The Many Paths Spiritual Care Team is a volunteer group of LGBTQ faith leaders first organized in January 2017. This multi-faith, multi-gender, multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-lingual team is available for loving support and presence at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference. We are lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, transgender, non-binary, and queer religious and spiritual leaders representing many traditions, here to be with you however you need, no matter which—if any—path you claim.
2026 Spiritual Care Team Coordinators
- Rev. Lauren Bennett: Minister in the Metropolitan Community Churches tradition
- Teo Drake: practicing Buddhist and yogi, blue-collar queer-identified trans man living with AIDS, heart-centered rabble-rouser
- Rev. Candy Holmes: Spiritual activist and healer with a justice-focused ministry perspective
- Alex Kapitan: Unitarian Universalist community minister, queer and genderqueer singing roller derby player, organizer, holy troublemaker
- Rev. Mykal Slack
- Penelope Williams
- Rev. Alba Onofrio: Queer, feminist Christian pastor and Latinx bruja troublemaker
- Anthony Rios: Shamanic teacher, healer, and curandero in traditional Mexican practices
- Tynan Power
- Randall Furash-Stewart
- G Williams
Past Coordinators
- Rev. Rosa Manríquez: Ordained Roman Catholic Womanpriest ministering to all who have been made unwelcome
- Brother Quill: Queer Trans-Masculine Syncretic Christian Pagan (Methodist Lay Minister, ULC ordained; Celebrant in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids), interfaith cyber chaplain, and peripatetic chicken farmer
- Rev. Marie Alford-Harkey: Queer Christian pastor with a heart for youth, young adults, and social justice
- Rev. April Alford-Harkey: Chaplain, Episcopal deacon, and companion to ministry dog Sandy
- LeLaina Romero
- Raquel Saraswati
- Rev. Lynn Young: Native American Traditionalist/Christian, Two Spirit, ritualist, drummer, drum maker, rhythmic spirituality facilitator/practitioner, Christian Pastor, troublemaker
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