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LGBTQIA Resources for Ministry: Articles

Word & World

This quarterly theology journal features articles on theology for Christian ministry. W & W is published by Luther Seminary.

Sex, Intimacy, and Limits
Vol. 10, No 2, Spring, 1990
Publication Date:4/1/1990

Sexual Orientation
Vol. 14, No 3, Summer, 1994
Publication Date:7/1/1994

Defining Marriage
Vol. 23, No 1, Winter, 2003
Publication Date:1/1/2003

Fretheim, Terence E. “The Authority of the Bible and Churchly Debates Regarding Sexuality.” Word & World 26, no. 4 (Aug 2006): 365-374.



 

ELCA Documents

ELCA Statements on Human Sexuality

Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust
This social teaching statement was amended and adopted by a two-thirds vote (676-338) of the eleventh biennial Churchwide Assembly on August 19, 2009, at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A Message on...Sexuality: Some Common Convictions
as adopted by the Church Council of the ELCA on November 9, 1996

Lutheran World Federation

LWF Task Force on Family, Marriage and Sexuality
Lutheran World Federation, March 2007
Proposed Guidelines and Processes for Respectful Dialogue on Marriage, Family and Human Sexuality

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ATLA Religion Database

ATLA

This database indexes articles, essays in books and reviews. Contains many full-text PDFs.

  • Body, Human--Religious aspects--Christianity
  • Church work with gays
  • Gay clergy
  • Gender identity
  • Homosexuality
  • Lesbianism
  • Lesbians--religious life
  • Ordination of homosexuals
  • Queer Theology
  • Queer Theory
  • Same-sex marriage
  • Sexual orientation
  • Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity
  • Transsexualism--religious aspects