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Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say
Living in a Gray World: A Christian Teen's Guide to Understanding Homosexuality
People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
Can I Say That?: How Unsafe Questions Lead Us to the Real God
Foreword
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