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SAFE RELIGION ADVANCED SESSION: RESOURCE LIST
SOME AFFIRMING MINISTERS AND CHURCHES IN SPRINGFIELD
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Pastor Lipscomb
First Church of the Brethren
pastor@1stcob.net
(217)-523-5212
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Reverend Tony
Heartland MCC
heartlandcommunitymcc@yahoo.com
(217)-726-8411
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Reverend Woulfe
Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Church
minister@aluuc.org
(217)-585-9550
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Reverend Hayes
Lincoln’s Church
chris.wheal@lincolnschurch.org
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Pastor Bill Zanton
Luther Memorial Lutheran Church
(217)-523-7931
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Rev. Mark Gifford
Parkway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
217-787-3445
Have a local place of worship or resource to add to this list? Please let us know.
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LIST OF AFFIRMING RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY RESOURCES
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Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons: www.affirmation.org
Affirmation: United Methodists for LGBT Concerns: www.umaffirm.org
Ai-Faitha (GLBT Muslims): www.ai-faitha.org
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry: www.clgs.org
Christian Lesbians: www.christianlesbians.com
Dignity USA: www.dignityusa.org
Evangelicals Concerned: www.ecwr.org
Friends (Quakers) for LGBT Concerns: www.quaker.org/fglbtqc/index.html
GLBT Pagan Sites: www.witchvox.net/links/net_gay.html
Integrity (LGBT Episcopalians): www.integrityusa.org
Interweave (Unitarian Universalists for LGBT Concerns):
www.interweavecontinental.org
JQ Youth (Jewish LGBT Youth): www.jqyouth.org
LGBT Religious Archives Network: www.lgbtran.org
More Light Presbyterians: www.mlp.org
Muslims for Progressive Values: http://www.mpvusa.org/index.html
Orthodox Jewish Gays: www.orthogays.com
Rainbow Baptists: www.rainbowbaptists.org
Safra Project (LBT Muslim Women): www.safraproject.com
United Church of Christ Coalition for LGBT Concerns: www.uccoalition.org
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches: http://mcchurch.org
Whosoever: An Online Magazine for LGBT Christians: www.whosoever.org
World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations: http://glbtjews.org
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A Jihad for Love (2007) - A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims
across the Muslim and Western worlds. (Available in Brookens Library)
Fish Can’t Fly (2005) - Explores the lives of Gay men and women of faith as they
recall their journeys to put their sexuality and spirituality in harmony. While the
whole concept of changing ones’ sexual orientation may be viewed with a high level
of skepticism, ridicule and even humor by the larger GLBT community, these are the
stories of those who have tried.
For The Bible Tells Me So (2007) - An exploration of the intersection between
religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religious right has used its
interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community. (Available in Brookens
Library and the LGBTQA Resource Office).
Trembling Before God (2001) - A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews
who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation. (Available in
Brookens Library)