97- REV. DR. DURRELL WATKINS — Senior Minister, Sunshine Cathedral
Durrell Watkins, the senior minister of the Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale, earned his doctor of divinity degree from the Episcopal Divinity School, for which he wrote his dissertation Popular Entertainment as Queer Canon. His dramatic preaching style and dynamic personality has been credited with much of the continuing success of Sunshine, where about 600 members worship and more than 2,000 utilize the campus for other services. The church is a part of the metropolitan church movement that got its start in 1968, founded by LGBT Christians and their straight allies. Durrell is a regular columnist with the Agenda, and is the husband of the church’s executive minister, the Rev. Dr. Robert Griffin.
