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4 Nov 00
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Chi Rho Press eNewsletter
Volume 27 (11/04/00)
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Contents:
1. Featured Books Called OUT! The Voices and Gifts and LGBT
Presbyterians
2. Media Booksigning and Discussion, Nov. 5
3. Our Sponsors
4. Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse in Spanish
5. Support our Library Project
6. Don't Forget to Vote!
7. Printer for sale!
8. Adam's Last Word
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1.
Featured Books:
"Called
OUT! The Voices and Gifts and LGBT Presbyterians" Now
more than ever, it is important to hear the voices of LGBT people of faith.
Our first anthology, "Called OUT! The Voices and Gifts and LGBT Presbyterians"
is a good place to start. Edited by lesbian evangelist the Rev. Jane Adams
Spahr, Kathryn Poethig, Selisse Berry, and Melinda McLain, "Called
OUT" is in its second printing with Chi Rho Press.
Though "Called
OUT" contains the faith stories of 40 gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgendered Presbyterians, it is not just a book for Presbyterians,
but it is a book for all people of faith who are in the LGBT community,
who are
non-gay friends and allies, or who are struggling with the issue of
homosexuality in the church. Read this book and get to know the real face
of LGBT spirituality.
You may order "Called
OUT" on our web page at www.ChiRhoPress.com
using our
handy shopping cart and your credit card. "Called OUT" sells
for $17.95,
six or more copies are $15.25 each.
The holidays are coming and "Called OUT" will make a wonderful gift!
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2. Media Booksigning and Discussion, Nov. 5
Roberta Showalter
Kreider will be speaking at Imago Dei MCC in Media, PA, on
Sunday, Nov. 5, at 1 pm. Roberta is the editor of the anthology "From
Wounded Hearts: Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered
People and Those Who Love Them".
Roberta's husband,
Rev. Harold Kreider, a retired Mennonite minister, will
be sharing his story as well. Kevin and Adam will be going up to Media
to
assist Roberta and other authors of "From Wounded Hearts" in
signing copies of this wonderful anthology.
The book signing
and discussion will be held at the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Delaware County, 145 West Rose Tree Road, Media, PA. For more
information or directions, contact Imago Dei MCC at 610/724-2146, or visit
their web site at www.ImagoDeiMCC.org.
If you are in the
Philadelphia/Delaware County area, please join us for this
event!
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Here's a new feature!
A list of sponsors of Chi Rho Press. These are folks
who provide an important service to the LGBT faith community and who support
Chi Rho Press in various ways. We encourage you to visit their Web sites
and to get to know them.
If you would like
to become a Sponsor of Chi Rho Press, contact
Kevin@ChiRhoPress.com for more
information.
-Ron DeVrou is a
therapist and personal life coach in the Washington DC area.
His coaching practice is also done on line! Visit him at www.GayCoach.com.
-We think Dr. Mel
White is one of the most important figures in the LGBT
community today. Visit Soulforce at www.Soulforce.org
and try to join us in
Washington DC at the Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference in November.
-Read one of the
finest one-line magazines around at www.whosoever.org.
Editor Candace Chellew does a wonderful job of providing news, insights,
and great articles for the LGBT spiritual community!
-Dr. Sandy Bochonok
has a wonderful on-line ministry at Soulfood. Join them
at http://www.soulfoodministry.org.
-Stained glass by
our director, Adam DeBaugh no web page just devoted to
Adam's stained glass work, but write him at Adam@ChiRhoPress.com
for more
information.
-Reiki Practitioner
Kevin Stone Fries (aka the Press' Editor/Office Manager)
is available for reiki sessions in the DC area. Write him at
Kevin@ChiRhoPress.com for more
information.
Write for information about how you can become a Sponsor of Chi Rho Press!
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4. "Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse" in Spanish?
Please don't forget
the fund to translate and publish "Steps
to Recovery
from Bible Abuse" in Spanish. If you would like to be part of
this initiative,
please send your checks or money order, made out to Chi Rho Press, to
us at
P.O. Box 7864, Gaithersburg, MD 20898. Note that it is for "Steps
in
Spanish" in the memo line of your check.
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5 Support our Library Project!
A new friend and
supporter of Chi Rho Press, Ed Harris, is in charge of the
Jim Ricketson Memorial Library, in Roanoke, Virginia.
This new library
is a resource for the LGBT community in Roanoke, the city
recently rocked by the homophobic hate crime that left one person dead
and
six others wounded in an attack on a gay bar. Adam went to Roanoke for
the
vigil in honor of the Roanoke 7.
The library will
provide important resources for research and reading in the
western part of the state of Virginia (Roanoke Valley.) They currently
have
over 700 titles, are located in the lower level of The Lifestream Center,
in
the Grandin Court area of Roanoke, and will open December 6th on a limited
schedule as a library for our GLBT communities.
Financial and book
donations can be sent to Ed Harris, Director; 1713 Ellis
Court, Salem, Virginia 24153. Or you may e-mail Ed for additional
information at edbharrisj@juno.com.
Checks may be made out to Ed Harris, and noted for The Jim Ricketson Memorial
Library.
The Library has the
enthusiastic support of the Rev. Catherine Houchins,
pastor of MCC of the Blue Ridge, Roanoke, Virginia.
Chi Rho Press is
pleased to be a sponsor of the Jim Ricketson Memorial
Library in Roanoke. As part of our support, we are offering anyone a 25%
discount on any Chi Rho Press books to donate to the library, in honor
of the Roanoke 7. If you would like to make a donation of a Chi Rho Press
book, just e-mail Adam at Adam@ChiRhoPress.com
for details, or send your check or money order for the titles you wish
to donate (along with the names of the books) to Chi Rho Press Library
Project, P.O. Box 7864, Gaithersburg, MD 20898. We will send the books
along to Ed Harris in Roanoke.
I regret we can't
offer our shopping cart on the web page for this special
opportunity. Just figure 25% off the list price of the books you would
like to donate and send your check or money order to us at the Press.
Thanks for
your support!
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This year, perhaps
more than ever for those of us in the United States, it
is imperative for LGBT people and our families and supporters vote in
the
national, state and local elections.
We have found a wonderful
new web site that is dedicated to getting out the
LGBT vote on Nov. 7: http://www.OutVote2000.org.
Please Don't Forget to Vote on Nov. 7!
And if you have any
doubts about whether or not you should vote next
Tuesday, here is a letter to the editor that appeared in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer on Oct. 26. You may have seen this on line already, but it
is worth repeating:
"For those
in need of a reason to vote on November 7, here are two:
"1. Because Matthew Shepard cannot.
2. Because "Dr." Laura can."
Vote on this Tuesday, November 7
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Chi Rho Press has
a printer for sale. It is an Okidata Microline 320 Turbo,
9 Pin printer. It has never been used and was bought a year ago. $200
or
best offer write Adam@ChiRhoPress.com
if you are interested.
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Please visit our
web site at www.ChiRhoPress.com
and see the changes that
are happening there! We are continuing to make improvements and to add
to our
web site. We would love to have you visit!
In 1872, the Ohio
Supreme Court on a case involving compulsory reading of
the Protestant Bible in public schools, reversed a lower court opinion,
holding
that the board had the authority to remove Bible reading from the
curriculum. The court wrote words that serve today:
"When Christianity
asks the aid of government beyond mere impartial
protection, it denies itself. Its laws are divine and not human. Its essential
interests lie beyond the reach and range of human governments. United
with
government, religion never rises above the merest superstition; united
with religion, government never rises above the merest despotism; and
all history shows us that the more widely and completely they are separated,
the better it is for both."
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Americans,
VOTE on Nov. 7! Voting based on your faith journey is where
church and state appropriately intersect and the only place.
Americans,
VOTE on Nov. 7!
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And lastly,
a shameless promotion: Christmas is just 50 days away. And on
the Chi Rho Press web page, every day is a shopping day! "The road
to knowledge
begins with the turn of a page." Books make great gifts! Please do
at
least some of your holiday shopping at http://www.chirhopress.com.
Thank you!
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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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