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The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), a teacher, a pilgrim,and an advocate for justice on many fronts.

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The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), a teacher, a pilgrim, an advocate for justice on many fronts, and a partner and dad of amazing young adult children.

As a pastor, he served eight churches since he was ordained in 1983. He taught for over a decade at Duke Divinity School and currently teaches at North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC). He is director of a religious non-profit, School of the Pilgrim (www.schoolofthepilgrim.com). As an advocate for justice, he has worked with people with disabilities and LGBTQ people in faith communities for full inclusion.  He has written, preached, taught, and been more of social movements on the topic of disability concerns and the place and presence of people who are LGBTQ, including four books on disability concerns (the latest is Beyond Accessibility) and gay parenting (On Being a Gay Parent). His memoir, "Divinity," is due for publication in the near future.

Brett, his partner, Brett's children, and their dogs, all make their home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. More: Brett Webb-Mitchell

Latest Content by The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell

Brett Webb-Mitchell: Out and Ordained

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell (PCUSA)

On July 10, 2011, the Presbyterian Church (USA) formally amended their constitution (The Book of Order), deleting the ordination requirement that ordained officers "live in chastity in singleness or fidelity in marriage." The new policy simply asserts "standards for ordained service reflect the church's desire to submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life." This simple phrase allows LGBTQ people to begin breaking out of our second-class captivity, no longer caught in a linguistic snare that denied us ordination, censure or being defrocked.

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The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell: Hope for a Brighter Day

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell (PCUSA)

As I pondered coming out of my lamentable self-constructed gay closet in the 1990s, I was drawn to gay-friendly Chapel Hill and Carrboro, oases in a desert of homophobic shrillness.

My closet - built by me but well fortified by the Church, the place of higher education where I worked, and the American South - was slowly coming apart as I began to live more honestly and openly. I was heartened by the simple fact that out-gay men such as Mike Nelson was Carrboro's mayor and Joe Herzenberg was on the Chapel Hill Town Council, and by advocates at Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, United Church of Chapel Hill, and Church of Reconciliation.

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Other Recent Content by The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell

August 25, 2011

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell: Encountering Prejudice

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell (PCUSA)

As an out Presbyterian preacher, I'd experienced prejudice before. But nothing like what I faced in North Carolina.

August 11, 2011

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell: Born This Way

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell (PCUSA)

"I'm Sam Peterson. And I'm incredibly handsome," said Sam as we sat an chatted over a cup of coffee at Chapel Hill's Foster's Market.

August 04, 2011

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell: Celebrating a Church's Change

The Rev. Brett Webb-Mitchell (PCUSA)

Now when I write or say to a congregation, "I am a Presbyterian minister, and I'm gay," I need not fear censure from the church, nor panic about being dismissed by a congregation or seminary.