Announcing My Next Book
My much anticipated follow up to UnClobber is coming soon, and you can pre-order today!
Something awesome is coming soon… but first, the back story.
Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago I checked off a bucket list item: ✅ Publish Book.
Since then, UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality, has gone on to:
Sell over 50,000 copies;
Change the hearts and minds of thousands of people on LGBTQ inclusion;
Get translated into Spanish;
Be expanded into a second edition with a study guide, preaching guide, and additional chapters;
Provide the catalyst for most of my traveling ministry these past four years;
Become the source material for online courses;
Inspired the creation of a non-profit ministry, The UnClobber Initiative; and
Get incorrectly called “Unclobbered” (as in, past-tense) more frequently than it gets called by its actual name. It’s fine. I’ve come to accept and even appreciate it.
Experiencing the way UnClobber has transformed people and churches has been one of the highlights of my life this past decade.
Which is why I am STOKED to ANNOUNCE the upcoming release of my next book:
BUT WHAT ABOUT: The Most Asked Questions on Faith, the Bible, and LGBTQ Inclusion
But What About (St Martin’s Essentials) is set to release on November 17th, and it’s the bomb dot org (.com was taken, sadly).
This book is a direct result of my decade+ work with UnClobber, because here’s what I’ve learned: For many people their path to full inclusion of LGBTQ people (and/or, their full acceptance of themselves) was on the other side of the clobber passages.
Once they sorted out those six passages? They good.
For other people, however, even after engaging the clobber passages they still have questions.
Good and reasonable questions.
Such as:
But what about Adam & Eve?
But what about Biblical marriage?
But what about God creating two genders?
But what about ex-gay stories?
These have been the kinds of questions that have filled my inbox and shown up at live events for years now,
and it’s time to respond, baby!
Look, most sequels suck.1
But this is less sequel and more sequential.2 If you read and liked UnClobber, then just imagine this as the next 18 chapters in my ongoing effort to do my part to help eliminate bad ideas and resource better beliefs for LGBTQ inclusion.
More to say on But What About in the comings months. I just wanted to make this exciting announcement for my Substack readers. 🙌🏽
Pre-Order Today
Because I know that most of you don’t live in some remote off-the-grid shack where you’ve avoided internets and technologies for years, I'll assume that you’ve all heard the message: Pre-Orders are important!
Since I know that you know this already, I won’t bother telling you. Instead, I’ll just drop some links below and let you do your thing.
What I will say, though, is that between now and November 17 (pub day) I will be working on some special schtuff for people who do decide to pre-order.3 Stay tuned for more on that.
Pick your Pre-Ordering poison, my loves.
Maybe that’s why the publisher rejected my (admittedly bad) idea to call it UnClobber II.
As soon as I wrote this sentence I was like, “Hmph, that sounds like something ChatGPT would say.” Here's the deal, I’ve noticed that a lot of the things we now look for as clues that AI wrote it ARE VERY SIMILAR TO HOW I’VE ALWAYS WRITTEN. Which is annoying. I end up sounding like—or looking like, because I’ve been using em dashes since before Chat was a twinkle in Altman’s eye—I used AI to write my stuff. Which I don’t. Oh well.
If you’ve already pre-ordered, and/or plan to pre-order, then once I start rolling out the goodies ‘n freebies, you can just email me your receipt/proof of purchase. Easy-peasy.