by John Smid | Feb 12, 2017 | ExExGay - Conversion Therapy, John's Current Blog, LGBTQ Related Content, Love In Action
Wesley Frank Worthen (1929-2017) On February 11, 2017 Frank Worthen passed from this life into the next. A very controversial figure for most of his life, I met him in 1986 and entered into the controversy myself. Frank was the founder of Love In Action in 1973. Frank...
by John Smid | Aug 17, 2016 | ExExGay - Conversion Therapy, John's Current Blog, LGBTQ Related Content, Love In Action, MyLifeStory
ExGay Ideology – Costly to the heart, the soul, relationships and the pocketbook! The ExGay movement began in the middle 1970’s. Believing in faith that God could do anything, people who came through the Jesus movement believed that God could deliver gay people from...
by John Smid | Aug 9, 2016 | ExExGay - Conversion Therapy, John's Current Blog, LGBTQ Related Content
I recently read this story from a FaceBook friend. I found it was succinct and communicated an extremely common struggle that LGBT people go through when they’ve been raised in traditional Christianity. I grew up in the Evangelical Church. From moment I was a baby, I...
by John Smid | May 31, 2016 | ExExGay - Conversion Therapy, John's Current Blog, LGBTQ Related Content
We love red, or blue. We love a good steak, or hate brussels sprouts. Some like it hot, others cold. Some are tall, others short. Blonde hair, or black? Why would we ever believe that our sexuality or our gender is more black and white than anything else? We are far...
by John Smid | Feb 11, 2016 | ExExGay - Conversion Therapy, John's Current Blog, LGBTQ Related Content
A man recently wrote to me about the suicide of a common friend. He and our friend once went through the ministry Love In Action when I was the director there. I’m thankful for the opportunity to continue our dialogue even though we have gone many directions...
by John Smid | Jul 31, 2014 | ExExGay - Conversion Therapy, John's Current Blog, LGBTQ Related Content, Love In Action, Uncategorized
I was involved in Love In Action for twenty-two years and served on the board for Exodus International for eleven of those years. I entered the ministry with the hope that as self proclaimed experts in their field, they could help me to eradicate homosexuality from my...
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