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Author Archives: Jeffrey Hoffman

Billy Graham’s granddaughter will moderate BJUnity’s panel discussion

As previously announced, next Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:00 pm, BJUnity — the affirming alternative for lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, questioning, intersex, and straight affirming allies — will host …

BJUnity will present Matthew Vines in Greenville on March 23, 2015

For too long, it seems the conversation between LGBT+ folks and conservative Christians in Upstate South Carolina has been more of a shouting match than a dialogue. BJUnity seeks to …

A BJUnity Survivor’s response to the G.R.A.C.E. Report

Editor’s note: this past weekend, a sexual abuse survivor who is among the BJUnity constituency shared the following story with our community. With her permission, we are sharing her story …

Bless them which persecute you…

a final blessing for Fred Phelps by Jeffrey Hoffman* Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the …

BJUnity Board Member to give “Queer Life at BJU” lecture at CUNY Graduate Center

February 18, 2014, New York, NY — Bob Jones University, currently embattled for cancelling an independent sexual abuse investigation one month before its completion, is often described as the “Fortress …

Bob Jones University must resume the G.R.A.C.E. investigation

It has been a little over a week since I and the other witnesses who participated in the sexual abuse investigation of Bob Jones University received this shocking e-mail from …

Our Thanksgiving Wall of Gratitude

Giving Thanks – a repost We’re taking a break from responding to “Gay Chapel Week” today to give thanks. Last year, we posted this Thanksgiving Wall of Gratitude. We liked …

Bob Jones University’s perception problem

BJU’s lgbtquia+ alumni respond to “Gay Chapel Week” by Jeffrey Hoffman Bob Jones University has a perception problem. There are indications that at least some on the Administration at BJU …

Is Bob Jones University’s “Gay Chapel Week” A Farce?

November 12, 2013, Greenville, SC — last week, Bob Jones University released an internal memo announcing that it would spend a week of mandatory chapel messages discussing “same sex attraction” …

In memoriam Matthew Shepard, Tyler Clementi, Cemia Acoff, et al

This past Sunday morning at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., churchgoers heard a powerful sermon from the Cathedral’s Dean, the Very Rev’d Gary Hall. Taking as his text Sunday …