
I've just discovered the work of Christian Pankhurst, an (apparently) out Gay teacher of Conversations With God and a leader in the "Humanity's Team" movement. "Apparently" Gay because I'm assuming he uses the word "partner" the way I use it, as a shortened form of "life partner":
"Christian is a graduate of the Fastrak Leadership Education Program and personally mentored by Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations With God series. Christian and his partner, Andrew Stewart, are on a world tour covering the US, Europe and Australia presenting their two most popular events, the 'Embracing Change Experience' and the 'Being It!' five day intensive."
You can check out "Embracing Change" June 17-19, 2005, in Ashland, Oregon.
A leader in the Gay Spirituality movement recently expressed to me that from a marketing perspective he suspects "that what's needed to get this all going is a hot young man who'll turn everybody's head with his good looks, who'll appear on the cover of 'The Advocate' barechested to proclaim a new Gay religion that has no connection with anything in the past and who gets his start through some kind of media event/news crisis that brings massive publicity."
While "Looking at Lookism", as Joe Perez put it, I think we should certainly consider getting behind anybody with all the ingredients (body, mind, spirit, ability, willingness) to make spiritual inquiry and practice more popular in Gay culture. Hmm...Could one of those people be Christian Pankhurst?
After all Goko Media's attempts this last year to identify LGBT Spiritual Resource Providers working in this field for the OutSpirit Guide, I love that I'm still pleasantly surprised by who turns up. I wonder what other "great hopes" remain undiscovered?
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