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The work of a gay college chaplain : becoming ourselves in the company of others /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comstock, Gary David, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harrington Park Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Gay students > Religious life.
College chaplains.
Gays > Religious life.
Gay men > Religious life.
Lesbians > Religious life.
Table of Contents:
  • Beginning
  • Becoming
  • Working
  • Fathering Gay Children
  • A Lack of Resources
  • Inventing and Preventing Trouble
  • Sources of Information for Understanding the Needs of Proto-Gay Kids: Halting Voices
  • Changing Men?
  • Problems with Initiation and Instruction
  • Organizing Meaningful Experience
  • Dialogical Guidance and Initiation
  • Carrying, Ferrying, Sitting, and Talking
  • Learning from and with Children
  • Underlying Religious Principle
  • The Pioneers: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  • The Second Wave: Mid-Twentieth Century
  • Response and Application
  • Examining Preconceptions
  • Teaching Prisoners
  • Connected and Engaged
  • Siddhartha versus Ceremony
  • Surfacing Preconceptions
  • Practicing What I Teach
  • Moving on to Other Contexts
  • Interfacing
  • Parallels and Similarities
  • Resources for Interfacing
  • Central Viewpoint of Lesbian-of-Color Theory
  • The Opportunity for Interface
  • A Method of Connection and Interaction
  • Fusing Experience, Theory, and Social Reality
  • Testing the Theory
  • Implications for Teaching
  • Writing for Students
  • God Talk
  • But Who Do You Say That I Am?
  • Open Letters
  • Genesis
  • Creating Worship
  • Lossening Up and Meeting Needs
  • Stumbling onto a Solution
  • Vespers
  • But Is Vespers Christian Enough?
  • So, Who or What Is Worshiped Here?
  • Returning Favors--A New Kind of Leadership Role.