Welcoming Chrisitianity / Welcoming Chruches

Relationships, not Policies Make Welcoming Churches: A Case Study in the United Church of Christ

October 1, 2004
Della Fahnestock

Relationships, not Policies Make Welcoming Churches [PDF]

Bisexual and Transgender Lives in Christian Institutions, Gay, Holy Ferment: Queer Philosophical Destabiliz

September 1, 2001
Christina K. Hutchins

Holy Ferment: Queer Philosophical Destabilizations and the
Discourse on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives in Christian Institutions [PDF]

All Things To All People 1 (Corinthians 9:16-23)

January 1, 1996
Cornelius Kanhai

A pastor shares his thoughts about inclusivity and arrogance in a sermon to his Reconciling Congregation. Perhaps your welcoming church is struggling with the same issue.—Editor (Open ...

Valuing Differences: A Process of Experience

November 30, 1995
Al Duvall, DeeAnna P. Merz

In the spring of 1994, my husband Tom and I decided to become therapeutic foster care providers. We had just finished graduate school in rehabilitation counseling. One Sunday, skimming the paper for employment opportunities, I saw an ad that read something like this:

Foster parents needed to provide in–home care to a young man with multiple disabilities. This person will be facing a series of surgeries and will need assistance with independent living skills...