This page is intended to be a resource for our congregation on current topics and issues, a resource for visitors who would like to know more about ONA, and a resource for others to find links and information. We hope you find it useful.
This video describes the UCC Coalation for LGBT Concerns, detailing much of the history of ONA in the United Church of Christ. It's a good place to begin learning about ONA and the United Church of Christ. For additional information visit the Coalition's own website.
Other websites of interest:
Institute for Welcoming Resources
National Center for Transgender Equality
Service Members Legal Defense Network
Trans Youth Family Allies, sponsor of the Ian Benson Project
Books in our Bethel Library:
Clapp, Steve; Kristen Leverton Helbert, and Angela Zizak. Faith Matters: Teenagers, Religion and Sexuality.
Comstock, Gary David. Gay Theology Without Apology.
Countryman, L. William and M. R. Ritley. Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex.
Goss, Robert and Mona West, editors. Take Back the Word.
Henrikson, Marcy Clements. Our Daughter Martha. (2 copies)
Helminiak, Daniel. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality.
McNeill, John J. The Church and the Homosexual.
Myers, David G. and Letha Dawson Scanzoni. What God Has Joined Together: A Christian Case for Gay Marriage. (2 copies)
Videos/Films:
Call Me Malcom - The journey of a transgendered seminarian and his interviews with other transgendered individuals
For the Bible Tells Me So - The story of four families and their journey toward understanding of a gay or lesbian family member and how that relates to matters of faith
Normal - a TV movie about a middle aged man who transitions to a woman and what he and his wife go through. It stars Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Lange
A Prayer for Bobby
Switched - A Community in Transition
Through My Eyes
Other Resources:
Lexicon of Transgender Terminology
More books, beyond those in the Bethel Library