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Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, spiritual teacher, AIDS activist, author and artist, was born Joyce Green in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940. She grew up in poverty in a Jewish family and claims that "the streets and... Read More
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Diarmaid MacCulloch was born 31 October 1951, in Kent, England; the only child of Rev. Nigel J.H. MacCulloch T.D. and Mrs. Jennie MacCulloch (née Chappell). Rev. MacCulloch was an army chaplain until 1956... Read More
Iain MacDonald
Iain McDonald was born in 1953 in Dundee, Scotland, where his father Norman was one of the youngest elders of the Church of Scotland. Iain moved with his parents to England in 1958 and, after a conventional... Read More
Bishop S.F. Ma-Hee
Bishop S.F. Ma-Hee is the eldest child of an evangelist/minister of music. She was the founder and first pastor of the Redefined Faith Worship Center (formerly Redefined Faith Unity Fellowship Church), the first... Read More
Jeremy Marks
Jeremy Marks was born in London, UK in 1952, the oldest of three children. He was brought up in the Anglican Church, a tradition he rejected for a time after witnessing the hypocrisy and spiteful judgement meted out... Read More
Rev. Elder Debbie Martin
The Rev. Elder Debbie Martin retired from a 19-year career as a law enforcement officer in Santa Rosa, California, and heard the call to ministry in the Metropolitan Community Church. She was ordained as a minister... Read More
Rev. Ken Martin
Rev. Ken Martin was appointed Elder of Metropolitan Community Church’s Region One in 2006. At that time he shared his journey that led to that moment. “I came into this world knowing why I am here. My... Read More
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin
Del Martin was born Dorothy L. Taliaferro in San Francisco, California, on May 5, 1921, to Jones and Mary Taliaferro. She was salutatorian of the first graduating class of George Washington High School in San... Read More
Allan Masur
Allan Masur, founder of Congregation B'nai Olam on Fire Island and one of the early leaders of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York City, was a native New Yorker. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College... Read More
Jay McCarty
Several hundred persons filled the sanctuary of Trinity U.M. Church in Kansas City on July 6, 1994, for "A Service of Joy and Thanksgiving for the Life of James 'Jay' McCarty," long-time Reconciling Congregation... Read More
Rev. Dr. Don McGaw
Don McGaw moved to Boston in 1964 to attend Boston University School of Theology. While at seminary he began his activism by choosing to focus on religious and homosexuality. He found good support from... Read More
Dr. Ted McIlvenna
The Rev. Dr. Robert Theodore McIlvenna was born on March 15, 1932, in Epping, New Hampshire. At an early age, he moved with his family to the Pacific Northwest where his father, an itinerant Methodist minister,... Read More
Brian McNaught
As a conscientious objector to the war in Vietnam, Brian McNaught began his alternative service in 1970 at The Michigan Catholic, weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Detroit. He worked there as a... Read More
John J. McNeill
For more than twenty-five years, John J. McNeill, an ordained priest and psychotherapist, has been devoting his life to spreading the good news of God's love for lesbian and gay Christians. One year after the... Read More
Robert I. McQueen
Robert I. McQueen was a prominent gay Mormon missionary, editor and activist. With the help of the Affirmation Los Angeles Chapter (organized on 28 January 1978), the first major publication... Read More
Dr. Michael Mendiola
Michael Manuel Mendiola was associate professor of Christian ethics at Pacific School of Religion (PSR) from 1994 to 2008. He was born in Globe, Arizona, in 1952. In the Roman Catholic tradition, he received received... Read More
Abbott Richard Mickley, O.S.Ae., Ph.D.
Richard Raymond Mickley, oldest of 10 children of Raymond and Clara Mickley, knew that he was called to be a priest by the time he was 13. He had grown up on the farm in what he calls "the beautiful rolling hills of... Read More
Rev. Rick Mixon
Randle R. "Rick" Mixon boarded a train in Boise, Idaho, in September 1965, bound for New York City and Columbia College. He rode with a half-dozen other boys recruited from Idaho. Along with the new metal trunk that... Read More
Rev. Dr. Sid L. Mohn
Rev. Dr. Sid L. Mohn was ordained as a clergyperson with the United Church of Christ in 1976, the first openly gay person ordained in the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ and the second openly... Read More
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Ph.D.
In the mid-1970's, while still closeted personally, Mollenkott began to advocate at church conferences in behalf of lesbian and gay Christians. In l978, with Letha Dawson Scanzoni, she published Is the... Read More
Rev. Irene Monroe
The Rev. Irene Monroe is a religion columnist, public theologian, and motivational speaker. Monroe was recently featured on the Caroline Myss's Show "The Journey" (February 2002) as women you "got the power", and in... Read More
Paul Mortensen
Lowell Paul Mortensen was born in 1941 as a fourth generation Mormon and was raised in Riverton, Utah. In 1960, he went on a Mormon mission to the Eastern Atlantic States, an experience that he would later... Read More
Andre Musskopf
André S. Musskopf is a lay theologian, raised in the Lutheran tradition in Brazil from Sunday school to seminary. He has been denied ordination by the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil. He has... Read More