Trial Resources

Media Reporting Resources

Trial Related Material

Bulletin Insert – June 2011 [PDF]

*United Methodist Church: Vision vs. Reality (PDF)

Worship Liturgies

The Stones Will Cry Out (article about Rev. Amy and potential trial)

A Time to Advance or Retreat (article – history and present choices)

The Last United Methodist Church Trial (article)

Being on a Church Trial Jury (1 page review)

On Thundering Wings: Homosexuality, Love and the Church on Trial (book about Greg Dell Trial)
Help get this book to the 2012 General Conference Delegates. Support the Book Fund.

Adam’s Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays(book by Jimmy Creech)

Previous Trial Reports from ReligiousTolerance.org
     Rose Mary Denman and Jimmy Creech
          Jimmy Creech response to the Judicial Charge
Greg Dell, Mark Williams, and Karen Dammann
     Beth Stroud

Trial in South Africa

Our Nation of Weeping Executioners

Change the Discipline Resources

Living the Question About Same-Gender Relationships – Gil Caldwell
Bishops Counsel Church to remove “incompatible” language from Discipline
African American Scholars and Clergy of The United Methodist Church
2011 Annual Conference Actions
Reconciling Ministries Network
Methodists In New Directions (MIND)
African Activist

Heterosexism/Homophobia Material

Heterosexism/Homophobia Brochure (PDF)
United Nations Resolution
Kenya’s Chief Justice: “Gay Rights Are Human Rights”

Words of Support

Pre-trial Words and Song of Support from Many

Videos of Support

Watch Videos of Support from a Vigil before the Committee on Investigation, Rev. Dr. Joretta Marshall, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Rev. Dr. Dwight Vogel, Rev. Dr. Tex Sample, Jimmy Creech, Rev. Dr. Melanie S. Morrison, Rev. Troy Plummer, and Deaconess Rachel Harvey.