RELIGION:
MENNONITES
Bender, Philip.
“Resources for the Church’s Debate on Sexuality.” Canadian Mennonite 4(24)
(December 11, 2000): 10-12 (1842 words).
Although the four books provided as resources are American publications,
the article has been included to suggest degree of interest in
discussion within this denomination.
Body of Dissent.
See VIDEOS section of this list for fuller information.
“Booklets Advocate for Same-Sex Covenants.” Canadian Mennonite 5(21)
(November 5, 2001): 13-14.
Welcome to Dialogue series.
“Churches Publicly Welcome Homosexual People:
12 Mennonite and Church
of the Brethren Congregations Which Publicly Welcome
Homosexual
Members.” Mennonite
Reporter 25(22) (Nov. 13, 1995): 14.
“Conference Accepts Homosexuality Report.” Mennonite Reporter 23(9)
(May 3, 1993): 3.
“Conference Has Mixed Response to Report on
Homosexual Concerns.”
Mennonite Reporter 23(8) (April 19, 1993): 1, 3.
General Board of General Conference,
“Congregation Goes Public with Support for Homosexual Persons; Conference
Responds to Warden Decision.” Canadian Mennonite 5(8) (April 23, 2001):
20-21.
These two closely-related articles concern the Warden Woods
Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada to their consideration of
joining the Supportive Congregations Network. Very brief
background information as well on official position of church as
expressed
in conference statements of
and Stratford (1998).
Dykeman, Kathryn
Lynn, 1960-
“The Welcoming Congregation Movement and the Experiences of Lesbian
Women in the Christian Church.” M.Th. thesis,
2002.
(165 leaves)
Refs.:
also AMICUS catalogue record no. 28298269, which notes, from thesis
abstract, that the “research project examines the church experiences of
seventeen lesbian women who were participants in at least one of the
following groups: Christian Lesbians Out (CLOUT), the Brethren and
Mennonite Council for Gay and Lesbian Concerns (BMC), and Olive
Enns, Aiden S.
“Conference
Guidelines for Dealing with Disagreements [on non-celibate
homosexuals].” Canadian
Mennonite 2(10) (May 11, 1998): 19 (439 words).
Conference of Mennonites in
Funk, Neil Unrau.
“Alberta Churches Share
Responses to Homosexuality.”
Canadian
Mennonite 3(24) (Dec. 6, 1999): 16-17 (1225 words).
Funk, Neil Unrau.
“Next Step for Alberta Conference Still Not
Clear [annual meeting:
(March
6, 2000): 16-17 (1104
words).
Gays; Alberta; Mennonite Church.
Funk-Unrau, Neil.
“Alberta Churches Share Responses to Homosexuality.” Canadian Mennonite
3(24) (December 6, 1999): 16-17 (1225 words)
“After three days of intense dialogue, the issue of church membership
for homosexual people seems as overwhelming and divisive as ever.
However, congregations within the Conference of Mennonites in
be heard” – from opening paragraph of full text online in CBCA
Fulltext Reference electronic database (accession no. 4732194).
Funk-Unrau,
Neil.
“
Canadian Mennonite 4(7) (April 3, 2000): 13.
Response
by some of those in Conference of Mennonites in
decisions on church membership in relation to gays/lesbians.
Gascho, Rob.
“Opting In: A History of the Brethren and Mennonite Council for Gay and
Lesbian Concerns: (The Mennonite Perspective).” Term paper, University of
(17 leaves, with bibliography leaf 17)
Harder,
“Church
Membership Begins with God’s Acceptance: We Should Not Exclude
Homosexual
People from Our Churches, Argues This Writer.”
Canadian
Mennonite 3(18) (Sept. 13, 1999): 10-11 (1704 words).
“How [Mennonite] Congregations Are Dealing with
Homosexuality.”
Mennonite Reporter 21(24) (Dec. 9, 1991): 12.
Nighswander, Dan.
“Paul Would Have Approved the Resolution on
Homosexuality.”
Canadian
Mennonite 2(24) (Dec. 7, 1998): 8-9 (1016 words).
Excerpt of letter to pastors.
Paetkau, Walter.
“At the Assembly with Paul and Amy.” Canadian Mennonite 5(15)
(August 13, 2001): 10 (776 words)
Concerns Paul Neudorf, Amy Short, and Brethren/Mennonite
Council
for Lesbian & Gay Concerns (BMC)
“Pastor’s Stance Spurs Congregation to Study Homosexuality.” Canadian Mennonite
6(12)(June 17, 2002): 16-17.
Smith, Graeme.
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Ref.: CPI.Q index.
“Supporting Congregations Increasing While
Conference Policy Remains
Unchanged
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Mennonite
Reporter 26(16) (Aug. 19, 1996): 4 (1097 plus 430 words).
“Three [Mennonite] Groups
That Care about People with Different Love.”
Mennonite Reporter 21(4) (Feb. 18, 1991): 10.