Storming the Gate: Fighting Religion-based Oppression with Soul Force
Ebook
Storming the Gate picks up the story forty years after the publication of Stranger at the Gate (1993). Mel and his husband, Gary Nixon, have founded Soulforce and recruited an army of volunteers to help end the lie. Their nonviolent protests made headlines across the nation. These are the heroic and sometimes hilarious stories of Mel, Gary, and their volunteers being harassed, arrested, tried, and jailed for doing battle with the lie and with the Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical liars who know the truth but refused to tell it.
“Mel White is a modern-day prophet. He stands, as he has been called to by the gospel, with the crucified of the earth.”
—Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
“What a life! This wonderful page-turner is the story of a hugely modest man who refuses to see himself as a hero—but most assuredly is. If you’re an atheist like me who hadn’t even known the difference between an evangelical and a fundamentalist, you will be no less moved and riveted by his journey.”
—Andrew Tobias, author of The Best Little Boy in the World
“Through laughter and tears, Mel White weaves an amazing story about growing older and wiser. He is learning what it means to grow old with grit and gratitude after a lifetime battling religious bigotry and spiritual violence. What a magnificent tale he spins, and what a gift it is!”
—Paul W. Dodd, retired military chaplain
- Title: Storming the Gate: Fighting Religion-based Oppression with Soul Force
- Authors: Chris Hedges, Mel White
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666749373, 9781666749366, 1666749362, 9781666749359, 1666749354, 1666749370
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666749373
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-23T22:36:40Z
Mel White has been a Christian minister, author, and filmmaker all his adult life. Raised as an Evangelical Christian and taught that homosexuality was a sin, Mel fought to overcome his own homosexual orientation for decades in all the ways available to him: prayer, Christian counseling, psychotherapy, exorcism, electric shock, marriage, and family.