Social Impact Authors: How & Why Author Mitchell Kesller Is Helping To Change Our World

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to confront it. Writing this book was scary. Seeing the amount of hate I often get online because of it is scary. Seeing how people would rather hate than love is absolutely terrifying. But the more they do it, the louder I’ll be, not because of who I am but because of who I’m fighting for.

As part of my series about “authors who are making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mitchell Kesleer.

Mitchell Kesller’s book Broke The Bread, Spilled The Tea aims to explore one of Christianity’s most marginalized groups and breaks down exactly what the Bible says about queerness through a contextual, historical, and lexicological lens. Bridging the gap between identity and faith is possible when we conclude that perhaps the God preached on the Sunday pulpits isn’t the fullness of who He actually is. For 14 years serving the ministry, Kesller battled with his own identity like many bi and queer individuals who come from a faith-based background; through his personal…