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Exile or embrace? : congregations discerning their response to gay and lesbian Christians
- Author
- Siler, Mahan.
- Title
- Exile or embrace? : congregations discerning their response to gay and lesbian Christians / Mahan Siler.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, 2005.
- Description
- 192 p. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005022480.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-192). Paperback.
- Contents
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- Section I : The Pullen story : a pastoral journal
- The alarm of AIDS
- The power of story
- Public reactions
- Continuing education
- Pullen going public
- The gathering storm
- Backing into a whirlwind
- The eye of the storm
- The hurricane's backside
- The storm subsiding
- The parting of ways
- Section II : Leading the process
- Readiness
- Anticipating the stages
- Leadership
- Creating a plan
- Implementing the plan
- Section III : Study guide
- Session 1 : gathering and clarifying your purpose
- Session 2 : readiness
- Session 3 : anticipating the stages
- Session 4 : leadership
- Session 5 : creating a plan (part 1)
- Session 6 : creating a plan (part 2)
- Session 7 : implementing the plan
- Session 8 : concluding the study.
- Subject headings
- Pullen Memorial Baptist Church (Raleigh, N.C.)--Case studies.
- Kinsey subjects
- Religious attitudes on homosexuality. Homosexuality. Religion.
- ISBN
- 0829816305 (alk. paper) 9780829816303 (alk. paper)