Contents
STUMBLING TOWARD A GENUINE
CONVERSATION ON HOMOSEXUALITY

Foreword by Carolyn Schrock-Shenk 13
Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments by Michael A. King 19

PART ONE:
TOWARD A GENUINE CONVERSATION ON HOMOSEXUALITY

Introduction to Part One • 23
Michael A. King

1 Homosexuality and the Bible:
A Case Study in the Use of the Bible for Ethics • 35
Loren L. Johns

2 Consensus and Creed • 39
Everett J. Thomas

3 To Guide Our Feet: Pastoral Action in Impossible Times • 42
Weldon D. Nisly

4 Pandora’s Box or Fibber Magee’s Closet? • 49
C. Norman Kraus

5 Challenges of "Cross-Cultural" Communication:
A Response to C. Norman Kraus • 59
John D. Roth

6 Rules Help Discernment • 64
Everett J. Thomas

7 We’ve Come This Far by Faith • 67
Mary H. Schertz

8 Seeing from Where I Stand • 73
Ruth S. Weaver

9 For Neither Heterosexuality
Nor Homosexuality Is Anything • 77
Paul M. Lederach

10 Heterosexual Relationships Remain the Norm • 82
Marlin Jeschke

11 For a Sexual Discernment to Come • 86
Gerald J. Mast

Responses Published Within DSM Winter 2006 • 96
Weldon D. Nisly, Ruth S. Weaver, C. Norman Kraus

Responses Submitted After
DSM Winter 2006 Was Published • 99
Forrest L. Moyer, Harold N. Miller, David A. Shank

PART TWO: STUMBLING TOWARD THE JAZZ HALL

Introduction to Part Two • 113
Michael A. King

1 I Am a Healed Homosexual • 136
Michael A. Schaadt

2 The Cross and Resurrection: Reflections from
My Experience with Same-Sex Attraction • 144
Forrest L. Moyer

3 A Conservative Who Could Change on Homosexuality—
But So Far Has Not • 149
Harold N. Miller

4 Expectations in Exile • 164
John Linscheid

5 A Gay Mennonite Looks at the Confession of Faith:
How Did 24 Articles Get Reduced to One? • 178
Lin Garber

6 Beginning a Theological Conversation on
Homosexuality: "Teacher, Which Commandment
in the Law Is the Greatest?" • 191
Mark Thiessen Nation

7 At the Intersection of Faith, Love, and Hope • 204
Bruce Hiebert

8 Can a Gay Child be the Future of the Church? • 210
Alicia Yoder

9 They Love Each Other, and They Are Family • 212
Joyce Lind

10 Ten Thousand, No Less • 218
Luke L Miller

11 Who I Really Am:
Coming Out in the Mennonite Church • 228
Sarah MacDonald

12 Sexual Intimacy Outside of Marriage: What Is and What
Should Be the Mennonite Position in Official Statements
and Actual Practice • 233
Nancy Kerr

13 A Theology of Welcome • 237
Ted Grimsrud

14 Inqueery • 245
Willard M. Swartley

15 Hitching Our Cart to a Horse Gone Lame • 251
Phil Kniss

16 Finding a Love That Orients • 262
Marcia Benner Pusey

17 Differing with a Confession:
Individual and Corporate Conscience • 271
Sheldon Burkhalter

Responses to This Book from Its Authors • 286
John Linscheid, Harold N. Miller, Forrest L. Moyer, Lin Garber, Gerald J. Mast, C. Norman Kraus, Ted Grimsrud, Weldon D. Nisly, Luke L. Miller, Mark Thiessen Nation, Michael A. Schaadt

Afterword by Jeanine Czubaroff 298
Last Word by J. Ron Byler 309