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Winter 2006
Volume 6, Number 1

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Winter 2006, Vol. 6, No. 1
Special Issue on Homosexuality
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Editorial
TOWARD A GENUINE CONVERSATION ON HOMOSEXUALITY
Michael A. King
"So what better case study. . . than to invite both Weldon and those who had disciplined him into sharing the blood, sweat, and tears of their stands. . . ."

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE: A CASE STUDY IN THE USE OF THE BIBLE FOR ETHICS
Loren L. Johns
"The church has benefited little from the efforts of both extremist conservatives and of extremist liberals. . . ."

CONSENSUS AND CREED
Everett J. Thomas
"There is grace in consensus; there is truth in creed."

TO GUIDE OUR FEET: PASTORAL ACTION IN IMPOSSIBLE TIMES
"I did not choose this pastoral responsibility or its timing. I accept it as a gift and grace from God. How else does faithful dissent and essential change come in the church?"
Weldon D. Nisly

PANDORA'S BOX OR FIBBER MAGEE'S CLOSET?
C. Norman Kraus
"The question is how human sexual relationships, whether homosexual or heterosexual, are transformed in the Christian community."

CHALLENGES OF "CROSSCULTURAL" COMMUNICATION: A RESPONSE TO C. NORMAN KRAUS
John D. Roth
"Our teaching position is clear: Congregations or pastors who choose to take formal, public stances in opposition are, in effect, choosing to disassociate themselves from the understanding of the larger community."

RULES HELP DISCERNMENT
Everett J. Thomas
"For the first time in Mennonite Church USA's young history, a pastor has been disciplined for performing a same-sex wedding. . . . These actions . . . illustrate that our denomination is in a much stronger position than it was in 1999 and 2000 to respond to matters of sexuality and faithfulness."

WE'VE COME THIS FAR BY FAITH
Mary H. Schertz
"I think there is more than one way to read the Bible on this issue with integrity. I think there is more than one way to live a faithful Christian life with respect to this particular aspect of our humanity and our sexuality."

SEEING FROM WHERE I STAND
Ruth S. Weaver
"If I were a lesbian believer . . . I would not have the inner strength to allow my brothers and sisters to know who I really am. . . ."

FOR NEITHER HETEROSEXUALITY NOR HOMOSEXUALITY IS ANYTHING
Paul M. Lederach
"In Christ Jesus neither heterosexuality nor homosexuality counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love. . . ."

HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS REMAIN THE NORM
Marlin Jeschke
"I have never heard a heterosexual person wish to have a gay or lesbian orientation, which again seems to confirm heterosexuality as the underlying sexual norm of the human race."

FOR A SEXUAL DISCERNMENT TO COME
Gerald Biesecker-Mast
"Rules, even when they work, not only produce decency and order but suffering and division."

RESPONSES
Weldon D. Nisly, Ruth S. Weaver, C. Norman Kraus

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