For Life Is a Journey

Ralph McFadden was married and raised two children. But in the mid-1990s he decided that living with integrity meant living authentically coming out as the gay man he was. In For Life is a Journey author McFadden a former pastor denominational executive and hospice chaplain explores his own journey as he confronts the church's blindness to the damaging injustice of homophobia.<p> For Life is a Journey includes McFadden's reflections about claiming his identity as a gay man and surfacing his soul. He is honest about the depth of grief and anger that accompanied the changes he was forced to make in terms of work his marriage family and friends. Through stories poems and reflections he discusses the sense of betrayal and abandonment that he experienced when the church that had so profoundly shaped his commitments to peace reconciliation and justice now rejected him. McFadden explores his concerns on social issues that affect people who are lesbian gay bisexual and transgender. He also recognizes the internal changes that have occurred as a result of his journey toward authenticity and truth. From the struggling the discovering and the exploring came renewal and rebirth.