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A Queer Christmas
Paperback
Publisher: New Theology School Press
Published: Mar 9 2026
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Queer Christmas by Jeff Hood is a bold, heartfelt retelling of the Nativity story, transplanted to the heart of contemporary Texas. In Denton County-amid live oaks, barns, migrant fields, and the quiet streets of small towns-God breaks through in wild, uncontainable ways. This is no sanitized holiday tale: here, the divine is explicitly queer, disruptive, and fiercely on the side of the outcast, the too-much, the too-loud, the too-alive.
Follow two devoted men, Bob and Tommy, who receive a glittering angelic visitation and welcome a child of promise into their home. Witness Mary and Josie, queer women navigating love, labor, and exile as they birth Jesus in a humble barn. Watch migrant workers gaze up from cold earth to see a sky ablaze with light, then run toward the miracle. Journey with a family across deserts, fleeing danger, and find an old dreamer who waits decades for recognition.
Through these interwoven stories, Hood reclaims the gospel for those pushed to the margins-queer people, immigrants, the forgotten, the defiant. Set against the backdrop of Texas politics and rigid norms, the narrative celebrates queerness not as an add-on but as the very essence of God's liberating, boundary-shattering love.
A Queer Christmas is for anyone who has ever felt too much for the world, yet knows deep down they were made exactly right. It is tender, provocative, glitter-dusted theology wrapped in a Texas-sized miracle. Read it slowly. Let it argue with you. Let it reach you.
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