diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 9a06912..7fa0b19 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ Convert some HTML to Markdown:
     from markdownify import markdownify as md
     md('<b>Yay</b> <a href="http://github.com">GitHub</a>')  # > '**Yay** [GitHub](http://github.com)'
 
-Specify tags to exclude (blacklist):
+Specify tags to exclude:
 
 .. code:: python
 
     from markdownify import markdownify as md
     md('<b>Yay</b> <a href="http://github.com">GitHub</a>', strip=['a'])  # > '**Yay** GitHub'
 
-\...or specify the tags you want to include (whitelist):
+\...or specify the tags you want to include:
 
 .. code:: python
 
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ Options
 Markdownify supports the following options:
 
 strip
-  A list of tags to strip (blacklist). This option can't be used with the
+  A list of tags to strip. This option can't be used with the
   ``convert`` option.
 
 convert
-  A list of tags to convert (whitelist). This option can't be used with the
+  A list of tags to convert. This option can't be used with the
   ``strip`` option.
 
 autolinks
@@ -110,6 +110,18 @@ Options may be specified as kwargs to the ``markdownify`` function, or as a
 nested ``Options`` class in ``MarkdownConverter`` subclasses.
 
 
+Converting BeautifulSoup objects
+================================
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from markdownify import MarkdownConverter
+
+    # Create shorthand method for conversion
+    def md(soup, **options):
+        return ImageBlockConverter(**options).convert_soup(soup)
+
+
 Creating Custom Converters
 ==========================
 
diff --git a/markdownify/__init__.py b/markdownify/__init__.py
index 098c784..82262d4 100644
--- a/markdownify/__init__.py
+++ b/markdownify/__init__.py
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ class MarkdownConverter(object):
 
     def convert(self, html):
         soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+        return self.convert_soup(soup)
+
+    def convert_soup(self, soup):
         return self.process_tag(soup, convert_as_inline=False, children_only=True)
 
     def process_tag(self, node, convert_as_inline, children_only=False):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 895ed62..3e5d27b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ read = lambda filepath: codecs.open(filepath, 'r', 'utf-8').read()
 pkgmeta = {
     '__title__': 'markdownify',
     '__author__': 'Matthew Tretter',
-    '__version__': '0.10.2',
+    '__version__': '0.10.3',
 }
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_custom_converter.py b/tests/test_custom_converter.py
index c7944ab..a3e33ac 100644
--- a/tests/test_custom_converter.py
+++ b/tests/test_custom_converter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from markdownify import MarkdownConverter
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 
 class ImageBlockConverter(MarkdownConverter):
@@ -16,3 +17,9 @@ def test_img():
 
     assert md('<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" title="Optional title" />') == '![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")\n\n'
     assert md('<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" />') == '![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)\n\n'
+
+
+def test_soup():
+    html = '<b>test</b>'
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+    assert MarkdownConverter().convert_soup(soup) == '**test**'