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Stephen V. Sprinkle is Professor of Practical Theology, and has held the office of Director of Field Education and Supervised Ministry since 1994 at Brite Divinity School, located on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. A native of North Carolina, he is an ordained minister of the Alliance of Baptists. Dr. Sprinkle was named 2010 Hero of Hope by the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, Texas for his advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community, and serves as Theologian in Residence at the Cathedral. He is the first openly gay member of the Brite Divinity School Faculty, and the first gay scholar to be tenured in its 98-year history.
Dr. Sprinkle is the author of several articles and chapters in books, and of three books, Disciples and Theology (1997) and Ordination (2004), both published by Chalice Press. His newest book, entitled Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims (2011), is now published by Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Dr. Sprinkle tells the stories of fourteen representative persons out of the thousands of LGBTQ people murdered for their sexual orientation and gender non-conformity, in order to call the country to enact and enforce hate crimes laws for the protection of all Americans. Research for the book has taken him all over the United States. In 2012, Unfinished Lives won the Silver Medal in Gay/Lesbian Non-Fiction from the Independent Book Publishers Awards (IPPYs) in New York City. Dr. Sprinkle is also the Founder and Director of the Unfinished Lives Project, an online resource dedicated to the memories of LGBTQ hate crimes victims: http://unfinishedlivesblog.com. He and his partner Rob Rodriguez live in Dallas, Texas.
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