kevin garcia

they/Them | Spirituality COach, Author, Podcaster

Kevin Miguel Garcia is a spirituality coach, a mystical theologian + practitioner, an author / speaker, and a wild lover of life based in Atlanta, GA. After coming out in the fall of 2015 as a queer Christian, Kevin has reached thousands of individuals across the globe with messages of God’s unending love for all people. regardless of who they are, what they profess, or what they actually believe. Kevin’s the author of Bad Theology Kills: undoing toxic beliefs and reclaiming your spiritual authority, published Janurary 2020. And their most recent book, What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a practice for connecting with your divine self, was published last year the same week as our Jan 2024 conference.  Kevin’s work also appears in several anthologies by queer people of faith.

Through their work as a digital creative and public theologian, Kevin has used their writing, podcast (A Tiny Revolution), and YouTube Channel to help foster communities of authentic spiritual seeking, pulling apart the bad theology and beginning to reconstruct sustainable spiritual practices. Kevin believes that by telling our stories, we set others free to tell their own.

Kevin holds a Masters of Arts in Practical Theology from Columbia Theological Seminary (2020) and a Bachelors of Music in Choral music education from Christopher Newport University (2013). 

In addition to LGBTQ liberation and the liberation of all beings, Kevin’s passions include yelling at the TV during Ru Paul’s Drag Race, dancing while their fellow queers spin house music, finding good tacos, and really horrible dad jokes.

Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee

HE/him | ethicist, Pastor, author, advocate

Rev. Prof. Dr. David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, Chair of Christian Social Ethics at Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam, and Senior Research Fellow, International Baptist Theological Study Centre. He is the elected past-president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. Gushee is the author, co-author, or editor of 28 books, including the bestsellers Kingdom Ethics and Changing Our Mind. His other most notable works are Still Christian, After Evangelicalism, Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, and Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies. With his works read around the world, and an active lecturing schedule on several continents, he has global impact in the field of Christian ethics. A leader in the growing post-evangelical movement, he has also put feet to his faith in several activist campaigns. Gushee and his wife, Jeanie, live in Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more at https://davidpgushee.com/