See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity
“An essential book [that] will perhaps begin the national conversation that we deserve.”—Paul Landerman,Edge “Frykholm and the brave souls she interviews will challenge your understanding of grace.”—David K. Wheeler,Burnside Writers Collective “The most redemptive book I've ever read.”—Dave, Elliot Bay Bookstore“A culturally significant collection that explores the  challenges of reconciling pleasure with piety.”—Kirkus“A Christian herself, Frykholm does not offer this book as a means to discourage people from the religion. Rather, she holds up these wounded but not lost souls to critique dogmatic practices that, in disdaining the body, disdain the spirit.”—Crystal K. Wiebe,Bitch “A fascinating, troubling, and finally heartening book that subtly shows ways that Christians might reconcile their bodies with their devotion to God. Highly recommended for individual Christians but also for pastors and church groups.”—Library Journal, starred review“Amy  Frykholm has gathered the intimate stories of people of faith in search of  wholeness. These tender tales both challenge and encourage the church to listen  to voices it might not hear otherwise. When it comes to integrating mind, body  and spirit, the Church can serve as curse or blessing. These searingly honest  stories compel us to strive for the latter.”—The  Rev. Lillian Daniel, author ofTell it Like  it is: Recovering the Practice of  Testimony “This  is a compelling book that traverses the teeming intersection of sexuality and  faith in the life of nine individuals. They are stories of very ordinary  people's struggles to live as whole beings. Their stories are rendered with such  compassion and insight, however, that the result is anything but ordinary. The  reader is left with the conviction that the church must, and the hope that it  will, minister to people in the fullness of their  lives.”—The  Rev. Martin B. Copenhaver, author ofTo  Begin at the Beginning“American  Christianity is facing a crisis: our easy answers about life after death have  left so many with little hope for life in their bodies here and now. Amy  Frykholm chronicles this crisis in real time, inviting us to experience the pain  of sisters and brothers living in exile from their flesh. But she also proclaims  a gentle word of hope: ‘look again at our tradition,’ she seems to whisper.  'Christ is risen in a body with feet that touch the  ground."–Jonathan  Wilson-Hartgrove, author ofThe  Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile  Culture“With singular gentleness and a palpable respect for those whose stories she is telling, Amy Frykholm lays bare whole areas of human sexual formation that I had never seen before, much less considered….This is an important book.”—Phyllis Tickle, author ofThe Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why  “These disarmingly  honest life stories of people navigating the ‘tenacious strangeness’ of their  sexual and spiritual lives will stay with you long after you finish this book.  So will the gracious, honoring, and insightful ways Frykholm tells and  interprets them. It should be on every Protestant pastor's coffee  table.”—Timothy  Beal, author ofThe Rise and Fall of the  Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental  BookFrom the Hardcover edition.