News from the Edge Vampires of Vermont

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The newest case for Savvy McKinnon, a reporter who sniffs out bigfoots, aliens and angels. This time, an interview with a vampire goes from dead to worse...

"If the Cat Who... books could meet The X-Files...a mystery with a blend of science and fiction that will leave readers looking for more News From the Edge."--Laurell K. Hamilton

"Fast-paced, amusing..."--Locus

"Sheer entertainment!"--The Midwest Book Review

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What To Do When You Get Bit..........2005-10-12

Nothing I can find on Amazon about this writer, so apparently he/she is using an alias. Before the series from which this story comes, there was another called "Magic: The Gathering" using different writers for the separate episodes. Mark Sumner did THE PRODIGAL SORCERER. Then, he came up with the series, "News From the Edge" about a tabloid which is 99% trash.

In this one, the female reporter who 'works' for something called 'Global Query,' and sets out to interview a real-live vampire. Williams Crossing here is based on Chester, Vermont, in many ways. In 2000, NBC used these three books, others are INSANITY, ILLINOIS and THE MONSTER OF MINNESOTA, as a fill-in midseason replacement; didn't see it so don't know how they stretched these three short novels into a t.v. series.

There was something similar on the SciFi cable channel in 2001 called 'The Chronicle.' The female reporter has much to learn about interviews. First, with a vampire, you don't stand close enough for him to bite you anywhere. When's the body disappears completely, she has to wonder had it been a ghost, apparition, or merely a figment of her imagination. She wants to find some truth out there, but no, this has nothing in common with the "Cat Who" books, nor George Martin's book about vampires. Now, that is a scary book. These make-believe monsters are like something out of a low-budget movie (and that's pure nonsense).

The Books that The Chronicle is based on.......2001-07-28

If you have been watching The Chronicle on the Sci Fi Channel then you know that these are the books that the series is based on. What you may not know is that the books are different than the series! The books have a girl reporter named Savvy and the paper she works at is not the World Chronicle. In this book Savvy investigates a story about a vampire. The story is exciting with some violence and a lot of strange things happening. but dont expect to see Tucker or the other people from the Chronicle! I can see how they got the idea for the tv show from these books but they changed a lot of things. The book is funny and I will read more of them.

An okay book........2001-04-12

This was an interesting read. Savvy McKinnon is a reporter for a gossip paper much like The Globe. She has been doing an artice on Count Yorga, a self-porclaimed vamipre. Savvy get's a call from the Count, and he's not pleased. The next thing that Savvy know's is that she's on her way to do an "interview with a vampire". Then the Count drops dead, and bites her in the process, Savvy's life will change. She is getting pale, and smack dab in the middle mystery. Savvy had to find out who killed the Count, why he was killed, and how can she stay alive. Alls in a days work for a reporter.

The char were weak and not really developed. I felt that most of the char's could have been in a Film Noir movie, complete with the cheesy dialouge and the predictible (in the Film Noir world) situations that the chars found themself in.

This is a shrt book of just under 200 pages and is a quick read. If you're looking for a detailed vampire book, this isn't it. Granted, this isn't a bad read, just don't expect to much.

Condider this as a book that starts off as a watered down vampire book with an X-Files ending.

You might want to give this book a chance. There was a lot of toung and cheekness to it.

Lukewarm.......2000-07-06

Savvy (Savannah) Mckinnon is a reporter for the tabloid "Global Query". As such, she often finds herself pursuing bizarre events barely qualifying as news. In this installment of the NEWS FROM THE EDGE series, Savvy is on the trail of a self-proclaimed vampire. When she travels to meet Count Yorga, she expects a quickie interview and easy story; what she finds is a murder mystery and conspiracy with herself smack dab in the middle of the action.
This is a light, quick read and at just under 200 pages, I was able to finish it in one sitting. I truly enjoyed the wry humor laced throughout the story, but I never felt as if the characters are fully fleshed out. This might be a good one to finish up by the pool or on the beach. But if you're looking for hard hitting vampire fiction, skip this one.

Entertaining, but...........2000-05-21

I was expecting more of a supernatural ala X-Files style. Instead I kept thinking "This is what would happen if Lou Grant had sent Mary Tyler Moore to get a story." Definitely light reading.

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find queer folk in scripture

The "Febreeze" of Religion

Can I Be Gay & Christian

Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus & the Bible (Millennium Edition)
Nancy Wilson
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The Queer Bible Commentary

TAKE BACK THE WORD - A QUEER READING OF THE BIBLE

Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church

Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 334)

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Great Reading.......2007-08-11

The Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson's very readable and engaging presentation is inspiring and gives the reader a glimpse into the heart of a lesbian and clearly Christian pastor. The book radiates the warmth of God's love and challenges the reader to a deeper commitment to discipleship. It would have been even better and would have received 5 stars had the publisher retained more of the material from the original work. Why did they drop so much out? A great book to read and give as gifts to friends and family who simply don't get what it means to be gay and Christian or who are looking for a way to deepen their Christian walk.

find queer folk in scripture.......2001-06-10

In a day when the marginalized are encouraged to read the scriptures for themselves,and not have them spoonfed or crammed down their throats, this is good news indeed. Surely a gay historian kept the notes for the temple decorations, and another told us about Vashti and Esther; Did David and Jonothan have a platonic relationship? And what about John? Nancy Wilson gives queer folk a whole new perspective.

The "Febreeze" of Religion.......2000-08-30

I purchased "Our Tribe" during a time of spiritual searching. Feeling alienated intellectually, and as a woman, from the church of my youth I hoped I might find similarities between mine and gay experience. Reverend Wilson writes in a bravely honest, deliberate, thoughtful, and challenging way. I was heartened at many points in the book, and laughed with relief at many of her insights.

Reverend Wilson proves that "thinking" and "Christian" are not opposing terms. And in her thoughtfulness she draws forth the warmth of Spirit that is available to all God's children.

"Our Tribe" is the "Febreeze" of religion, removing the nasty must and mold, while letting in fresh air and light.

Can I Be Gay & Christian.......2000-07-25

When you finally admit that you have not "straightened" yourself out, and neither can your church. This book offers a sincere look at your relationship with God, your sexuality, and the bible.

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The Eros of the Trinity

The Queer God
Ma Althaus-Reid
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There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter churches with love letters hidden in their bags, because their need for God and their need for love refuse to fit into different compartments. But what goodness and righteousness can prevail if you are in love with someone whom you are ecclesiastically not supposed to love? Where is God in a salsa bar? The Queer God introduces a new theology from the margins of sexual deviance and economic exclusion. Its chapters on bisexual theology, Sadean holiness, gay worship in Brazil and queer sainthood mark the search for a different face of God--the Queer God who challenges the oppressive powers of heterosexual orthodoxy, whiteness, and global capitalism. Inspired by the transgressive spaces of Latin American spirituality, where the experiences of slum children merge with queer interpretations of grace and holiness, The Queer God seeks to liberate God from the closet of traditional Christian thought, and to embrace God's part in the lives of gays, lesbians, and the poor. Only a theology that dares to be radical can show us the presence of God in our times. The Queer God creates a concept of holiness that overcomes sexual and colonial prejudices and shows how queer theology is ultimately the search for God's own deliverance. Using liberation theology and queer theory, it exposes the sexual roots that underlie all theology, and takes the search for God to new depths of social and sexual exclusion.

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The Eros of the Trinity.......2007-05-31

Althaus-Reid, Ma. "The Queer God", Routledge, 2003.

The Eros of the Trinity

Amos Lassen and Literary Pride

"The Queer God" is provocative to say the least. It is also an important book that is very disturbing.
It is no way dogma. In fact, it is disreputable but it is also poetic and witty and extremely questionable--not to mention expensive--$125.00.
Just what is the queer God? We know that not every gay person is anti-religion. There are some that go to gay bars with rosaries in their pockets. Others erect chapels in their homes. Many feel the need for God right along with the need for love but some reason there people do not fit anywhere. The question is what happens if you love someone that your religion says that you can't. Exactly where is God in a gay bar? What "The Queer God" gives us is a new theology which accounts for what is known as sexual deviance and exclusion because of economics. The book includes chapters on gay worship around the world but basically centered in Brazil, bisexual theology, and looking for queer sainthood. The book looks for God with a different face, a queer God who challenges heterosexuality, white supremacy and global capitalism. The basis for the thoughts expressed here come from the spirituality of Latin America where the melting pot of all kinds of people truly exists.
The book aims the take God out of the closet of Christian traditionalism and to bring him into the lives of those oppressed---homosexual men and women and the poor. A radical ideology such as this, according to Althaus-Reid, shows the presence of God in modern theology. We get a new concept of holiness which does not pay heed to economic and sexual prejudice. Only a new queer theology brings about a search for God's love and deliverance. Merging theories of liberation with queer theory exposes what undermines theology. In this way, God is brought to a new place and social and sexual exclusion is done away with.
I have no idea what to do to bring this new theology about. Reading about it sounds wonderful but we need are the tools to make it happen.

Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest

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Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
Bernard Duncan Mayes
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This fascinating memoir by a gay British priest begins in London in 1929, when Bernard Mayes emerged from his heavily sedated mother, and, according to the practice of the day, was sequestered by doctors for a month, returning to her sickly and fretful. By turns political, confessional, and spiritual, Mayes's tale is entertaining and well written. Coming of age during the rise of Nazism in Europe, he began having affairs with boyhood chums, then moved on to seminary where the "pad, pad, pad of feet and the rustle of cassocks down the ever-creaking corridors during the night was not always evidence of devoted meditations." A gay priest in a culture where love "is damnably suppressed, denied, and hidden ... to please intellectual tyrants claiming to speak for God," Mayes eventually helped found a small congregation of like-minded gay and lesbian Christians in the Castro district of San Francisco, in the years just before the outbreak of AIDS.

All the elements of a blockbuster movie are here--sex, oppression, and the Sturm und Drang of romance--set against a wider historical backdrop. Mayes's introspective retelling of his journey--from his staid Anglican roots, to a tour of the American South at the height of the civil rights movement, and finally to the gay mecca of San Francisco--should resonate with anyone who appreciates the ways in which history is both made and reflected in our private lives.--Jack Connolly

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He survived a turbulent childhood in war-torn London, earned degrees with honors from Cambridge University, was ordained in the Church of England, became an Anglican worker-priest, and emigrated to the United States.

He has been a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, helped organize the Public Broadcasting System in America, was a founding chairman of National Public Radio, and became a senior management consultant for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

He designed and directed the first system of suicide and crisis counseling centers in California (a model for later centers nationwide) and helped found the Parsonage, an Episcopalian ministry on behalf of gay rights in the Castro section of San Francisco. And all the while, Bernard Duncan Mayes struggled to reconcile his views on sexuality--and his experience as a gay man--with his theological and cultural beliefs.

In an entirely honest and engaging voice, Mayes offers considerably more than autobiographical recollections of his life as priest, journalist, university teacher and administrator, and gay rights activist. Throughout Escaping God's Closet, Bernard Mayes recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system, but led him to revelations about sexuality, Christianity, and the nature of human existence itself.

Winner of the 2002 Lambda Literary Spirituality Award

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A sweeping book.......2002-03-18

Bernard Mayes is a visionary. Escaping God's Closet is a book of startling scale, as it is more than an autobiography. It's a thesis on what existence means, with Mayes's life presented as the evidence. Everything is connected, we are all mutually interdependent...and we must all escape "God's closet" in order to form the ties that bind and ultimately help us to survive.

God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible

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Queer - and very very good

God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible
Stephen Moore
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ASIN: 0804743320
Release Date: 2001-08-29

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God’s Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. Through a series of dazzling rereadings staged not only in God’s beauty parlor, but also in God’s boudoir, locker room, and war room, the author pursues the themes of homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans, and the Book of Revelation.
He ponders such matters as the curious place of the Song of Songs in the history of sexuality, or how an apparent paean to male-female love became a pretext for literary cross-dressing for legions of male Jewish and Christian commentators; Jesus’ face and physique in relation to ideologies of beauty, ranging from the patristic era, when the “earthly” Jesus was regularly represented as ugly, to the contemporary global culture industry, with its trademark equation of looks with worth; the gendered and sexual substratum of Paul’s doctrine of salvation embedded in his most influential epistle—not least his gendering of righteousness as masculine and sin as feminine; and the intimate imbrication of masculinity and mass death in Revelation, a book about war making men making war-making men . . . some of whom also happen to be gods.
God’s Beauty Parlor is an exhilarating attempt to bring some of the most significant currents in contemporary gender studies to bear on a text that, even in the post-Christian West, remains the ultimate cultural icon, cipher, and shibboleth.

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New Ideas.......2007-05-22

Moore, Stephen D. "God's Beauty Parlor and Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible", Stanford University Press, 2001.

New Ideas

Amos Lassen and Literary Pride

Opening the Bible to issues contested on sex and sexuality is no easy task. Critical commentary, from queer studies to looks at masculinity, have looked at the Bible many times to receive some kind of validation of ideas. Stephen Moore rereads the Bible as if it is about both God's bedroom and His beauty parlor, locker room, and war room. In doing so he looks at the themes of homosexuality, beauty, masculinity and violence by examining the Gospels, the Song of Songs, Letter to the Romans and the Book of Revelation and it is a revelation to see what he finds.
I found his approach to "The Song of Songs" particularly interesting as he looks at its place in sexual history. We have always looked at "The Song of Songs" as an ode to male-female love. Moore maintains that it s a "pretext for literary cross-dressing for legions of male Jewish and Christian commentators".
Looking at Jesus, he views his face and body as related to ideologies of beauty and shows how once he was represented regularly as "earthy". His acquired good looks are important to the global industry of religion.
Paul's doctrine of salvation shows how the good are of masculine gender while sin is associated with femininity. Finally in "The Book of Revelation" which is basically about war and man making war shows that war, indeed, makes men.
Bringing some of the main ideas of modern gender study to Biblical text is an interesting look at the Holy Book. The scholarship of the book is intense, creative and controversial to the letter of the word. What is especially interesting is that Moore addresses both masculinity and violence in his study. The material that he examines are looked at both playfully and seriously--not an easy task when looking at texts that are revered.
Moore also discusses the masculinity of the apostles, an issue that has concerned people for ages. Bringing the most modern concepts of gender studies to the Bible is itself a task not easily dealt with, Moore's book has so much to say and is so entertaining that I can say, for myself, at least, that I will never be able to read it in the same way.

Queer - and very very good.......2001-11-05

Here are four papers, of a distinctly dubious nature, that were written by Professor Moore over a number of years (and having gone through a number of versions) that are now presented in conjunction with Moore's interest, no, fixation with the sexual and the aesthetic.

These papers are dubious from an academic perspective because although the subjects be biblical, and although Moore be a biblical scholar, the papers are not what you would expect biblical studies papers to be about. Well, that is to say that this formerly would have been the case. Moore is one of a growing band of scholars who are being so bold as to make the Bible an object of culture rather than a straightforwardly "given" text which is interrogated as a theological or, perhaps, historical product. Thus, in this book we find something which might, at first, seem more the product of someone in an English Department or, maybe, a Cultural Studies Department. For here we find Queer Theory, Autobiographical Criticism and a good deal of ideology. This is to say that the book is multi-disciplinary in its approach.

The subjects of the four papers, most of them items which have appeared elsewhere before in briefer forms, are "The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality" (a matter of, amongst other things, cross-dressing and breast pumps), "On the Face and Physique of the Historical Jesus" (why does he always appear so damn beautiful?), "Sex and the Single Apostle" (that is, Paul and homosexuality and Romans) and "Revolting Revelations" (the Revelation to John and Irish mythology and 4 Maccabees). In keeping with Moore's studied and precise style, these are very absorbing pieces, not least for their author's disarming (not to say alarming) penchant for autobiography. Will we ever tire of hearing about his butcher father, his drug-induced introduction to Christianity and his own sexuality (about which he is more engagingly coy)? Not, I suggest, if he writes about it like this.

So far this might not seem to be the average book in the biblical studies catalogue. And that would be right. For Moore is an outstanding observer of the biblical field. Who else has even questioned the APPEARANCE of the historical Jesus? It is in approaching topics like this, and in asking questions 99% of biblical scholars not only would not but do not ask, that makes Moore such a breath of fresh air in the biblical academy. Of course, his choice of subjects and his autobiographical turn might turn off readers and prospective readers. But this is where there is a sting in Moore's tail. For Moore is an absolutely brilliant writer and a first grade scholar. If you come to this book with a cynical attitude hoping that Moore's scholarship will be sloppy and so you can easily dispose of him you will go away disappointed. In this book (as in his others) Moore does not give you that option.

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A Must Read.......2000-05-20

Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson's ground-breaking book is a must read for GLBT spiritulists.

Gentle Stretching, understanding difference in the church.......2000-04-18

Wow, what an experience. This book doesn't try to apologise for being gay or lesbian friendly, affirming and encouraging. The author gently relates a history of a people totally focussed on loving God but who must continually demonstrate their resilience and love for a church which does not accept homosexuality or transgendered people. It is unlikely that anyone will instantly agree with each tenet of the author but Rev Wilson does take an orderly, sensitive approach to helping us see historical perspectives which have often been misread or mistranslated and so have lead to incredibly severe persecution of sexual minorities. Rev Wilson then goes on to stretch our views of what a truly inclusive church could look like. I was challenged, sometimes unable to hold the book or think about what I was told and sometimes unable to put it down. A great primer for people new to the gay/lesbian scene or caring people who want to understand more.

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God Comes Out: A Queer Homiletic
Olive Elaine Hinnant
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Queer eye for the hate guy: I just want my picture snapped with the best sign: God abhors you. Though, as bases for acronyms go, it's not as catchy as ... (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

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Queer eye for the hate guy: I just want my picture snapped with the best sign: God abhors you. Though, as bases for acronyms go, it's not as catchy as ... (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Dave White
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Release Date: 2007-09-28

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