Storming the Gate: Fighting Religion-based Oppression with Soul Force

by Mel White, Chris Hedges (Foreword)

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.

334 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 2023

About the author

James Melville "Mel" White is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting auto-biographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians.

Reviews

[Terristeed · Rating 5 out of 5]

As life changing as his first book

Mel White’s “Stranger at the Gate,” saved my life as a 20 something lesbian who had just graduated Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. His ministry has inspired my own in MCC churches throughout the US. God bless him for his fearlessness and his faithfulness to sharing the good news to ALL God’s children.