their faith as God has called them and us to do.
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Summary: A wonderful Book!
Comment: Bishop Robinson has written a book that is filled with faith, hope and joy! The day I recieved it, I read it cover to cover. I reread it 3 times before I lent it to my Mom.
He covers the subject of homophobic behavior by the Anglican Church and other's by reminding us, of Jesus's constant reminders "to love one another and to forgive each other, not 7x7,but 70x7".
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Summary: A "must read" for everyone
Comment: Even if you're not Anglican/Episcopalian, or not even Christian this book is definately an important read. At it's heart is the real life experience of what it's like to be a person who has integrated sex, intimacy and love facing down institutions led by people who can't even imagine sex, intimacy and love together. Gene Robinson stumbles into an age old conflict in the church. Celebacy, amputating one's sexuality to achieve holiness vs. the idea that God (being love) is always present in the love between sexually bonded couples. Is Christianity an anti-sex cult that holds that love making can not exist in human sexuality and only reproduction can justify it? Or will Christians embrace the idea that God IS love and all love comes from God including sexual intimacy? Gene's story puts the reader in a very interesting place to view the question of whether making love is holy, God filled and inspired or whether it's vile, the enemy of holy love and only the possibility of reproduction make it acceptable for people trying to live good lives.
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Summary: Wake up and smell the coffee!
Comment: Outstanding reading. Bishop Robinson combines his knowledge of things biblical with compassion and wit; honesty and reverence. This mans gift of humaneness, logic and loving leadership are outstanding. To those dedicated but errant followers of the old way I say, "Wake up and smell the coffee." This is our chance to be part of a challenginly new and honestly loving rebirth of our church..
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Summary: Sobering memoir
Comment: Gene Robinson is known worldwide for one thing - his sexuality - and this book seeks to show that his ministry is rather more than just being part of the storm over gay priests in the Anglican church. The book is a series of reflections on different aspects of ministry, not offered in any particularly logical order but growing out of his experiences as a priest and then bishop over three decades. It's not an autobiography and there are many parts of his life alluded to but not really explained; instead he uses the pages to show how people's attitudes towards gay and lesbian people can be similar to those towards women, non-whites and disabled people, and how difficult it is to know, if we are part of a majority group, what it's like to be in the minority and how hard it can be to be treated fairly.
What's remarkable about the book is the way in which Gene Robinson does not come across as bitter against his many detractors; he sees his ministry as the most important and overriding thing, such as in the local women's prison where he is a regular visitor. The final chapter, discussing the forthcoming Lambeth concert in 2008, is a plea for those in the church to genuinely listen to lesbian and gay members but is a plea that appears to have fallen on deaf ears. This is a sobering and at times moving book which doesn't really seek to discuss the issue of homosexuality and the Bible per se, but more looks at congregations in the church, Jesus's words that all are welcome, the difficulties for homosexual people within the church and the need for genuine discussion about the issues.
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Gene Robinson is bishop of the tiny, rural Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, but he's at the center of a storm of controversy raging in the Episcopal Church and throughout the worldwide Anglican Communion involving homosexuality, the priesthood, and the future of the Communion. This book offers an honest, thoughtful portrait of Robinson, the faith that has informed his life, and the controversy that continues to rock his Church.
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