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Acknowledgments

Thanks be to God that we live in a time when dialogue on same-gender marriage is possible! And that we may do so in the Body of Christ, the church!

And thanks be to God for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community that has been an extended family for me!

Thanks to publisher Davis Perkins and editor Susan Erdey and others at Church Publishing for believing in this book, and to Susan for serving as an encouraging and helpful editor.

I am grateful for the scholarship of all whose work has shaped my thinking and graced this book, but in particular I wish to thank John Boswell, Bernadette Brooten, Stephanie Coontz, Bill Countryman, Marvin Ellison, Margaret Farley, Daniel Helminiak, Carter Heyward, Mary Hunt, James B. Nelson, Henri Nouwen, Jonathan Rauch, Jack Rogers, and John Witte, Jr.

My greatest inspiration for all of my writings have been the writers of the Bible and especially Jesus, who never wrote a thing, but whose life and sayings model for me inclusive compassion and spiritual maturity.

Thanks to cover designer Jennifer Glosser, book designer MediaLynx Group, Inc., and proofreader Gabriella Page-Fort for making this book all it could be. Thanks to all who market, distribute, and sell this book. All of these are the unsung heroes of the publishing business.

I thank my family—Wade Jones, our dog, Hobbes, and our late dog, Calvin—for their love and care of me.

And thanks to you, the reader, for joining me in this conversation on the blessing of same-gender marriage for all of us. May the conversation on marriage bless us all.

C.R.G