Congregational Care
10 Reasons Your Church Should Be Welcoming and Affirming
“Scripture as a whole testifies to a God who invites people from the margins to the center.” In this article by AWAB Pastor Art Wright of Williamsburg Baptist Church, Rev. Wright describes the many reasons that a church should become welcoming and affirming. One of...
Called Out With (Stories of Solidarity)
Called Out With presents itself as compendium and complement to the book Called Out: Voices and Gifts of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Presbyterians. Here you will read stories of friends, family, and allies who work beside lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
In The Eye Of The Storm: Swept To The Center By God
In this meandering but charming book, Robinson, the controversial gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, addresses sexuality and theology. He argues that the cause for which the planets “seem to be aligned” today is full civil rights of GLBT people. Many of the...
Congregations Talking About Homosexuality: Dialogue On A Difficult Issue
Gaede skillfully weaves together the stories of many congregations and how they faced and dealt with the issue of homosexuality. A helpful resource for assisting congregations that seek to engage in dialogue about one of the most difficult faith issues today, the book...
Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church
Gay and lesbian Christians are in the awkward position of trying to explain themselves to two mutually hostile audiences. On the one side, the gay-lesbian community is often deeply suspicious of anyone connected with Christianity. On the other side sits the church,...
A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men into African American Congregations
This book features interviews with twenty black scholars and religious leaders who speak out--from various theological perspectives--against institutional prejudice toward gay and lesbian people. The interviews are conducted in a conversational format in language that...
All Whom God Has Joined: Resources for Clergy and Same-Gender Loving Couples
With a foreword by the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, All Whom God Has Joined: Resources for Clergy and Same-Gender Loving Couples provides a unique collection of liturgical and ceremonial resources, as well as pastoral care tools and insights, on same-sex covenanting...
Coming Out through Fire: Surviving the Trauma of Homophobia
Coming Out through Fire is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons who seek to move through the trauma of homophobia with the passion and power of transformation. It is also for pastors, therapists, and other helping professionals who seek to confront...
Sex In The Parish
Karen Lebacqz and Ronald Barton examine the gift of sexuality in relation to the parish and the dynamics of sexual desire and temptation. Included in this book are the expreiences of a pastor who did not set appropriate limits; explainations of how the pastoral role...
Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care
This practical pastoral care handbook, written by two self-described queer people of faith, covers the basic skills that religious caregivers and ministry students need in order to be effective, enlightened, and supportive pastoral care providers to LGBTQ persons in...
Discovering Images of God: Narratives of Care Among Lesbians and Gays
In a prejudiced society, the experiences of lesbians and gays can provide powerful resources for all people to help shape their images of God. Larry Graham has interviewed lesbians and gays across the country and has discovered a new sense of God at work through all...
Equal Rites: Lesbian and Gay Worship, Ceremonies, and Celebrations
Equal Rites is a much-needed collection of worship services, ceremonies, and celebrations that is attuned to the unique needs of sexual minorities. The selections, written primarily by lesbians and gay men, include rites of spiritual beginnings, healing, blessings,...
Fall From Grace
For years, the Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church have preached a message of intolerance and hatred, aimed at homosexuals. This compelling documentary shines a spotlight on Phelps and his followers, widely condemned as a hate group. K. Ryan Jones's debut...