1 April 2009

New World Church Standing Team: Human Sexuality, Faith, and Community

Community of Christ has explored issues of sexuality for many years. As a worldwide church, we will continue to examine this critical aspect of our humanness with the understanding that many issues related to it are particular to the contexts and cultures where people of the church live and serve.

A new World Church Standing Team will focus on these issues: Human Sexuality, Faith, and Community. This team integrates the purposes of the former Human Sexuality and Homosexuality and the Church committees. Church leaders, Human Sexuality chairperson Matthew Naylor, and Homosexuality and the Church chairperson Kathy Robinson shared in this decision.

Naylor will lead the new team and Robinson will serve as a team member. The First Presidency will invite additional people to serve on this team. The priority of the Human Sexuality, Faith, and Community Team is to create a sexual ethics statement guided by our Enduring Principles that will serve as a resource in the ongoing study and examination of sexuality throughout the worldwide church.

This announcement will also be shared in April through the Herald, www.CofChrist.org  and other outlets.

In Christ’s Peace,

THE FIRST PRESIDENCY