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Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for gender-queer and transgender people
Transfigured offers a 40-day exploration of scripture through the lens of a God who is the designer of gender in all it’s magnificent variety. While reading it you’ll encounter a Creator who is both male and female, and come to realize that God’s image and likeness are most fully manifested by gender-queer people.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 29, 2018
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About the author
Suzanne DeWitt Hall
26 books70 followersSuzanne DeWitt Hall (she/they) is the author of The Language of Bodies (Woodhall Press, October 2022), which Wally Lamb called "...a film noir between covers—dark, tense, and sexy."
She also penned the Where True Love Is devotionals, the Living in Hope series which supports the family and friends of transgender people, The Path of Unlearning faith deconstruction books, and the Rumplepimple adventures.
Suzanne lives with her transgender husband, two terriers, and a cat named Chicken. Her work is designed to shine the light of love into hearts darkened by discrimination and fear. You can learn more at www.sdewitthall.com
She also penned the Where True Love Is devotionals, the Living in Hope series which supports the family and friends of transgender people, The Path of Unlearning faith deconstruction books, and the Rumplepimple adventures.
Suzanne lives with her transgender husband, two terriers, and a cat named Chicken. Her work is designed to shine the light of love into hearts darkened by discrimination and fear. You can learn more at www.sdewitthall.com
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February 8, 2019
This book is a short 40 day devotional. Do not let the size of this one fool you. This book is full of depth and wisdom. Everyone in the LGBTQIA community should read this book. A Christian is a Christian and love is love. This devotional is freeing and motivational. If you are transgender or non binary grab this book and devour it and then pass it along to your church.
February 8, 2019
Transfigured is a much needed devotional. I highly recommend it.
July 12, 2018
I was given an advanced reader edition of Transfigured by the author. Here's my review:
Transfigured delivers an uplifting and much needed affirming devotional for gender-queer and transgender people. It offers comfort and healing as it unravels the truth from deep within the scriptures. Hall’s 40-day devotional is a worthy addition to any LGBTQI religious studies library.
Cheryl B. Evans (Author of What Does God Think? Transgender People and The Bible).
Transfigured delivers an uplifting and much needed affirming devotional for gender-queer and transgender people. It offers comfort and healing as it unravels the truth from deep within the scriptures. Hall’s 40-day devotional is a worthy addition to any LGBTQI religious studies library.
Cheryl B. Evans (Author of What Does God Think? Transgender People and The Bible).
October 12, 2018
I would recommend this devotional to all people.
October 3, 2018
Transfigured is a wonder-filled devotional for transgender and non-binary Christians and their allies. This book will bring you to a place where you feel closer to God and to the all they created you to be. I encourage everyone to read this devotional and sit with God. Ponder the wonder of who you are and the bigness of our loving God. Transfigured is brilliantly written with a deepness that will have swimming in the deep end of theology but also has uncomplicated simplicity that will fall upon your soul like a gentle spring rain, refreshing, revitalizing, and restoring your relationship with God. If you have ever doubted how much God loves you or if you belong in church this book is for you. If you want to draw closer to Him this book is also for you. Transfigured is a 40 day journey worth taking.Bravo to author Suzanne DeWitt Hall.
July 11, 2018
A devotional for the LGBTQ Community and anyone really. Well done. A devotional is suppose to draw you into a state of contemplation. This book did this for me and will for you. Read it and ponder the bigness of God and how much he loves everyone.
July 11, 2018
Inspiring and motivational. A quick read. This book pulls you in to a journey of truth and freedom. I would highly recommend it to everyone in the LGBTQ community and their friedns and family.
July 12, 2018
I was given an advanced reader edition of Transfigured by the author. Here's my review:
Taking spiritual director from a person who isn’t a gender minority made it difficult for me as a trans and intersex person to read these pages at first: After all, these are the same passages I’ve studied, prayed over, and eventually taught on for decades as a Christian pastor and theologian — particularly in the decades I was closeted, struggling to find answers for why I was different and what to do about it, and in the years after I first came out and so deeply wanted reconciliation with the global Christian community now agitated against my very existence. During those decades of life-and-death theological, pastoral struggle, I’d arrived at the very same interpretations Suzanne shares here, leaning into the boundless grace of God’s unconditional love. What can I learn from someone who isn’t even a gender minority restating in such a simple form what took me decades to integrate into my life openly? And some phrases here grate against my own lived experience of the complexity and nuance gender in ways that rub raw the would of stigma and discrimination I’ve encountered from so many Christians since coming out. Yes, this devotional stirs up feelings — both affirming and challenging — that can move forward the prayer life of a broken community: Those who are not trans and not intersex may never have thought about these things the way Suzanne has brought them to you here. Those who are gender minorities are relieved for a moment from the nearly thankless, constant work of having to educate, argue with and defend ourselves from those in our own faith family. We can come together here to pray, each as we are, as one community in faith.
Taking spiritual director from a person who isn’t a gender minority made it difficult for me as a trans and intersex person to read these pages at first: After all, these are the same passages I’ve studied, prayed over, and eventually taught on for decades as a Christian pastor and theologian — particularly in the decades I was closeted, struggling to find answers for why I was different and what to do about it, and in the years after I first came out and so deeply wanted reconciliation with the global Christian community now agitated against my very existence. During those decades of life-and-death theological, pastoral struggle, I’d arrived at the very same interpretations Suzanne shares here, leaning into the boundless grace of God’s unconditional love. What can I learn from someone who isn’t even a gender minority restating in such a simple form what took me decades to integrate into my life openly? And some phrases here grate against my own lived experience of the complexity and nuance gender in ways that rub raw the would of stigma and discrimination I’ve encountered from so many Christians since coming out. Yes, this devotional stirs up feelings — both affirming and challenging — that can move forward the prayer life of a broken community: Those who are not trans and not intersex may never have thought about these things the way Suzanne has brought them to you here. Those who are gender minorities are relieved for a moment from the nearly thankless, constant work of having to educate, argue with and defend ourselves from those in our own faith family. We can come together here to pray, each as we are, as one community in faith.
July 12, 2018
I was given an advanced reader edition of Transfigured by the author. Here's my review:
I will recommend Suzanne DeWitt Hall’s book “Transfigured” to every gender-queer and transgender person I know, for it is written for them. I will also recommend it to their friends and families and all allies and everyone else. It’s a beautifully and graciously written daily devotional that leads one gently and wisely on a forty day spiritual journey towards self-affirmation and one’s rightful place in the Christian family.
I will recommend Suzanne DeWitt Hall’s book “Transfigured” to every gender-queer and transgender person I know, for it is written for them. I will also recommend it to their friends and families and all allies and everyone else. It’s a beautifully and graciously written daily devotional that leads one gently and wisely on a forty day spiritual journey towards self-affirmation and one’s rightful place in the Christian family.
December 17, 2018
Thought provking and well written. This book is a wonderful journey to a closer relationship with God for gender queer people. I would recommend it to everyone but especailly those in the LGBTQ community.
December 17, 2018
Very good devotional for everyone. We gifted several copies for Christmas.
July 12, 2018
I was given an advanced reader edition of Transfigured by the author. Here's my review:
The next 40 days are going to be life-changing for you! Suzanne DeWitt Hall's Transfigured is a beautiful walk through the Bible and how it connects the LGBTQ+ Community to a loving God. In this time where so many Churches and individual Christian's are rejecting Queer people for their identity and orientation, having a resource like this is so important and necessary.
Prepare for a journey, emotionally and mentally, and most of all, get ready to be Transfigured.
The next 40 days are going to be life-changing for you! Suzanne DeWitt Hall's Transfigured is a beautiful walk through the Bible and how it connects the LGBTQ+ Community to a loving God. In this time where so many Churches and individual Christian's are rejecting Queer people for their identity and orientation, having a resource like this is so important and necessary.
Prepare for a journey, emotionally and mentally, and most of all, get ready to be Transfigured.
October 16, 2018
This is a MUST read for anyone who is in the LGBTQI + community or their allies. This has literally been a life changing read. It is amazingly and beautifully written by someone who has lived out this book along with her Wife.
It is simply amazing and has helped me understand so much. It has enlightened me and opened up the scriptures in context and to be all inclusive. It has confirmed for me as a Christian what it means to be accepted in the beloved and to be an all inclusive Christian.
A great bible believing devotional which will open your heart and mind to the truth of His word. I wish I could put this eloquently, but your money will be worth spent on this book.
It is easy to understand and set out so everyone can read and understand it which is a talent in itself. Thank you so much to the author.
It is simply amazing and has helped me understand so much. It has enlightened me and opened up the scriptures in context and to be all inclusive. It has confirmed for me as a Christian what it means to be accepted in the beloved and to be an all inclusive Christian.
A great bible believing devotional which will open your heart and mind to the truth of His word. I wish I could put this eloquently, but your money will be worth spent on this book.
It is easy to understand and set out so everyone can read and understand it which is a talent in itself. Thank you so much to the author.
November 16, 2021
A Beautiful Book
I have been deeply touched by the scriptures chief in this book as well as the lovely, clear-eyed manner by which Ms. Hall links the truth of those scriptures to the reality of God's love for all, including transgender individuals. I'm not transgender, but I've been fat all my life and always struggled with feeling less than, even in the eyes of God. This book has touched me deeply.
I have been deeply touched by the scriptures chief in this book as well as the lovely, clear-eyed manner by which Ms. Hall links the truth of those scriptures to the reality of God's love for all, including transgender individuals. I'm not transgender, but I've been fat all my life and always struggled with feeling less than, even in the eyes of God. This book has touched me deeply.
January 16, 2019
Good news
Cherished. Loved. Evidence in the Bible to prove it. "Whoever knows love, knows God.". Remember that your being is a wonderous mystery ordained by God.
Cherished. Loved. Evidence in the Bible to prove it. "Whoever knows love, knows God.". Remember that your being is a wonderous mystery ordained by God.
November 26, 2018
This is an OK devotional, but it seems like it is more widely targeted than I found it to be. I suspect it would be a good devotional for somebody finding a conflict related to gender and Christianity. But it seems so focused on gender transition and expression that… it almost felt as if it didn't recognize that there is more to me than my gender. And at this point in my journey, I need something that doesn't focus solely on that aspect of my life.
I was also disappointed to see that the "For Further Study" blurb only pointed to a website (because the author felt that would be more useful than listing resources that would quickly become out of date as organizations change and new ones grow). But when I went to the web site, five months after Goodreads says the book was released, that page only has two headings, each with "Resources coming soon!"
So, disappointed that this devotional didn't seem to be for me, but I can see it being valuable for the right reader.
I was also disappointed to see that the "For Further Study" blurb only pointed to a website (because the author felt that would be more useful than listing resources that would quickly become out of date as organizations change and new ones grow). But when I went to the web site, five months after Goodreads says the book was released, that page only has two headings, each with "Resources coming soon!"
So, disappointed that this devotional didn't seem to be for me, but I can see it being valuable for the right reader.
December 17, 2018
Exactly what I needed. I woudl recommend this devotional to all LGBTQ people and their families. I am on to the next one and looking forward to reading WhereTrue Love is.
August 30, 2021
This book is life-changing. I spent most of my life being told that you can't change your gender that God made you the gender you were born with, and to want to change it an abomination to God. Then I read this book, and my eyes were opened. After abandoning my faith in order to come to terms with my transgender self, this book confirms and got through to me that God loves me for me, and my gender is just that a gender.
January 1, 2021
3.5
It was good for me to journey with this book. I appreciate thinking about how familiar scriptures would be heard from a trans* lens.
It was good for me to journey with this book. I appreciate thinking about how familiar scriptures would be heard from a trans* lens.
February 4, 2019
An adequate overview of transgender bible engagement
This book was an adequate engagement of trans, nonbinary and gender non conforming engagement with biblical texts. I wouldn't strongly recommend it,but it's also not the worst thing I've read.
This book was an adequate engagement of trans, nonbinary and gender non conforming engagement with biblical texts. I wouldn't strongly recommend it,but it's also not the worst thing I've read.
September 29, 2020
A must read for LGBTQIA Christians.
October 27, 2024
beautifully written and an enormous comforting guide to devout trans christians
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