Adam’s Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays

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Jimmy Creech, a United Methodist pastor in North Carolina, used to be visited one morning in 1984 by Adam, a longtime parishioner whom he liked and respected. Adam said that he used to be gay, and that he used to be leaving The United Methodist Church, which had just pronounced that “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” could not be ordained. He would not be a part of a community that excluded him. Creech found himself instinctively supporting Adam, telling him that he used to be sure that God loved and accepted him as he used to be. Adam’s Gift is Creech’s inspiring first-person account of how that conversation transformed his life and ministry.

Adam’s consult with prompted Creech to re-evaluate his belief that homosexuality used to be a sin, and to research the scriptural basis for the church’s position. He decided that the church used to be unsuitable, that scriptural translations and interpretations had been botched and dangerously distorted. As a Christian, Creech came to imagine that discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people used to be morally fallacious. This understanding compelled him to perform same-gender commitment ceremonies, which conflicted with church directives. Creech used to be tried twice by The United Methodist Church, and, after the second one trial, his ordination credentials were revoked. Adam’s Gift is a moving story and the most important chapter within the unfinished struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil and human rights.

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