The Broken Image

by Leanne Payne

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 1988

About the author

Mrs. Payne has been active in the ministry of healing prayer for over thirty years. She is the founder and president of Pastoral Care Ministries.

Her books include: Real Presence, The Broken Image, Healing the Homosexual, Crisis in Masculinity, Healing Presence, Restoring the Christian Soul, and Listening Prayer.

She has taught for Wheaton College, in the graduate program in Christian Spirituality at Creighton University, as well as for University of the Nations. She holds both a BA and MA from Wheaton College as well as an MA from the University of Arkansas. Mrs. Payne was also a research fellow at Yale Divinity School.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 1 out of 5]

Despite the author's genuine compassion, this book is old and reflects a view of being gay that saw homosexuality as something damaged or broken in LGBTQ people. This book was terribly damaging to me and did me enormous harm, despite being the most sympathetic book of those that were around in the late 90s. If you are gay or love someone who is, I hope that you can love yourself or your loved one without seeing them as broken and needing to be repaired. There's nothing wrong with being gay or being loved by someone who cherishes and supports you. You're not broken because you want love and to share your life like every other human.

[AJ Bell · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great book that is hard to read without a dictionary.