AN URGENT OPEN LETTER FROM MELFebruary 5, 2010 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: […]
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"Gay Days" at the Mega-churches: LGBT Families & Allies Reflect on the American Family Outing
******************************************SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: June 24, 2008For Immediate Release Contact: Paige Schilt, Media DirectorCell: 512-659-1771paige@soulforce.org ****************************************** On Father’s Day 2008, a group of LGBT and straight-ally families attended services at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. The next day, a smaller group of about 8 families met with pastors and other staff of the influential mega-church […]
Chicago Tribune, "Gay Christians Meet with Rev. Bill Hybels"
Gay Christians meet with Rev. Bill Hybels and others at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington Soulforce urges understanding on a tour of mega-churches across the nation By Robert Mitchum and Manya A. Brachear | Tribune reporters 9:17 PM CDT, June 8, 2008 For Dotti Berry, healing the rift between religious conservatives and gay-marriage […]
Gay Dads to Celebrate Father’s Day at Saddleback Church
******************************************SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: June 4, 2008For Immediate Release Contact: Paige Schilt, Media DirectorCell: 512-659-1771paige@soulforce.org ****************************************** (Lake Forest, CA) This Father’s Day, June 15, a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and straight-ally families will spend their holiday in a way that is simultaneously extraordinary and profoundly commonplace: they will attend services at Saddleback Church, the […]
Bishop Long Meets with LGBT Families: A Story of Family Reconciliation
******************************************SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: June 2, 2008For Immediate Release Contact: Paige Schilt, Media DirectorCell: 512-659-1771paige@soulforce.org ****************************************** (Atlanta, GA) — Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, attended a Sunday meeting with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) families. The meeting, which also included New Birth elders and staff, was part of a […]
Washington Times, "Christians, Gays, Not of One Accord"
Christians, Gays, Not of One Accord Julie Duin It was a meeting of opposites: 30 conservative black Pentecostals from Hope Christian Church in Beltsville dining with 30 activists from Soulforce, a pro-gay religious group. While there was no rancor or overt anger, there also was no meeting of minds. After nearly 90 minutes of debate […]