A May 28, 2008, commentary by the Rev. Walter B. Fenton posted by the United Methodist Reporter. Fenton maintains that gay-rights advocates’ continuing call for more dialogue about ordination and related topics amounts to their saying “Let’s keep talking until we have convinced you that you are wrong,” and he says rank-and-file Methodists are satisfied with the […]

A May 9, 2008, United Methodist Reporter story about the demonstration that followed the General Conference’s decision to uphold the position that homosexual activity and Christian teaching are incompatible.

Hadar Harris is executive director of the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is an international human rights attorney and has specialized in issues of civil and political rights, gender equality and fighting impunity for torturers.

Susan Niditch is professor of religion at Amherst College in Massachusetts and has expertise in Hebrew Bible, war and women.

The RCA’s updated study guide on homosexuality, first issued in 1998.

The RCA website has a backgrounder on the denomination’s history regarding homosexual issues and its current stands.

A July 12, 2005, article in Christian Century posted at FindArticles.com.

It seems religion writers deal more in theory than fact. How does a good reporter write an accurate story when people’s understanding of truth differs? By Susan Hogan/Albach The Dallas Morning News* Never take at face value that anyone has the truth about Scripture. Most religious traditions disagree over how to interpret sacred texts. Just […]

Ruth Graham is the third child of Billy and Ruth Graham. Formerly acquisitions editor for HarperCollins/San Francisco and McCracken Press, she has her own speaking ministry and is a writer. She is the author of In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart and co-author of I’m Pregnant … Now What?. She serves on the board of Birthmothers, which assists women […]