"The only constant in this world is God. Gayness, on the other hand, can be an immovable identity only when the heart is unwilling to bow." p 1

Perry's memoir is very honest and unapologetic. She continually points back to Jesus as the most important Lover in anyone's life.

I appreciated what she had to say about singleness and marriage - she does not uphold marriage as the greatest accomplishment in a Christian's life, but recognizes that singleness is good and just as huge a blessing as marriage.

Honestly, the only thing I didn't like was that Perry's writing style is a bit flowery and long-winded. Here's an example from page 23:

A woman, height barely breaking 5-foot-3, with the smile of a million laughs, and the eyes of one whose memories are cold and brutal to touch walked inside the club.

But she's a poet, so I guess that's to be expected.

It's certainly worth a read! ( )

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This is worth reading, but I have some critiques for it. Review to come. ( )

I really wanted to like the book, and the book did have a positive impact on me in my attitude toward God's grace and power in helping believers live like Christ. But I would have liked a more personal narrative instead of the poetic voice the author used. The author's life was recounted using much metaphors and imagery, with murky details. Because of the lack of details, I have trouble understanding the author's life trajectory or sympathize with her experience. The author spent a lot of time stating the content of the gospel and how her life fit into the big picture of the gospel, to the extent that I felt her focus was on the big picture, and not her life. I think this was her exact intention, as she stated in the prologue that this book is not about her but about God. But what I experienced then becomes a 160-page sermon on the gospel stated in a poetic fashion, with very little illustrations except blurry vignettes from different snippets of her life. ( )

"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.