Reviews
“Ralph Basui Watkins is a religious sociologist who is a captivating storyteller. His memoir will consume you as you journey with him in the making and unmaking of himself as a hyper-masculine homophobe, as revealed through the words he uses. I could "see" the moments about which he writes. What Dr. Watkins experiences is not reform, but repentance, complete with the work of repair as a cisgender heterosexual man whose pastoral heart shines through for his Queer* kin. The book is a lesson in ongoing Christian conversion and change, a guide to a conversation that I hope all who love the Black Church and the church at large will read, study, and learn from, whether men's groups, youth groups, the church's bible study groups, book clubs, and more. I would also recommend that seminaries teaching practical theology use it, and the books of his conversation partners. What a gift Dr. Watkins has given us with his unflinching confessional book.”—Rev. Valerie Bridgeman, Ph.D., Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Homiletics & Hebrew Bible, Methodist Theological School in Ohio