Andrew Comiskey
Andrew Comiskey is an American conservative Christian political activist and is the founder of Desert Stream Ministries, a ministry formerly affiliated with Exodus International.[1] He has written several books based on his experience with turning away from a homosexual identity and avoiding homosexual relationships and behaviors, and gives seminars to those who wish to be free from such relationships and behaviors.[2] He is considered to be a prominent ex-gay leader,[3] and has appeared as a guest on The 700 Club.[4]
Biography
Comiskey started a support group for those struggling with same-sex attraction at the Vineyard Santa Monica with the encouragement of the pastor. He started his own organization called Desert Stream / Living Waters Ministries in 1980. In 1981, Comiskey became a pastor in the Vineyard Christian Fellowship. Later, Comiskey and Desert Stream would move and become part of Vineyard Anaheim, but this association finished when he moved to Kansas City.[5] In the following years, Comiskey continued his work as a pastor and leader of Desert Stream / Living Waters Ministries. Comiskey cites author and ministry leader Leanne Payne as a major influence. Comiskey gives seminars on restoring identity and wholeness and avoiding homosexual relationships and behaviors and has written four books on the subject; Comiskey's Pursuing Sexual Wholeness became one of the most popular books on the topic.[6]
Comiskey married Annette in 1981, with whom he had started the Desert Stream Ministries. The couple went on to have four children.[7][8]
In April 2011, Comiskey converted to Roman Catholicism.[9] This conversion was controversial among the Protestants that used his material.
Publications
- Freeing the Homosexual, Desert Stream Ministries, 1988, Template:ISBN
- Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual, Charisma House 1989, Template:ISBN
- Crosscurrent, Desert Stream Press, 1999, Template:ISBN
- The Kingdom of God & the Homosexual, Desert Stream Ministries, 2000, Template:ISBN
- Strength in Weakness: Overcoming Sexual and Relational Brokenness, InterVarsity press 2003, Template:ISBN
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