The Rev. Janet Edwards, a Presbyterian minister who underwent a church trial for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women, has a Huffington Post column on the gay ordination policy.

An essay in Christianity Today by S. Donald Fortson III, professor of church history and practical theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, N.C., looking at the long history of this issue in Christianity.

Read the May 11, 2011, Presbyterian News Service story on the vote and its implications.

A story in the July 2011 issue of Christianity Today.

A Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article about Rev. Amy DeLong’s punishment.

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about the verdict in Rev. Amy DeLong’s trial.

Bernard Schlager is executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry, described as “the only Center for LBGTQ issues and religion established by a seminary or school of religion in the world.” Affiliated with the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., it has held conferences for LGBT religious leaders.

Candace Chellew-Hodge leads Jubilee! Circle, a church plant of the United Church of Christ in Columbia, S.C. Chellew-Hodge, a lesbian who writes frequently on gay issues in the churches, founded Whosoever.org, an online magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Christians.

The Rev. Paul Zahl is a former dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, a seminary in Ambridge, Pa. He opposes the ordination of sexually active gay clergy. Contact through Eerdmans Publishing Co.