Open Hands Issue Index

The quarterly journal, Open Hands was published by the Reconciling Ministries Network (formerly, the Reconciling Congregation Program / United Methodist) from 1986 to 2002.

Initially seeking to serve as "a resource for congregations and individuals seeking to be in ministry with lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons", the latter issues reflect an expanded mission, namely, to serve as the quarterly magazine of the Welcoming Church movement in the United States and Canada.

The Open Hands Collection is CLGS's archive of journal issues, from which articles are published here in this online resource library. These articles are published online with express permission of The Reconciling Congregation Program, Inc.

The articles from Open Hands available online extend from the Fall 1995 (Vol. 11 No. 2) to Spring 2002 (Vol. 17, No. 4) issues. The articles listed here also may be browsed as part of our comprehensive author index and topics index.

November 2004. Please note: we are in the process of adding the full text of all the articles listed below. For any article listed, a link goes to the full text as a web page, or a PDF document when indicated. The absence of a link indicates that the full text is forthcoming.

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Open Hands, Vol. 11, No. 2.

• "A Litany for Freedom." By Randy Miller.
   
• Coming Out Old: Issues of Ageism and Privilege. By Dorothy Jean Furnish.
   
• "Diversity, Privilege, and Faith: Studying Connections." By Ben Roe.
   
• Exploring Disability and Privilege. By Fred Berchtold.
   
• Gender Privilege: A Rural Clergy Couple's Conversation. By Mitchell Hay and Barbara Lemmel.
   
• Heterosexuality: A Privileged Place. By Patricia Beattie Jung.
   
• Identifying Race Privilege: From One White to Another. By Jennifer Simpson.
   
• Making Tangled Roots Visible. By Mary Jo Osterman.
   
• The Elite and the Other: Thoughts on Classism. By Rosemary Radford Ruether and Karen L. Bloomquist.
   
• The People of the Eyes. By John Sumwalt.
   
• To Denominational Gate Keepers: A Call to Action. By Howard B. Warren, Jr.
   
• Transforming Despair Into Hope . By Melanie Morrison.
   
• "What Is Your Risk Factor?" No Author.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 11, No. 3.

• All Things to All People. By Cornelius Kanhai.
   
• Crumbs from the Master's Table. By Paul W. Egertson.
   
• Dealing with Diversity. By Toinette M. Eugene.
   
• Homosexuality in the Evangelical Experience. By Howard H. Bess.
   
• The Caring Shepherd: A Parable for Children. By Margaret Lirones.
   
• "Transformation in Front of Our Own Eyes." By Dody S. Matthias.
   
• Valuing Differences: A Process of Experience. By DeeAnna P. Merz with Al Duvall.
   
• "Weave: A Song."
   
• "Weaving Diversity and Unity: A Liturgy." By Cathy Ann Beaty.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 11, No. 4.

• A Letter from Corinth — and A Response. By John Aldridge; Elders of Corinth; and John A. Ekman.
   
• "At Issue for Us." By George Williamson, Jr.
   
• "Caught In Between!" By Allen V. Harris.
   
• "Conflicts of Autonomy." By Brenda J. Moulton.
   
• "Conflicts of Conscience." By Martha Juillerat.
   
• "Creative Conversationalist (a prayer)." By Laurene Lafontaine.
   
• Engaging in Civil Discourse. By Donald E. Bossart.
   
• "Eternal God (a prayer)." By John Trompen.
   
• Faithful to our Past and Future. By J. Bennett Guess.
   
• "God of all time and space." By Robert W. Mattheis.
   
• "Holy Word (a prayer)." By Richard Koteras.
   
• "Holy Word (a prayer)." By Rob Cummings.
   
• "Living in the Tensions." By David D. Otto.
   
• Living Relationships: Living in Christ. By John Linscheid.
   
• Living with Institutional Conflicts. By Robert W. Mattheis and Sierra Pacific Synod Council.
   
• Living with our Differences. By Brenda J. Moulton and Howard Miller.
   
• "Modeling Skills for Living with Conflict." By Ignacio Castuera.
   
• "Passionate God (a prayer)." By Scott Anderson.
   
• "Sacred Potter (a prayer)." By Laurie Kraus.
   
• "Saving Face/Saving Relationship." By Virstan B.Y. Choy.
   
• "Shall Unmarried Couples Be Introduced Together?" By Tim Eudy.
   
• "Slow us Down, Sacred Spirit (a prayer)." By Georgeanne Wilcoxson.
   
• "Sowing Trust at the Borders: A Response to Subversion."
   
• "Three Keys to Solving Conflict." By Herbert W. Chilstrom.
   

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Open Hands, Vol. 12, No. 1.

• "A Father's Legacy." By Sara Davis.
   
• "A Married Gay Pastor Stays In." By Jacob Guerdon Black.
   
• "Airing Out Spouses' Closets." By Donald W. Sinclair.
   
• "Allies Inside Closed Doors." By Paul Santillan.
   
• "Amazing Grace." By Judy Fell.
   
• "Breaking Silence." By Barbara McFadden.
   
• "Closeted Mom: A Sign of Respect." By Anonymous.
   
• "Coming Out!" By Erwin C. Barron.
   
• "Confession: A Male — Age 80 — 1996." By William N. Wingstrom.
   
• "God's Coming Out... In a New Reformation!" By George D. McClain.
   
• "God's Promise." By Randy Houston.
   
• "Peeking Out." By Gaye Jaynesdaughter.
   
• "Reconciling Janet." By Janet Jacobs Huebsch.
   
• "Tip." By Anita C. Hill and Susan L. Thornton.
   
• "Trouble Behind the Door." By Leanne M. Tigert.
   
• "What Is A Closet?" By Timothy Tutt.
   
• "Working as Allies: Opening Church Doors." By Betty Jo Birkhahn-Rommelfanger.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 12, No. 2.

• "A Place at the Table." By Stephanie Rodriguez.
   
• "Acts 8 in Today's Church." By Deirdre N. McCloskey and Martha L. Olney.
   
• "Double Blessing — and a Call." By Vanessa S. Ê
   
• "For Your Consideration: Sexual Integrity." By Mary E. Hunt.
   
• "Four Snapshots — Many Lessons." By Karen P. Oliveto.
   
• "I Am!" By Karen P. Oliveto.
   
• "In Transition: Vignettes." By Gloria R. Teerrill.
   
• "Medical/Therapeutic Processes — and their Critics." By Caroline Presnell.
   
• "Ministry is About Sacred Story." By Tony Ryan.
   
• "Myths, Stereotypes, and Gender Roles." By Jeanne Knepper and Andrea Abernethy. Ê
   
• "Out of the Pit, Into the Woodwork — Not!" By Jim Kocher-Hillmer.
   
• "Standing Tall: A Crossdresser's Story." By Tiffany S.
   
• "Transgenderism: Challenging the Binary." By Nancy Nangeroni.
   
• "Upside Down, Inside Out Feelings." By Hope Smith.
   
• "Wéwha of Zuni." By Robert Lentz and Bridge Building Images.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 12, No. 3.

• "Breaching a Wall of Silence in the South." By Ruth Jaeckel.
   
• "Campus Ministries: Rich Soil." By Anastasia Hacopian.
   
• "Evangelism: Broadcasting God's Grace." By George Williamson, Jr.
   
• "Old Roots, New Branches: Cultivating Inclusion in Asian-American Churches."
   
• "Opened Doors — A Transsexual's Experience." By Ashley Lynn Super.
   
• "Sowing Inclusive Love in the Rural Heartland." By Russell Grimes and Cole Williams.
   
• "Sowing Inclusivity in the Moravian Church." By Mary V. Borhek.
   
• "Sowing Seeds of Hope." No Author.
   
• "Sowing with Patient Endurance." By James Preston.
   
• "The Dual Ministries of Welcoming Churches." By Roger S. Powers.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 12, No. 4.

• "Be For Us A Model." By Timothy Kocher-Hillmer.
   
• "Companions." By Maren C. Tirabassi.
   
• "Experiences of a Bi-National Lesbian Couple." By Anonymous.
   
• "It's Not About Marriage — It's About Civil Rights." By Mel White. Ê
   
• "Legal Considerations." By Patricia V. Long.
   
• "R.S.V.P." By Susan Palmquist.
   
• "Same Sex Unions: Introduction to the Issues." By Editor.
   
• "Steps on a Journey." By Alyson Huntly.
   
• "Tapestry of Light." By Amanda Udis-Kessler.
   
• "The Church and Covenant Relationships. Moving Toward a Renewed Understanding." By David Belt. Ê
   
• "The Hawaii Case: A Summary." By Editor.
   
• "The Meaning of a Jewish Blessing." By Steven Folberg.
   
• "The Prior Question: A Theological Basis for Blessing Same-Gender Covenants." By Miriam H. Prichard.
   
• "The Wrong Question." By Tom Boller.
   

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Open Hands, Vol. 13, No. 1.

• "A Call to Affirm Sexual Minority Youth." By Harold M. Brockus.
   
• "Does It Matter." By Anonymous.
   
• "From Fear to Advocacy." By Sarah M. Reed.
   
• "Ground-Breaking Case: Gay Youth Protected." By Editor.
   
• "Harassed at Age Twelve." By Timothy Jones-Yelvington.
   
• "Home." By Timothy C. McGinley.
   
• "Learning about Jesus." By Trey Hall.
   
• "My 'Aunt Sue'." By Jeremy McCoy.
   
• "My Sanctuary." By Serenity Beal.
   
• "My Son Mitchell." By Teri Shugart Erickson.
   
• "Out of the Mouth... of a Teen." By Marsha Stevens. Ê
   
• "The College Network." By Monica Haines.
   
• "Two Schools, Two Approaches." By Natasha Fast, with Megan Fast.
   
• "Where is Sanctuary in the Catholic Church?" By John Hoffman.
   
• "Young, Gay, Dead: Suicide in Homosexual Teenagers." By Youtha C. Hardman-Cromwell.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 13, No. 2.

• "A Reconciling Meal." By Mary Pope.
   
• "Baptists and Baptism: Diversity and Spiritual Responsibility." By Timothy Phillips.
   
• "Beginning with Theology, Not Lifestyle." By Ronald Coughlin.
   
• "Bethany Tuesday: A Place at the Table." By Melanie Morrison.
   
• "Come to the Table." By Julian Rush.
   
• "Divinely Knitted in My Mother's Womb." By Dick Poole.
   
• "Eucharist Defines Who We Are." By Jeffrey Pulling.
   
• "Gathering at God's Feast." By Scott Weidler.
   
• "Native Memories." By Eleanor H. Johnson.
   
• "Reflections on the Trinitarian Formula." By Gayle Carlton Felton.
   
• "Sharing God's Grace-Filled Gifts." By Howard B. Warren, Jr.
   
• "The Baptismal Promise: A Whisper from the Womb." By Marilyn Alexander.
   
• "Welcoming Waters: Baptismal Traditions and Inclusivity Concerns." By Gayle Carlton Felton.
   
• "When I Come to the Table of Remembrance." By Skip Jones.
   
• "Wound with a View" Our Gift to the Church." By Chris Glaser.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 13, No. 3.

• "'Now I Know God Loves Me.'" by Daphne Burt.
   
• "Avoiding 'Been There/Done That'" By Diana Roger.
   
• "Border Crossing." By Mark Elam Anderson.
   
• "Bridges Over Troubled Water." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "Everyone Is Welcome Here (a hymn)." By David Golden.
   
• "How 'Welcoming' Are Youth Groups?" By Trey Hall.
   
• "How Long?" By Alyson Huntly.
   
• "Incarnating Good News." By Miriam Prichard.
   
• "Keeping Secrets — A Children's Story." By Liz Lang.
   
• "Only Say the Word..." By Bobbi Wells Hargleroad.
   
• "Six Handy Guidelines for Dialogue on 'The Issue." By Allen Fluent.
   
• "What If We Become A Gay Church?" By Lisa Ann Pierce.
   
• "Whose Church Is It, Anyway?" By Susan Laurie.
   
• "Why Be Specific in Our Welcome?" By Pay Tymchyshyn.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 13, No. 4.

• "A Sexual Desiderata." By Jim Wolfe.
   
• "A Sexual Ethic of 'Least Harm.'" by Marie Fortune.
   
• "A Work of God." By Brooke Rolston.
   
• "An Open Letter from African-American Clergy and Laity." By National Black Presbyterian Caucus.
   
• "Blessed and Challenged by Jesus: Where We Get the Chutzpah to Do Our Own Ethics." By Thomas C. Ziegert.
   
• "For the Sake of Children Like Me." By Sol Kelley-Jones. Ê
   
• "Getting Sexuality in Perspective: Cross Cultural Comparisons.
   
• "Giving Future to a Present Love." By Margaret A. Farley.
   
• "Myth, Mystery, and Human Sexuality." By John Ballew.
   
• "Outlaws and 'Inlaws'." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "Prayers of the Body." By Nancy A. Hardesty et al.
   
• "Sex in Church — Can We Talk?" By John Spring.
   
• "Sexual Ethics in an Overpopulated World: Pollution, Purity, Property, and Procreation." By Carol Robb.
   
• "Sexual Ethics Without Religion." By Daniel A. Helminiak.
   
• "Signs of God — Making Banners in Worship." By Jan Graves.
   
• "The Leadership of Jimmy Creech." By Mark Bowman.
   
• "What Makes 'Good Sex' Good?" By Marvin M. Ellison.
   
• "Why March in Gay Pride? Just Peace!" By Charles A. Wolfe.
   

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Open Hands, Vol. 14, No. 1.

• "A Bisexual Couple's Story." By John and Mary.
   
• "As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation?" By Margaret MacDonald and Dotty Kay Stillman.
   
• "Capable of Monogamy With Either Gender." By Bentley de Bardelaben.
   
• "Children of God and the Big Lie." By Timothy Tutt.
   
• "Common Ground: Exceprts from Unplugged, A Novel in Progress." By Paul McComas.
   
• "How Bisexuality May Shape Queer Theologies." By Robert E. Goss.
   
• "Lesbian - NOT! A Christian for Gender Independence." By Donna Riley.
   
• "Made in God's Image" Re-Thinking Constructs of Gender and Orientation." By Ann Thompson Cook.
   
• "No Tidy, Carefully Labeled Box." By Kate.
   
• "Parable of the Good Lesbian: Cultural and Political Bisexuality." By Laurie Aude. Ê
   
• "Pastoring Bisexual Men on Line." By Jim Wolfe.
   
• "Super-Moral-Legalistic-Conformation-Itis (a song)." By Beth Gregg and John Gregg.
   
• "Test Your ÔBi-Q': A Sexual Orientation Worksheet." By Ben Roe.
   
• "The Holy Leper and the Bisexual Christian." By Amanda Udis-Kessler. Ê
   
• "Toward A Christian Understanding of Bisexuality." By Ben Roe.
   
• "Twenty-Five years With a Woman Followed by Twenty Years With a Man." By Eugene Brink.
   
• "Youth Suicide and the White Ribbon Campaign." By Timothy Brown.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 14, No. 2.

• "'War of Ideas' — An Imbalance of Power." By Leon Howell.
   
• "A House Divided." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "A Public Apology." By Gil Alexander-Moegerle.
   
• "A Soul Divided — Rejecting a Gay Identity." By Jeff Murphy-Holt.
   
• "A Soulforce Response." By Mel White.
   
• "Believers, Here We Gather (a hymn)." By Thomas J. Ritter.
   
• "Can My son be Gay and Catholic? Reconciling Teachings with Experience." By Casey Lopata.
   
• "Can You Be Gay and Republican?" By Rich Tafel
   
• "Discerning the Nearness of God: Lectio DivinaÊand AIDS." By Patricia Hoffman.
   
• "Ecumenical Politeness Reconsidered: Transcending Denominational Divisions to Address Concerns of Justice." By Mary E. Hunt.
   
• "From JeffreyÊto Angels: Education for Gay/Lesbian Advocacy in a Theological Seminary."
   
• "Homosexuality, European Churches, the Ecumenical Movement, and the WCC Meeting in Harare." By Robert C. Lodwick.
   
• "One Loaf, One Cup, One Body — While a Church Divided." By Agnes Norfleet.
   
• "Purchasing Power of the Press — An Example." By Eugene TeSelle.
   
• "Thought on the L/G/B/T Religious Movement." By Mark Bowman.
   
• "Walking in the Moonlight." By Rita Nakashima-Brock.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 14, No. 3.

• "'Lord, I Want to Be in That Number, When the Saints Go Marching In..." By Beth Bentley.
   
• "A Gift for the Altar (a hymn)." By Amanda Udis-Kessler.
   
• "Coming Out Christian: A Student's View." By Heather Moyer.
   
• "Coming Out Christian: The Campus Minister's View." By Jan Griesinger.
   
• "Fear of Church Association with Homosexuality in John Wesley's Era." By Alice G. Knotts.
   
• "Love in the Open: Strengthening Families By Our Welcome." By Sara Moores Campbell.
   
• "On Harassment and Invisibility: One Student's Story." By Anonymous.
   
• "Reconciling." By Les Norman.
   
• "Something There Is...: After Robert Frost's 'The Mending Wall'." By Miriam C. Tirabassi.
   
• "Specific in Rejection — Why Not in Welcome?" By April Herron-Sweet.
   
• "The Body of Christ Stretches to Be Inclusive." By Craig A. Buxton.
   
• "Tolerance Is Not Enough: Inclusion and the Problem of 'Elmwood'." By Craig Washington.
   
• "Why Be Specific in Our Welcome?: The President's Church Affirms Unity With Gays and Lesbians." By Ralph Williams.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 14, No. 4.

• "'For the Least of These': The Current Class Divide and the Obligations of Christian L/G/B/Ts." By Amanda Udis-Kessler.
   
• "Christian Haikus." By Philip W. Gilman.
   
• "Colonialism's Anti-Gay Legacy. A Case in Point: Singapore." By You-Leng L. Lim.
   
• "Coming Out as a Sacrament in Argentina." By Ariel Barrios Medina.
   
• "Daring to Fly With Wings Like Eagles: The Uniting Church in Australia and Homosexuality."
   
• "Individual Integrity vs. Institutional Injunction: Two Responses to a Ban on Same-Gender Blessings." By Leslie Penrose and Greg Dell. Ê
   
• "Jesus Somehow Became Chinese." By Hong Tan.
   
• "Mexico City's Missionaries of the Realm of God." Marilœ Gonz‡lez et al.
   
• "No Longer an Alien in the Household of God: Growing Up as a Gay Christian in South Africa." By Douglass John Torr.
   
• "PFALyG — Padres, Familiares y Amigos de Lesbianas y Gays." By Irmgard Fischer.
   
• "Saint Francis in Singapore." By Tuck-Leong Andrew Lee.
   
• "The United Reformed Church's Debate on Ordination in the UK." By Keith Riglin.
   
• "What Will John Calvin Think? Gay and Lesbian Christians in Geneva." By Alfred A. Manuel.
   
• "Women Loving Women in Fiji." By Melinda Madew.
   

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Open Hands, Vol. 15, No. 1.

• "A Litany for Worship." By Ron Coughlin.
   
• "Chaos, Uncertainty, Relativism: How Do They Speak to People of Faith?" By D.S. Carlstone.
   
• "Creative Chaos: How God Did it and Does it." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "Disorderly Conduct: Doing A New Thing: Reflections on Ordination." By Lisa Ann Pierce.
   
• "God is Up to Something, Even in Congregational Conflict." By Pat Taylor Ellison. Ê
   
• "Gracious Chaos in the Early Church: God's Radical Grace." By Judith Hoch Wray.
   
• "Hanna's ÔDisorder': Her Faithful Response to Chaos." By Allen Harris.
   
• "Homoerotic Mysticism: Finding God in Unexpected Places." By Michael Pozar.
   
• "How Can We Reach More Parents?" By Paul Beeman. Ê
   
• "Profound Holiness at the Heart of Gay Love: Meeting AIDS Honestly and Lovingly." By Daniel A. Helminiak.
   
• "Troubling the Waters of Gender Expectations: Religious and Queer Vocations." By Ludger H. Viefhues, SJ.
   
• "Turning the Church Rightside Up to Bless Same-Gender Love." By Alice G. Knotts and Joanne Carlson Brown.
   
• "Turning the World Upside Down: A Gay Jewish Perspective." By Jeff Moses.
   
• "When Love Stirs the Swamp of Our Psyches: Restructuring Spiritual Understandings." By Daniel A. Helminiak. Ê
   

Open Hands, Vol. 15, No. 2.

• "'That They May Be One'" Rejecting Binary Categories to be Whole and Holy." By Rachel Metheny.
   
• "Be Whole as Your God in Heaven is Whole." By Eric H. F. Law.
   
• "Consider An Interfaith Resource Fair." By Jeffrey A. Matthews.
   
• "Finding Home: Toward an Erotic Ecotheology." By J. Michael Clark.
   
• "Henri Nouwen's Hidden Legacy." By Mike Ford.
   
• "International Gay Group Addresses Religion." By Tom Hanks.
   
• "My Song Of Love is Unknown." By Anonymous.
   
• "My Soulforce Journey to Lynchburg." By Dotti Berry.
   
• "Our 'Evil Twins': The Pitfall of Defining Ourselves over Against Others." By Ron Coughlin.
   
• "Remembering Rita Hester: The 'T' in LGBT." By Irene Monroe.
   
• "Walking for Love and Justice: Farmworkers and Lavender People. By DeEtte Wald Behgtol.
   
• "When We All Get Together: Aftermath of a Firebombed Synagogue." By Alan N. Canton.
   
• "Whispers and Stares: Being Black and Lesbian at Church." By Tolonda Henderson.
   
• "Wholly Himself, Holy His Calling: An Interview with Bayard Rustin." By Mark Bowman.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 15, No. 3.

• "Beyond the Human Point of View." By Peter J. Gomes.
   
• "Breaking Open Tradition." By Ann M. Amideo.
   
• "Maturity and the Church of the Holy Spirit." By John McNeill.
   
• "Outing the Bible: A Queer Biblical Agenda." By Nancy Wilson.
   
• "Question (Biblical) Authority!: Free in the Spirit, Not Shackled by a Text." By T. Lynn Stott.
   
• "Scripture, Homosexuality, and the Nature of Christianity." By Daniel A. Helminiak.
   
• "Take Back the Bible." By Irene Monroe.
   
• "The Bible and Love Between Women." By Bernadette J. Brooten.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 15, No. 4.

• "A Ministry and Movement of Reconciliation: Reconciling Congregation Program." No Author.
   
• "Baptized Into One Family: Welcoming and Affirming Baptists." No Author.
   
• "Being Inclusive as God Is: INCLUSIVE Congregations." No Author.
   
• "Dancing At the Walls of Injustice: Supportive Congregations Network." No Author.
   
• "GLAD to Go Into God's House: Open and Affirming Ministries." No Author.
   
• "In the Beginning, Sodom: More Light Presbyterians." No Author.
   
• "Reconciling Congregations — Another View." By John Ballew.
   
• "Revisiting Sodom: Reconciling in Christ Program." Ê No Author.
   
• "Salvation is Salvation: Affirming Congregation Programme." No Author.
   
• "Saved By Grace." By Jacki Belile.
   
• "Shining Like the Sun — A Sanctoral Cycle for ALL the Saints." By David Kerr Park.
   
• "Turning the Tables: Open and Affirming Program." No Author.
   

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Open Hands, Vol. 16, No. 1.

• "A Letter from Jimmy Creech." By Jimmy Creech.
   
• "Becoming Joseph." By Thomas Kelson Lewis.
   
• "Conflict Resolution." By DeEtte Beghtol.
   
• "Diversity (a hymn)." By Marsha Stevens.
   
• "I Speak Today As One Black Gay Man." By Keith Boykin.
   
• "Lament of Matthew Shepard." By Elaine Blanchard.
   
• "Law vs. Truth." By David Cooper.
   
• "Let Us Be Impatient With Prejudice." By William Sloane Coffin.
   
• "No Excuse for Abuse." By Michael Kinnamon.
   
• "Pacific School of Religion Opens Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies." By Jane Austin.
   
• "Reflections on the Second Jimmy Creech Trial." By Marilyn Alexander.
   
• "The Biblical Word on Violence — Oppression vs. Liberating Justice."
   
• "The Biblical Word on Violence — Oppression vs. Liberating Justice." By Tom Hanks.
   
• "The God of Violence." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "The Sacrifice — A Short Story." By D.S. Carlstone.
   
• "They Know Not What They Do." By Martha Juillerat.
   
• "Toward a Nonviolent Understanding of Atonement." By Carter Heyward.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 16, No. 2.

• "1000 at WOW 2000: The Very Much Later Acts of the Apostles." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "A Long Journey Into Welcome." By Rachel C. Wilson.
   
• "Do You Want to be Healed? Not Getting Stuck in Our Woundedness." By Irene Monroe.
   
• "Healing Communities of Faith." By Joretta L. Marshall.
   
• "Healing from the Heart." By Kathlyn James.
   
• "Keeping the Church Together in a Pluralistic World." By Douglas John Hall.
   
• "Lachrymanl of Healing." By Susan Quinn Bryan.
   
• "Not 'Privileging' Our Oppression." By Bob Goss.
   
• "Pious Injustice: Reflections on the Presbyterian General Assembly."
   
• "Restless Church." By Ann Freeman Price.
   
• "Suffer the Little Children..." By Donald R. Purkey.
   
• "Teaching Children About Healing." By Allen V. Harris.
   
• "When A Child 'Comes Out.'" by Ron Griesse.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 16, No. 3.

• "'A Bouquet of Birds': Revisioning Family." By Susan Quinn Bryan.
   
• "Bill of Rights for LGBTQ Youth in the Church." By Timothy J. Brown and Leann McCall Tigert.
   
• "Coming Out Young." By Matthew Seeds, et al.
   
• "E-Mails to a Young 'Q': Assurance and Information for a Questioning or Queer Youth." By Chip Aldridge, Jr.
   
• "Learning From Our Daughter." By Patricia A. Groves.
   
• "Prayers for Coming Out and for Affirming Congregations." By Leann McCall Tigert and Timothy J. Brown.
   
• "Tell Us A Story! A Trip to the Children's Library." By Victor L. Schill.
   
• "The Girl Who Wanted Justice." By Lucy Sadtler-Taylor.
   
• "The Pink Cup: Kairos Teaching Moments." By Chip James.
   
• "Welcoming Transgender Children." By Ann Thompson Cook.
   
• "Who's Teaching Who? A Parent and Child Teach Each Other About Homosexuality." By Marcia Bailey and Sarah Bailey.
   
• "Why Talk About This With Kids?" By Ann Thompson Cook.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 16, No. 4.

• "A Rural Indignity." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "A Thanksgiving Conversation." By Gene E. Miller.
   
• "Anonymous Rural Stoles, Anonymous Rural Ministries." By Martha Juillerat.
   
• "Bringing the Conversation Home to Rural America: Welcoming Conference in Montana." By Jean Larson-Hurd.
   
• "Down on the Farm." By Jan Griesinger.
   
• "Gay Godparents — 'What's the Big Deal?'" By Jan, Anne, and Rebecca Thomas.
   
• "God's Apology: A Short Story set in the South Dakota Badlands." By Paul McComas.
   
• "More Light in Timber Country." By Ben Dake.
   
• "On the Farm 'Down Under.'" by Vera Bourse.
   
• "Taking A Chance on God for Us." By John McNeill.
   
• "Urban Legends: Deconstructing Urbocentrism." By Brian Watson.
   
• "We're Family." By Harold Brockus.
   
• "Welcoming Conversations: Suggestions for Small Town and Rural Congregations." By Stanely N. Olson.
   
• "What Is It Like Being Gay at Calvin College"? By Benjamin P. McCloskey.
   

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Open Hands, Vol. 17, No. 1.

• "'I Have Called You By Name.'" by Joanne Carlson Brown.
   
• "A Call to the Church: Open the Door!" By Harry Knox.
   
• "A Welcoming Strategy for Your Denomination." By Bob Gibeling.
   
• "All Kinds of Families." By Liz Alexander.
   
• "Belief and Belovedness." By Robert Showalter Kreider.
   
• "Coming Home to Myself: My Not So Private Jubilee." By Nancy L. Wilson.
   
• "Escape for Your Life." By Craig Washington.
   
• "Fear Is Such A Hassle." By Mary Hunt.
   
• "God Says, 'I Love You.'" by Bob Johnson.
   
• "Jesus Found Me." By Ann Amideo.
   
• "Love Made Personal." By Sandra Bochonok.
   
• "My Ordination." By Diann Neu.
   
• "Out of Fundamentalism." By Desmond K. Parsons.
   
• "Pride Is Faith in Our Belovedness." By Chris Glaser.
   
• "Saved Twice." By Brian Cave.
   
• "The Denial of Love: A Non-Heterosexual Interpretation of Peter's Denial." By ÒGeorgia Powers."
   
• "The Power of Grace." By Bob Lodwick.
   
• "When Our Son Came Out of the Closet, We Went In." By Dale Merkle.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 17, No. 2.

• "'Fumorist' Kate Clinton."
   
• "A Prayer in Honor of Those Whom Jesus Loved." By Joan Chittister.
   
• "AIDS Quilt as Folk Art (a photo essay)."
   
• "Columcille" A Sacred Space and Place."
   
• "God's Glorious Gadfly." By Howard Warren.
   
• "Gospel Songs in a Gay Bar." By Cliff Bostock.
   
• "I'm Still Dancing: A one-may play about AIDS." By Peter Massey.
   
• "If these Churches are Silent, Gay Choruses Themselves Will Sing Out." By Michael Purintun.
   
• "Meeting A Buddhist Monk on the Way Home From Work." By Charles Hill.
   
• "Puzzle," by Malcolm Boyd.
   
• "Queer Quest for the Broken Grail." By Joe Cobb.
   
• "Re-Creating Religion." By Toby Johnson.
   
• "Revisiting Psalms 8, 25, 17." By Madeleine Manning.
   
• "Shadow Workers and Soul Guides." By Mark Thompson.
   
• "So Great A Cloud of Witnesses: The Shower of Stoles (a photo essay)." By Martha Juillerat.
   
• "World Towers & Church Towers." By Chris Glaser.
   

Open Hands, Vol. 17, No. 3.

• "A Prayer for Gay People in the Church." By Malcolm Boyd.
   
• "Welcoming God's Call: Ecclesiastical Disobedience." By Anita Hill.
   
• "Welcoming God's Church: A Critical Mass." By Victoria Rue.
   
• "Welcoming God's Love: Traditional Marriages." By Rick Mawson and Warren Kreml.
   

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