Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for gender-queer and transgender people (The Where True Love Is Devotionals) Paperback – June 23, 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.

Great study. Some of the verses referred to make you wonder if some people have read that part.

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.

Suzanne shares from her biblical knowledge and her heart a message that so many of us need to hear: God sees us, God knows us and God loves us. When you have fought gender dysphoria all of your life and had religious guilt and shame heaped on top, it becomes easy to believe that I/we are nothing more than sinners who deserve every bit of hell we are due. But we are not. We are loved. I am loved! I am loved by the God who made me to be who I am. This book reminded me, even on a 3rd reading, that my greatest sin is rejecting who I was created to be for so long, which is a transgender woman.I’ve bought this book for others on their journey and will gladly continue to do so!

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.

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.

So much religious writing about LGBT people is focused merely on toleration. This is gem of a 40 day devotional goes beyond that: it is a celebration of LGBT identity within Christianity. Each daily reading is a bite-size meditation on a different passage of Scripture, with beautiful commentary by the author. I went read through it this past Lent and was deeply moved.If you are an LGBT Christian struggling to reconcile the two halves of your identity, if you simply feel the need for spiritual affirmation, or if you're the friend or relative of one, I highly recommend this book.

Suzanne DeWitt Hall has captured what it means to let God control the transformation of your life. It is time to be who God created you to be. Each individual whether LGBTQAI+ or Heterosexual, when you let God guide you you will be transformed into the beautiful person you are truly meant to be.