We hear about her struggles as a new Christian, and how Jesus slowly transformed her. Then, at the age of 19, God miraculously broke into her life and suddenly everything changed. In her teenage years she experienced gender confusion, and embraced masculinity and homosexuality. She grew up in a fatherless home and was abused as a child. We are drawn into her troubled childhood. The first two parts are Jackie’s autobiography. Page after page she drew me back to God, his love, and his faithfulness. Her work caused me to weep, but it also caused me to sing. We hear about her firsthand experience of the brokenness of this world.

Jackie states in the introduction that ‘truth is where freedom begins’ (p.3), and then goes on to demonstrate this fact.

Gay Girl, Good God is a book grounded in rich truth. The majority of the book is autobiographical, and yet as she tells us her story, in reality, she is telling God’s story, and she uses every opportunity to sing his praises. Plus, Jackie herself shows a clear love for God. She wants conservative Christians to demonstrate the love of God, and she wants same-sex attracted Christians to experience the grace of God. She wants gay people to see the beauty of God. Gay Girl, Good God is a book written out of love. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been (B&H Publishing, 2018) And not in a church, or through contact with Christians-God broke in and turned her heart towards Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could?Īt age 19, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. She abused marijuana, loved pornography, and embraced both masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness.

Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry