The religious soup we grow up in affects all of us. Sometimes the influences are helpful and favorable, but especially for those off the mainstream, they can be very painful and alienating. Even passages from holy books, initially innocent or positive, can by so badly misconstrued as to become life-threatening. K. Renato Lings tackles the texts of the Bible that have been particularly hurtful to LGBTQ folks, using serious scholarship and analysis to help repair connections and compassion in our world. His newest book is Holy Censorship or Mistranslation? Love, Gender and Sexuality in the Bible, and his 2013 book was Love Lost in Translation: Homosexuality and the Bible. Renato grew up in Denmark & is currently living in Sweden.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Lutheran, Quaker
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