YOU CAN HOLD ME ALL MY LIFE/BUT PARADISE CAN TAKE ME TWICE: Wesley Hill‘s book Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality is one of the very, excruciatingly few worthwhile books on Gay Christian Whatnot. (I’m honestly not sure if I can think of any others besides Beyond Gay, about which see here and here.) It’s a very quick read but very poignant. Hill basically tells his own story, with a focus on what the coming-out process is like for chaste Christians, and offers interludes on the life and work of Henri Nouwen and Gerard Manley Hopkins. (This parenthesis is me not talking about the significance of the fact that they were both Catholic.) I am not sure what to add to get you to read the book, other than to say that its focus on overcoming shame through accepting Christ’s love seems especially pointed in light of the young gay men’s suicides which have been so much in the news. Definitely recommended.