After almost forty years, Exodus International has closed its doors. It was the oldest Christian services organization of its type and the market leader in reparative/ex-gay/sexual orientation change therapy. Soulforce, an interfaith organization that works to free lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people
For the past 10 years, Soulforce has been using the non-violent tactics preached by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to try to change the hearts and minds of those who believe gays and lesbians should be excluded from church and denied equal rights in
Listen to the podcast interview Judgmental, hypocritical and anti-gay. Those are the top three terms used to describe the Christian church by young people in a recent Barna Group survey. Soulforce is working this year to change those attitudes about Christianity with several events, including
Listen to the podcast interview Since 1999, Soulforce has been working hard to secure a place at the table for GLBT people in church and society. They’ve staged sit-ins at Focus on the Family, protested at denominational conventions and synods, lobbied for same-gender marriage and
The fifteenth podcast, or “Godcast” from Whosoever: An Online Magazine for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Christians, features an interview with Rev. Dr. Mel White about his latest book, Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right, and what’s going on with Soulforce,
The twelfth podcast, or “Godcast” from Whosoever: An Online Magazine for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Christians, features a wrap-up of the Soulforce Equality Ride with Jarrett Lucas, the co-director of the East bus.
Listen to the podcast episode I don’t understand fundamentalists. I wish I did. It would make things a whole lot easier. If I understood them, I’d know how to talk to them, how to convince them that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people of faith
The eleventh podcast, or “Godcast” from Whosoever: An Online Magazine for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Christians, is a special edition featuring the Soulforce Equality Ride stop at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. In addition, Whosoever editor Candace Chellew-Hodge reads her essay, “I
The tenth podcast, or “Godcast” from Whosoever: An Online Magazine for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Christians, features our first update from the Soulforce Equality Ride with our Whosoever correspondent Mandy Matthias. We also talk with Dottie Berry and Roby Sapp about their experience of
Kara Speltz spent a week on Soulforce’s Equality Ride and shares her experiences: Initially, I was torn between whether I should do the Texas leg or the California leg of the Equality Ride. In retrospect, I’m glad I chose the Texas leg, because I doubt