Over Coffee: A Conversation For Gay Partnership & Conservative Faith

by Dave Thompson

Over Coffee is a narrative piece couched in the coffee-house conversation between Dave and a small-town pastor concerning a gay church member who desires to be partnered in the church.

Over Coffee warmly introduces the reader to a biblical, faith-based dialogue for providing room on the pew in today’s most conservative churches for gay partnered persons.

In this work Dave provides an uncommonly informative bridge for two otherwise seemingly opposing audiences. Over Coffee brings to the table two respective views, and dispels the polarizing stance from which they are customarily positioned. This is done so within a conservative context that embraces biblical relevance and conservative faith tenets, while presenting a case for holding gay partnership within a similar framework in which the Bible embraces any other human condition.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2010

Reviews

[Craig Mathison · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is just what its subtitle claims; a conversation regarding gay partnership and conservative Christian faith. A bit of casual internet research will inform you that the author is a conservative Christian man who has "come out" as being gay.

The book chronicles a semi-mythical conversation between the author and a small town pastor that takes place over coffee. It's an easy read, a quick read and one that will likely strike you as very plausible and authentic. As most authors do, Dave Thompson has an "agenda." But that agenda is fairly obvious and is even necessary for the kind of conversation Over Coffee sets forth.

The issue of the book are the questions, "Is it possible in the church to talk about gay relationships?" and "If we were to talk about them, how would we do that?" Dave Thompson sets forth a theological position that, potentially, can facilitate conversation on a tough issue. As such, this book does the Christian church and the Christian faith a service.

[Tyler Francke · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this rare and uniquely courageous book, Dave Thompson confronts one of the modern-day evangelical church's most pressing and divisive conversations with remarkable candor and grace. This is a book for conservative Christians, especially pastors, in which they can reflect on the LGBT question without any fear of their views or faith tradition being turned into a straw man and gleefully burned in effigy. Thompson does not mandate an overturning of traditional Christian views of sexual ethics or the biblical passages concerning homosexuality, he merely suggests that there is a conversation to be had over how these passages should be applied in our complex, post-Edenic world. A short but provocative read; highly recommended.