6/10/2006
Crabtree, Jack. Better Safe than Sued. Group Publishing, Loveland, CO,1998.
- Everything you never thought of with respect to child/ youth safety. Hazards around every corner! But a good wake up call for those who seem naive.
Melton, Joy Thornburg. Safe Sanctuaries for Youth: Reducing the Risk of Abuse in Youth Ministries. Discipleship Resources, Nashville, TN, 2003. http://www.discipleshipresources.org.
- more directed at Middle School and High School programming.
Glazer, Daphne. Trust and Trespass: Quaker Meetings and Sex Offenders. Britain Yearly Meeting, 2004.
- this book addresses safety, trust, and forgiveness for Friends.
Quaker Home Service, Britain Yearly Meeting. Meeting Safety. 2001.
- While the language and specific legal details in this booklet are particular to the UK, the queries and examples are from a Quaker perspective, making this resource valuable even in the US.
Link to Hoffman, Janet. "Eros and the Life of the Spirit." at http://flgbtqc.quaker.org/Each_Us_Inev/EOUI-Hoffman.PDF.
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC). Each of Us Inevitable: Some Keynote Addresses, Given at Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns and Friends General Conference Gatherings, 1977–1993, 2003, at http://flgbtqc.quaker.org/eachofus.html.
Jorgenson, Christel. "Child Safety" in FGC REsource, Friends General Conference (FGC), Autumn 2004, Issue 8. http://fgcquaker.org/religious-ed/re-newsletter-08-fall04.html
Canadian Yearly Meeting Personnel Committee, Policy on Sexual Harassment at http://www.fgcquaker.org/library/fosteringmeetings/0304.html.
Rochester MM (NY), Minute on Dealing with a Child Abuser in the Meeting Community, 5/14/1995, at http://www.fgcquaker.org/library/fosteringmeetings/0305.html
11/2004
Various items on the Minutes page, including links to FGC, BYM, and NEYM minutes regarding sexual orientation, and links to collections of minutes on sexual orientation issues.
Link to New England Yearly Meeting Ministry and Counsel. Living with Oneself and Others, especially Chapter 2, Human Sexuality. 1/2001, pp. 5-12. http://www.neym.org/lwoo.pdf (186K for full document)
6/28/2004
Calvi, John. "Quakers, Sexuality, and Spirituality" in Friends Journal, 6/2004, Vol. 50, No. 6, p. 16. (reference only, not the article itself)/
11/28/2002
Watson, Elizabeth. Sexuality: a Part of Wholeness. Pamphlet. Family Relations Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1982, reprinted 1990; reprinted 2001 by Care and Counsel for Meetings and Members, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. in Acrobat (pdf) format
- highly recommended.
11/25/2002
Towards a Quaker View of Sex: An Essay by a Group of Friends. Quaker Home Service, London, 1963, revised 1964. Excerpts are available at http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/sexorient/quaker.html
