Other Sheep - Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities

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AIDS

AIDS
Robert L Arpin., Wonderfully, fearfully made : letters on living with hope, teaching understanding,
and ministering with love, from a gay Catholic priest with AIDS, HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
Arpin, a priest who lived with AIDS, narrates his struggles and ministry.

AIDS Ministry Program of the Catholic Archdiocese St. Paul, For Those We Love: A Spiritual
Perspective on AIDS, Cleveland, Pilgrim Press, 1995.
Good source book for an HIV caregiver. It nurtures the caregiver with meditations and faith.

William Amos, When AIDS Comes to the Church, Louisville, Westminster/ John Knox Press, 1988.
Describes how a pastor and his congregation responded to AIDS in its midst.

Robert Warren Cromey, In God's Image: Christian Witness to the Need for Gay/Lesbian Equality in
the Eyes of the Church, San Francisco, Alamo Square Press, 1991.
An Episcopal rector find Christ's presence in the love, caring and forgiveness, and joy of
lesbian/gays afflicted with HIV.

John Fortunato, AIDS: The Spiritual Dliemma, San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1987.
Fortunato stresses the need for a spiritual response to AIDS and and society's victimization of HIV
people. He envisions HIV individuals embarking upon a spiritual journey to transcend the crisis.

Richard Hardy, "To Break the Silence: Persons Living with AIDS--Elements of a Christian
Spirituality,' in AIDS and Faith, Ottawa, Novalis, 1993, pp. 91-121.
Excellent article on AIDS and spirituality from a Catholic perspective.

Richard Hardy, "Spirituality and Gay Male Couples Living in the Context of HIV/AIDS," in Our
Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship, ed. by Robert E. Goss & Amy Adams Squires
Strongheart, New York, Haworth Press, 1997.
Hardy draws on first hand experiences of gay couples living with HIV and describes their spirituality.

Daniel A. Helminiak, "Non-Religious Lesbians and Gays Facing AIDS: A Fully Psychological
Approach to Spirituality," Pastoral Psychology, vol. 43, # 5, 1995, pp. 301-318.
Helminiak discerns a a spiritual core to gay/lesbian experience and maps out psychological/spiritual
response to non-religious gays/lesbians with HIV.

Patricia L. Hoffman, AIDS and the Sleeping Church, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans, 1996.
Hoffman's powerful account of the church's failure to respond compassionately to HIV.

Louis Kavar, Pastoral Ministry in the AIDS Era, Woodland Press, 1988.
Kavar writes from his experience as Projector Coordinator for Lazarus Ministries, a work of Universal
Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Churches, which provided residential programs for people
living with HI and congregational based training programs.

Louis Kavar, Families Re-Membered: Pastoral Support for Friends and Families Living with HIV, Chi
Rho Press, 1993.
Families are often restructured, enlarged, or altered as HIV impacts the family system. Pastoral
responsibility requires clergy to include family members of choice.

Mark Kowalewski, "The AIDS Crisis: Legitimation of Homophobia or Catalyst for Change," in
Homophobia and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, ed. by Michael L. Stemmeler & J. Michael Clark,
Dallas, Monument Press, 1990, pp. 147-163.
Kowalewski envisions that change will take place only when the church gives voice to those
oppressed by its teaching.

Mark Kowalewski, All Things to All People: The Catholic Church Confronts the AIDS Crisis, Albany,
SUNY, 1994.
Kowalewski examines how the Roman Catholic Church in the US responds to the AIDS crisis. He
describes how pastoral care at the local level have the effect of legitimizing the hierarchical power
structures.

William D. Lindsey, "The AIDS Crisis and the Church: A Time to Heal," in Christian Perspectives on
Sexuality and Gender, ed. by Adrian Thatcher & Elizabeth Stuart, Grand Rapids, Wm. B Eerdmans
Publishing Co, 1996, pp. 347-366.

Ronald E. Long & J. Michael Clark, AIDS, God, and faith : Continuing the Dialogue on Constructing
Gay Theology, Las Colinas, Monument Press, 1992.
Essays by Long and Clark are quite good.

Bruce L. Mills, "Fear & Passion: A Psychological Reflection on the Construction of Homophobia in
the Context of AIDS, " in Homophobia and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, ed. by Michael L.
Stemmeler & J. Michael Clark, Dallas, Monument Press, 1990, pp. 165-187.
Good essay that details the relationship of AIDSphobia and homophobia.

Kenneth Overberg (ed) AIDS, Ethics & Religion: Embracing a World of Suffering, Maryknoll, Orbis
Press, 1994.
Anthology states the global challenges presented by AIDS. The moral impoverishment of most
churches over gays becomes apparent from some doctrinaire and insensitive essays.

Gillian Paterson, Women in the Time of AIDS, Maryknoll, Orbis Books, 1996.
Paterson brings home the many faces of women infected with HIV.

Eric Rofes, Reviving Our Tribe, Haworth Press, 1996.
Rofes addresses the post-traumatic syndrome experienced by the gay male community over the
losses through HIV and a map for reviving it. A very important work.

Letty M. Russell, (ed), The Church with AIDS: Renewal in the Midst of Crisis, Pilgrim Press, 1991.
Russel's anthology is one of the better ones on the churrch and AIDS.

Richard L. Smith, AIDS, Gays, and the American Catholic Church, Cleveland, Pilgrim Press, 1994.
Presents a compelling study of the social construction of AIDS, the conflict between gay activists
and the Catholic hierarchy. Smith looks, perhaps to optimstically, to the pastoral response of
religious, clergy, and laity as organic bridges between the Catholic hierarchy and the gay community.

John Snow, Mortal Fear: Meditations on Death and AIDS, Cowley Publications, 1987.
Snow addresses at pastors, counselors, and care-givers who are involved with the needs of HIV and
other terminally ill people.

Christopher Spence, On Watch: Views from the Lighthouse, New York, Cassell, 1996.
The founder of the London Lighthouse describes the need for safe space for people facing
HIV/AIDS and the personal, political. and spiritual dimensions of their experience.

Ronald Sunderland & Earl E. Shelp, AIDS and the Church, Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1987.
Good book, pastorally sensitive and powerful indictment of the insensitivity of churches to HIV.
Somewhat dated in HIV information.