Our Stories 
From quiet seething to exile to finding a church home(0)
May 29, 2010
Nehemiah Luckett
My name is Nehemiah Luckett. I was born on Sunday, May 2, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi. Rumor has it that I was in church the following Sunday and rain, sleet, or snow, most Sundays for the next 18 years. Options are limited when your father is the pastor and your mother the Sunday school [...]
UMC anti-gay policies “hurt my soul”
Rev. Judy Stevens
My name is Judy Stevens and I have been a United Methodist minister for 18 years. The current UMC policies in relation to lesbians and gay men hurt my soul. They hurt my soul because I have seen and heard the pain of gay people who were members of the churches I served. [...]