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Louie & Ernest Clay-Crew
Married February 2, 1974


12/21/1974
 
9/23/2009

• Draft Anglican Covenant Study Guide for consideration by Executive Council at its June 2007 meeting in Parsippany, NJ. The document is available in English, Spanish, and French. .
• 'Oh, It's You Again': Episcopal Visitations as Congregational Development. By the Rev. Michael J. Hanley (His DMIN Thesis at Seabury-Western in June 2005
• To Set Our Hope in Christ. The presentation of the Episcopal Church's team to the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Nottingham, June 2005

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• Constitution of the Anglican Consultative Council
• Response to Motion to Vacate Stipulation in the case of Calvary/Pittsburgh vs. The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, PA [This pdf document requires Acrobat Reader.]
• Constitution of the Anglican Consultative Council
• The Worship Well. Free online worship resource. (From the Church Publishing Group at the Church Pension Fund)
• An Imagined Conversation on the Lambeth Commission with the Rev. Ian T. Douglas, Ph.D.
• Who gets the property when a parish leaves a diocese? Here are the court decisions in several landmark cases from a quarter of a century ago:
  1. The Diocese of New Jersey vs. the Rector and Wardens of St. Stephen's Plainfield, NJ, 1980
  2. The Diocese of Newark vs. the Rector and Wardens of St. Mark's West Orange, NJ, 1980
  3. Diocese of Los Angeles vs. Holy Apostles, St. Matthias, St. Mary's, and Our Saviour

   

   

• Human Sexuality. A Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of the Church of Ireland (September 2003)
• Queers! For Christ's Sake! Louie Crew's latest poetry collection.
• Selected Essays by Louie Crew
• Books That Changed Your Life Several years ago I queried several lists of academics and Episcopalians asking them to tell me which books had most changed their lives.
• The theology paper on the blessing of same-sex relationships.
• Guidelines and Procedures for Continuing Alteration of the Calendar in the the Episcopal Church (from Lesser Feasts and Fasts)
• A Bishop Finds the Episcopacy Wanting. By Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham, Bishop of New Westminster.
• Anglican Theologians Consider the Validity of Women's Ordination
• What Is an 'Anglo-Catholic' Parish? by Bruce Ford.

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Sexual Orientation in The Constitutions and Canons of the Episcopal Church (2006) Canon 1.17.5. Rights of the Laity "No one shall be denied rights, status or access to an equal place in the life, worship, and governance of this Church because of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, disabilities or age, except as otherwise specified by Canons." (Page 51) Title III (Ministy), Canon 1: Of the Ministry of the Baptized Access to the Discernment Process Sec. 2. No person shall be denied access to the discernment process for any ministry, lay or ordained, in this Church because of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities or age, except as otherwise provided by these Canons. No right to licensing, ordination, or election is hereby established. (Page 63) Title III, Canon 9: Of the Appointment of Priests Written notice to the Ecclesiatical Authority 3.a.3. Written notice of the election of a Rector, signed by the Wardens, shall be forwarded to the Ecclesiastical Authority. If the Ecclesiastical Authority is satisfied that the person so elected is a duly qualified Priest and that such Priest has accepted the office to which elected, the notice shall be sent to the Secretary of the Convention, who shall record it. Race, color, ethnic origin, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities or age, except as otherwise specified by these canons, shall not be a factor in the determination of the Ecclesiastical Authority as to whether such person is a duly qualified Priest. The recorded notice shall be sufficient evidence of the relationship between the Priest and the Parish (Page 81) III.9.4. Of Letters Dimissory Section D: Grounds for nonacceptance The Ecclesiastical Authority shall not refuse to accept Letters Dimissory based on the applicant's race, color, ethnic origin, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities, or age. (page 84) III.9.6. Of Licenses Section A: Licenses to Officiate in a Diocese No Priest shall be denied such a license on account of the Priest's race, color, ethnic origin, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities, or age, except as otherwise provided in these canons. (Page 87) See Louie Crew's article Changing the Church: Lessons Learned in the Struggle to Reduce Institutional Heterosexism in the Episcopal Church first published in Combatting Homophobia, edited by James Sears & Walter Williams, Columbia University Press, 1997: 341-353 Rev. Michael Hopkins' article Toward a Full and Equal Claim: A Brief History of Lesbian and Gay Issues at General Convention

• Rio Statement on Human Sexuality. 1st Anglican National Consultation on Sexuality Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil
• Mission-Funding Task Force Report of the Diocese of Lexington.
• T O W A R D S C O M M U N I O N : RECOVERING HUMAN SEXUALITY AS AN ECUMENICAL CONCERN, by Simon Barrow
• Crimes of Hate, Conspiracy of Silence Amnesty International's Report on the Persecution of Lesbians and Gays in Africa
• From Quean Lutibelle's Pew. A collection of Louie Crew's poems.
• Constructive Criticism and Commentaries on the Institutional Church by the Rev. Canon Dr. Richard Nolan
• Homily Grits. A series of revolutionary sermons by The Rev. Grant M. Gallup.
• Anti-Racism Resources shared by the Rev. Canon Kristi Philip, Diocese of Spokane.
• Columbarium or a Memorial Garden? by the Rev. Dr. Tom Scott
• Archbishop Richard Holloway's Opening Remarks to the Diocese of Edinburgh 3/11/2000
• Archbishop Richard Holloway's Charge to the Diocese of Edinburgh 3/11/2000
• Conscientious Objection to the SCLM Report by the Rev. Hank Dwyer
• Reconciliation Revisited . By Ted Mollegen. A liberal's response to "The Episcopal Church Reconciliation Initiative," by the Rev. Brian Cox.
• Actions of General Convention re: homosexuality, 1976-1994 Phil Nicholson's collection
• Joy Anyway!. An on-going collection of reflections and visions of ECUSA pilgrims.
• Assays toward General Convention. An on-going collection of reflections.
• Bishop Spong's 12 Theses
• A collection of reactions to Bishop Spong's theses

Louie Crew at the AAC Summit, Oct. 7-9, 03 Click to enlarge

• Changing the Church, Louie Crew's account of "Lessons Learned in the Struggle to Reduce Institutional Heterosexism in the Episcopal Church"
• Sermon at the Consecration of Rt. Rev. John P. Croneberger, Bishop Co-Adjutor of Newark, Preached by The Rt. Rev. Cathy Roskam, The Rev. Fletcher Harper, and Dr. Louie Crew. 11/21/98
• Diocese of Newark's Report on Assisted Suicide
• Invitation to the Renewal of Vows of Ernest & Louie Crew-Crew on their 25th Anniversary, February 2, 1999
• An account of the service by the Rev. Canon Elizabeth Kaeton
• The Sermon at Matthew Shephard's Funeral.
• Archbishop Tutu Speaks Out on the World Council of Churches and Homosexuality. 3/3/98
• Anglican Canon Law
• By-Laws of Grace Church in Westwood, NJ -- By-Laws drafted by parishioner Michael Rehill, Esq., Chancellor of the Diocese of Newark, and shared here as a model for other parishes writing by-laws.
• The Dallas Statement Annotated by Eric MacDonald.
• The Domestic Partnership Benefits Policy of the Episcopal Church.
• Father Harry Coverston responds to a hostile response in my Guestbook
• House of Bishops 1994 Teaching on Sexuality
• The Kuala Lumpur Statement.
• The Koinonia Document. This is Bishop John S. Spong's statement supporting the ordination of lesbigay persons and the blessing of our relationships.
• The Province 7 Statement
• Second Sunday after Pentecost, 1998 , by The Rev'd Dr. Thomas C. H. Scott, Rector, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois
• Statement on Homosexuality by the Anglican Province of Rwanda
• "What 2-5 books have most shaped your sense of social justice?". This is a bibliography of the responses of many colleagues when I posed that question on several forums in the spring of 1998. Enjoy.
• Who are we to be fabulous?--Louie Crew's sermon at St. Stephen's, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 8/17/97.
• Sermon at the Service of Investiture of the XXV Presiding Bishop Most Rev. Frank Tracy Griswold

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