Jimmy Creech

Activism Afterward, Creech became a founding member of the North Carolina Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality, an interfaith same-sex marriage advocacy group, co-author of the Dallas Principles, was a participant in the Marriage Equality Express, and became board chairman of the North Carolina Social Justice Project, a progressive policy and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating inequality in North Carolina.

Creech appeared in A Union in Wait, a 2001 Sundance Channel documentary film about same-sex marriage. In 2007 Creech became the executive director of Faith In America, a non-profit organisation founded by Mitchell Gold, focused on educating people about religion-based bigotry.

Creech's memoir, Adam's Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church's Persecution of Lesbians and Gays was published by Duke University Press in 2011. He was interviewed on The State of Things on WUNC on April 11, 2011, to discuss his new book.

In 2024, the United Methodist Church ended its bans on same-sex marriages and LGBTQ clergy, and allowed pastors who were defrocked under those policies to apply for reinstatement. Creech told the Associated Press that he was pleased by the decisions but would not seek reinstatement, saying that "I am not nor cannot be in pastoral ministry at this time in my life".

, Creech lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.