News release On June 17, 2003, while Soulforce was holding a vigil in the Phoenix heat outside the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, the convention’s Task Force on Ministry to Homosexuals released their report. The task force was formed in response to a motion at
Co-authored with Stephen Swecker, editor of Zion’s Herald Northwestern, one of America’s great universities, was begun by the Methodist Church in 1850 outside Chicago in a church parsonage. The school had outstanding football teams in the early years of the 20th century and came to
Bishop Tuell delivered this speech on the occasion of Claremont (Calif.) United Methodist Church’s celebration of its 10th anniversary of becoming a Reconciling Congregation. If I were to give a one sentence answer to the question it would be: “I changed my mind when I
Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken, minister of Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church (USA), was found guilty April 21 of violating the PCUSA Constitution, which requires ministers to discriminate against gays and lesbians in marriage. He will be rebuked for his actions. The Permanent Judicial Council of the
News release The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) transmitted a progress report on the church’s studies on sexuality to the 2003 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The Church Council is the ELCA’s board of directors and serves as the legislative authority of
Soulforce News release The three gay Catholics who were arrested in November 2002 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) were found guilty of the criminal misdemeanor of unlawful entry after a two
News release Although it is highly unlikely that the new archbishop of Canterbury will be martyred, like some of his more famous predecessors, the road to the office as head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion has been filled with some
News release Despite the United Methodist Church’s restrictive policies regarding homosexuality, many gays and lesbians remain in the denomination because they feel accepted at their local churches. That’s a key finding of a study conducted by Jamie Bigham Stroud of Philadelphia, a marriage and family
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, in St. Louis, the immovable object of ignorance at the Southern Baptist Convention met the irresistible force of truth in Soulforce. Both Soulforce and Southern Baptists turned a corner in St. Louis. Soulforce moved into a new level of non-violent
My husband and I spent June 7-11, 2002 with Soulforce studying the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. One of our teachers was Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi. We were choosing to spend our own 35th wedding anniversary preparing to