Transgender pastor prompts uneasy questions for Methodists
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-10-18-transgender-methodist_N.htm)
By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
To conservative Methodists, Phoenix embodies another front in the "culture wars," a rebel who has defied God and nature and should be removed from ministry.
To mainstream society, Phoenix is an enigma who transcends traditional sexual boundaries, provoking uncomfortable questions about the interplay between body, mind and soul.