Following yesterday’s piece, several readers have asked me to recommend a

book on homosexuality and the Bible. I can’t claim to be well read in this

area (and I guarantee that ANY book recommended will raise howls of scorn

from some faction: “Oh, that old thing? Totally superseded!”) However, a

book that has impressed me very much, and which I often dip into for facts

and thoughtful analysis, is Robert A.J. Gagnon’s The Bible and Homosexual Practice, which is a very dense

scholarly study of the whole field, covering both Old and New Testament

(heck, it covers the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls,

too!), and summarizing a wealth of recent research about homosexuality.

Gagnon is an Asst. Prof. at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. If you want to

say anything about religion and homosexuality, from any angle, you need this

book on your shelf.