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28 July 00
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Chi Rho Press eNewsletter
Volume 21 (7/28/00)
Welcome once again
to the Chi Rho Press eNewsletter. Please pass this eNewsletter on to your
friends and colleagues.
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Contents:
1. A Brief Explanation
2. Truluck Tour
3. New Subscribers
4. Great Changes on the Web Page!
5. Called OUT!
6. Adam's Last Word
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1. A Brief Explanation
This will be a relatively
short edition of the Chi Rho Press eNewsletter. We
wanted to get something out to highlight the book tour of Dr. Rembert
Truluck,
author of "Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse" that is starting
this weekend.
We also want to invite as many of our readers in the Washington DC/
Maryland/Virginia/Delaware area as possible to join us for one or more
of the
events at which Dr. Truluck is speaking.
We had an early summer
hiatus with a few weeks between the 19th and the 20th
eNews and now we are raring to go! The Truluck book tour is going to be
tiring perhaps but we expect it to be an exciting time of education and
sharing.
Check the tour schedule in the next article and if you are anywhere in
the
vicinity of any of the events, please join us! E-mail or call me for
directions to any of the events!
And there is great news about the new look for our web site see what Dotti Berry and her crew have done with our new shopping cart and ability to accept credit cards!
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Chi Rho Press is
hosting Dr. Rembert S. Truluck to the Washington area for two
weeks beginning July 28 and ending August 14. Here is his schedule so
far:
Friday, July 28, arrival in Washington area.
Sunday, July 30,
preach and answer questions at two services at MCC Rehoboth
Beach, at 521 Holland Glade Road, Rehoboth Beach, DE; 302/226-9026.
3 pm, Book signing
at Lambda Rising, 39 Baltimore Ave., Rehoboth Beach, DE;
302/227-6969.
Wednesday evening,
Aug. 2, 6 pm, workshop at New Light MCC, 40 West Church
St., Hagerstown, MD; 301/797-5698.
Friday evening, Aug.
4, 7 pm, speak at a meeting with Integrity Northern
Virginia, Episcopal Church of St. Clement, 1701 No. Quaker Lane, Alexandria,
VA. For directions to the church, call 703/998-6166.
Sunday, Aug. 6, preach
and lead a workshop at MCC Richmond, 2501 Park Ave.,
Richmond, VA; 804/353-9477.
Tuesday, Aug. 8,
7:30 pm, Christian Education class at MCC of Washington DC,
474 Ridge Street, NW, Washington, DC; 202/638-7373.
Thursday, Aug. 10,
7:30 pm, speaking at Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500
16th St., Washington DC.
Saturday, Aug. 12,
11 am, workshop at MCC Baltimore, 1605 St. Paul St.,
Baltimore, MD; 410/234-1676.
Sunday, Aug. 13,
11 am, preach and lead a workshop to kick off an on-going
Bible study, using his book, after worship at Holy Redeemer MCC, 4907
Niagara
Rd., College Park, MD; 301/797-5698.
Monday, Aug. 14, home to California.
You may contact me at 301/926-1208 or by e-mail at Adam@ChiRhoPress.com for more information.
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We have been blessed
with a flock of new subscribers to this eNewsletter, for
which we are very grateful. Welcome to the Chi Rho Press community!
Your suggestions and comments are always welcome!
Also, a request we
have joined a number of list-serves and are always looking
for more. Please write and tell me which lists you are a part of and the
address where we can go to join them. We will print a list of all the
list-serves in the next issue of the Chi Rho Press eNewsletter. Thanks
for
your support!
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4. Great Changes on Chi Rho Press' Web Page
We have made it even
easier to order from Chi Rho Press through our web page.
Dotti Berry and her excellent team at of D3 Marketing Innovations in
Lexington, Kentucky, has added a shopping cart to the web page.
Now you can click on "add to cart" at any item in our catalog
and it will be
put in your personal shopping cart, adding up the amounts and shipping
and handling. You can order as many things as you want.
Then you can pay
by major credit card! Yes! We have finally entered the
credit card age! You may pay by credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American
Express, Discover/Novus). We certainly will invoice you as before, if
you
would prefer.
We are very pleased
with the work Dotti and her team has done and hope you
will test out our new shopping cart and credit card availability. That
means
please go to the web site and order something! <G>
As a special bonus
if you are one of the first ten people to order by credit
card with our new shopping cart, I will send you e-mail and offer you
a free
book or product of your choice from our catalog. So order now you might
be
one of the first!
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5. Called OUT! Goes to a Second Printing
"Called OUT!
The Voices and Gifts of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgendered Presbyterians" compiled and edited by the Rev. Jane
Adams Spahr, Kathryn Poethig, Selisse Berry, and Melinda McLain, "Called
OUT" was our first anthology and contains essays by 39 LGBT people
who are members (or former members) of the Presbyterian Church.
The second printing of "Called OUT" retails for $17.95 and can be ordered from Chi Rho Press at Orders@ChiRhoPress.com.
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I had a wonderful note from Mel White in response to my Last Word ("number 8) in the 20th eNewsletter. Mel writes, on Fri, 21 July 2000:
"Oh, dear brother,
Number 8 was great.
I'm going to use your defense as my defense.
I'm really being criticized in all the ways you mentioned, over and over
again. Thanks for even thinking about a defense, let alone writing such
an eloquent and persuasive piece. I am forever grateful.
Mel"
I am pleased and
honored to be a part of Soulforce and Mel's important
ministry. I truly believe that Soulforce is the most important development
in
the LGBT movement since Stonewall.
I am very excited
about the new look to our web site with the shopping cart
and credit card acceptance. Many thanks to Dotti Berry and her team for
their
hard work! Please do check it out and let me know what you think!
As I gear up for
Dr. Truluck's visit I am trying to take some time here and
there to work on my special hobby stained glass. I am making four
window-sized panels for my home congregation, Holy Redeemer MCC in College
Park, Maryland. If you come to the service at which Dr. Truluck is preaching
on Aug. 13 you can see the first of the finished panels the Holy Spirit
Window.
I also make small
stained glass crosses, gay flags, and AIDS ribbons, which
Chi Rho Press sells through its on line catalog
and some times at conferences.
But for me the stained glass is a labor of love a gift and skill God has
given me,
which I thoroughly enjoy and which I am fortunate enough to be able to
use to
bring pleasure to others.
I hope you each have
a hobby something different from your work, something
creative perhaps, which gives you joy, and which provides a time of closeness
to God and refreshment and relaxation. Too many LGBT leaders and activists
concentrate too much on their work and ministries and don't take time
for
themselves. I urge you to take time to refresh, re-energize, and restore
your
spirits in whatever way that works for you. You are too precious a
resource to waste through burnout!
That's it for this
edition of the Chi Rho Press eNewsletter. It is perhaps a
little longer than I expected! We are very excited about Dr. Truluck's
tour
and will tell you more about how it all went in our next issue of the
eNews.
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We are glad you are partners with us here at Chi Rho Press. We are eager for your comments, your suggestions, your assistance with selling our books, and your own purchases! And of course, we covet your prayers for this ministry.
Grace and peace,
Adam DeBaugh, Director
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