On the sub-committee
I was there in 1988 and I remember that there were only three of us on the sub-committee of the Church Board who studied the issue to...
I am still here. I am still faithful.
I remember... Theological school... ...the last semester and reading/hearing about the movements against the church if it accepted...
I wish there had been training sessions
I wish there had been, or rather that the General Counsel had included, training sessions on how to handle “the Issue”… or how to deal...
Call to put words into action
Dear United Church, I will accept your apology if you put your words into action by no longer allowing churches a choice of performing...
My year of pain
Sixteen years after 1988, in 2004, I was two years into my first pastoral charge — settled there by Transfer & Settlement Committee of...
I am a queer womxn who loves a trans non-binary person
I am a queer womxn who loves a trans non-binary person. My faith has been both strengthened and challenged by the United Church. While I...
Rev. Richard DeLorme's Story
I went back into the ministry in 1982 and was in Aylmer, Quebec. I was also president of Conference, and I went to the 1988 vote at...
The importance of listening, acknowledging hurt and reconciling, by Carolyn
It is a source of great disappointment to me that the United Church has not managed to universally put into concrete action the often...
A message from Noreen Ueberer
Dear United Church, The things I want you to apologize for are not having insightful conversations with 1) the people who fill the...
Diane's Story about 1988
I was there in 1988 and I remember the intensity of how people in the pastoral charge I served grappled with this issue and the General...
