From Eileen: "A painful time for all but a proud time too"
Living in Ottawa, going to school in Kingston, a mature student commuting. The "Community of Concern" was popular in Ottawa, rallying...
We should have been friends.
Full disclosure: I am a white-straight-male in my 60's. The most vilified and blamed group for all the problems that have come to be in...
I am still here. I am still faithful.
I remember... Theological school... ...the last semester and reading/hearing about the movements against the church if it accepted...
From Rev. Janet Walker
As the church worked on sexuality and faith, I was a Conference Staff person, helping many congregations wo understand and to study the...
Being an outsider makes me seek to include others
For me, it started with AIDS in the early 1980s. Although I had been raised in the United Church, I found my spiritual awakening in a...
Rev. Richard DeLorme's Story
I went back into the ministry in 1982 and was in Aylmer, Quebec. I was also president of Conference, and I went to the 1988 vote at...
Pegi remembering 1982
I was there in 1988, not at General Council, but in ministry in the United Church, and I remember … When we made the recommendation to...
A reflection from Keltie van Binsbergen
What I remember about 1988 is actually 1989, because that’s when I attended Alberta and North West Conference as the delegate from my...
From Connie*
I came to the United Church in the Fall of 1988, that's the fall I moved to my town*. When I was a child I attended UCC Sunday School but...
From John*
To be honest, I’m not sure I have first hand stories of negative experiences during the 1988/89 period. As a denomination we had been...
