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  Theology of Hope and Healing From A Bisexual Transman with Depression and Anxiety Introduction There’s a questionnaire that I answer often. It’s called a safety plan. The full gist of this questionnaire is that it will be used in case I have suicidal ideations or express suicidal behavior. There are two questions that stunt my progress. “Why do you value your life?” and “what brings you hope?”. I don’t know. I’m discerning if I’m looking for a theology of hope or a theology of healing. Formed in the Presbyterian tradition the answers are easy. I have hope in the resurrection and the life ever after. I value my life because God, creator, father, beginner knitted me in my mother’s womb and knew me by name. Fairly rehearsed. There’s something missing, a bridge from theology on paper to my lived experiences. My first quiz in Seminary was to rehearse John Calvin’s definition of faith which included the words “a firm and certain knowledge…both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our ...

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Books Published As Sopphey Vance


Cover for Old Horizons (2020)

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON—In a perilous uncertain world, it is okay to be overwhelmed and to grieve. Old Horizons are not happy poems. But Sopphey invites you to weep with him a little bit. In the same way he'd weep with you.




Cover for Soul's Dance & Other Erotica (2020)

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON—Erotic short stories of love and desire and everything in between.


Cover for For The Seasons (2015)

AVAILABLE ON AMAZONFor the Seasons is Sopphey Vance's first ever collection of gender queer and transgender romantic poetry, albeit erotic at times. The poetry, like the relationship it's based on, moves through four seasons—between two genders and timeless genres of love.


Cover for Dreams in Espresso and Other Drugs (2014)

AVAILABLE ON AMAZONDreams in Espresso And Other Drugs is a tale of visits to the coffee shop and writing the entire night. Never stopping for sleep because when sleep comes witches buy and sell souls to the demons guard all. But it never ends at coffee, once the coffee buzz dies the doors of wine and spirits open wide. And sleep, it never comes not until all dreams die.



Cover for Rose Colored Lenses, Jaded Prescription (2012)

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON—Broken hearts, like broken glass, can cut so deep; especially when the one who strews the minefield is unaware of the sinister role they have taken in your life. In his first poetry collection Sopphey Vance bravely explores that most important—yet often most hidden—subject: love.


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