Book Chapter

‘Restoring the Broken Image’: The Language of Gender and Sexuality in an Ex-Gay Ministry

2005

In this chapter I explore the ways in which religious beliefs about the nature of gender impact and affect both language and linguistic practice in an ex-gay ministry.
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Dissertation

Sexual and spiritual identity transformation among ex-gays and ex-ex-gays: Narrating a new self.

2004

This dissertation is a qualitative sociolinguistic study of the ways in which certain groups of evangelical Christians dealing with same-sex attraction use narrative to
negotiate perceived conflicts between their sexual and religious identities.
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Academic Paper

It’s not coming out, so then what is it? Sexual identity and the exgay narrative.

2003

In this paper, I analyze the personal narratives of “ex-gay” individuals who are attempting to transform their sexual identity in order to bring this identity in line with their understanding of evangelical Christian theology.
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