Candace Chellew-Hodge

Candace Chellew-Hodge is the founder/editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians and currently serves as the pastor of Jubilee! Circle in Columbia, S.C. She is also the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians (Jossey-Bass, 2008)

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Religion Dispatches

How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches "Outlaw Christianity"

Back in the mid-1990s, I excitedly announced to my mother—who had spent a good part of her adult life as the wife of a Southern Baptist minister—that I was going to enroll in seminary. She looked up…

Candace Chellew-Hodge

July 8, 2016

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Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

I’m a prude. Let’s just get that out there right now. I blame my Southern Baptist upbringing for my prudishness. I was taught that the body was inherently shameful, the earthen vessel we had been…

Candace Chellew-Hodge

May 12, 2016

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Why It's Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

Security sells. That’s why, says retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, despite his best-selling controversial books and popular speeches, his position on Jesus and the Christian church will…

Candace Chellew-Hodge

February 24, 2016

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