Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
By: Mel White | The News & Advance Published: April 15, 2012 Updated: April 15, 2012 – 6:00 AM On Palm Sunday, April 1, Gary Nixon and I celebrated 30 years together. Ten of those years have been spent in beautiful Lynchburg. In recent months, however, we’ve made the painful decision to sell our... Read More
“Angry Queers” Break Stained-Glass Window
Posted: 06/13/2012 5:04 pm There is an Internet story gone viral about “Angry Queers” breaking historic stained-glass windows in the old Mars Hill Church in Portland, Oregon. In all the stories I can find no verifiable evidence that “queers” did it. Eye witnesses claim that black-hooded youth were throwing rocks at the windows. Fox News... Read More
Not Bitter – Old Activist Looks Back
After my last Huffington Post Blog, “Angry Queers” Break Stained Glass Windows, I received this email: “Always enjoy reading your words and hearing your thoughts but sometimes I think you’re trying so hard to make your point that you come across bitter.” Me, the happy homo, bitter? Corny…preachy…bombastic…boring, maybe, but “bitter?” Today is my wedding... Read More
Playing the ‘Wrath of God’ Card
President Obama Says ‘No’ to Holy Terrorism Mel in the Huffington Post Posted: 05/25/2012 3:55 am When President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, he gave our nation a far greater gift than marriage equality for millions of gay and lesbian couples. He spent a lot of time “evolving” on the issue, but... Read More
For LGBT People Best and Worst of Times
Good News! Bad News! Huffington Post Posted: 06/01/2012 7:50 pm On June 1, 2012, one Los Angeles Times headline reads, “Southern Baptist pastor Fred Luter is set to become the first black president of a denomination with a segregationist history.” Just two inches away a second headline reads: “Key part of marriage act ruled invalid.”... Read More
Mel Speaks at GLAD Banquet
Mel hopes for the church’s full inclusion of God’s GLBTQ children
Adam’s Gift by Jimmy Creech
JIMMY CREECH long time Soulforce friend and former board member will be reading and signing his new book: ADAM’S GIFT Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh April 10 @ 3 pm The Regulator, Durham April 25 @ 7 pm The Internationalist Bookstore, Chapel Hill April 27 @ 7 pm McIntyres Books @ Fearrington Village, Pittsboro April 30th... Read More
OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN TELEVANGELISTS IN UGANDA
An Open Letter from Soulforce to Jan and Paul Crouch, founders of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and the Evangelical Christian broadcasters who are featured on Lighthouse Television, TBN’s affiliate in Uganda, including: Matthew Crouch, Joyce Meyer, Andrew Wommack, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, and Franklin Graham: By now you are well aware... Read More
NEW FUTURE FOR CHILDREN, CAMBODIA
Q: WHY ARE YOU AND GARY SO INTERESTED IN HELPING CHILDREN IN CAMBODIA? A: In the 1970s during the war in Vietnam, Nixon launched a “secret war” against Cambodia dropping 2,000,000 tons of bombs on an estimated 200,000 Cambodian targets with devastating results for family life in Cambodia for generations to come. In 1975, Pol... Read More
A Manifesto by John Shelby Spong
A Manifesto! The Time Has Come! John Shelby Spong I have made a decision. I will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the church with anyone. I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right-wing Christians about how the Bible condemns homosexuality, as if that point of view... Read More