As someone who works in youth ministry, I had been wanting read this for a long time. Not only is Jackie's story poignant and impactful, but she also has an excellent way with words. She tells her story with honesty and humility, not being graphic, but being real with who she was and how God entered and changed her life. I would recommend this book to any Christian who is struggling with same-sex attraction, because she does not shame people who are like she once was, but shares her story as one who has been there and can testify to God saving a whole person and not just trying to "fix" or "change" certain parts of themselves.

Here’s the thing, you can be a brilliant and powerful speaker and still be spewing incredibly dangerous rhetoric.

This author is someone who doesn’t know or understand that you can both be a Christian AND be gay. God doesn’t make mistakes. The love and attraction the author says she STILL has for women is good and beautiful. Trying to suppress this, and to get others to do the same is playing with people’s lives.

Unconditional love is loving someone wholly. Including aspects you may not understand. This should apply to others as well as yourself.

This author has blood on her hands, and it ain’t the blood of Christ.

I see her, and I see her struggle. I hope one day others can love and affirm her so that she can be a whole and healthy gay person. There are so many churches that would welcome her unconditionally with open arms- her whole lesbian self.

And I hope she chooses to step into her truth sooner rather than later as each time someone looks to this book for help, they will find themselves more lost, confused, and isolated.

Beautiful, truthful, just exquisite. This is not just a telling of Jackie's life before and after Christ, but of who God is, and who He calls us to be. This is one of those books you can read, but I would strongly encourage you to listen to the audiobook, as she reads her own words. The cadence and passion she uses to relay her story in her own voice is profound, and breathes life to an experience I know nothing of but have a new understanding of. Please read!

Jackie Hill Perry writes her story with such a prose that I could listen to her explain the process of paint drying. A slightly different perspective theologically than “Single, Gay Christian” but experientially, the authors had very different lives as children and adolescents. I appreciate her value of the whole person and her stance to not claim her own story as the only way to be healed and whole in Christ.

Lovely writing with great views on scripture taken into depth and overall a beautiful testimony of God’s grace and love.

Didn't feel this was likely to win over any skeptics or people on the fence looking for help and encouragement regarding fighting sexual sin (any type). While it’s clear that Perry loves God and the Scriptures, she speaks very matter-of-factly with a LOT of Christian jargon and also doesn’t get very deep into her particular struggles (which I think is what people are interested to read about with this kind of book). Not sure who the author's intended audience is, but it seems more like a testimony to Christians, than a conversation with non-Christians.

Excellent! A must listen. So much truth regarding who God is and His merciful promises, call, and help for all image-bearers.

I’m not gay but I have loved ones that are gay. This book left me feeling sad, so sad. Jackie is a beautiful writer and has shared her story clearly, but it’s simply her story. I felt like she was preaching at times &... it just didn’t sit well.

Thankful for what I learned from this book. Jackie Hill Perry's voice is easy to hear in her writing which I appreciate.