The Importance of Support and Acceptance

I want to share a personal story that highlights the importance of finding support, embracing our differences, and loving ourselves and others. In my second book, Opening Up, I talked about a boy named Wil, whom I met while moving to a new town. Wil was a kid who loved music and was constantly moving his fingers as strings on a guitar, beating air drums…
Published on June 13, 2023 07:32
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I am an ordinary guy with extraordinary stories about the messy, unpredictable path one's faith can follow. I grew up in a small town in Texas, where I was raised Catholic while simultaneously watchin
I am an ordinary guy with extraordinary stories about the messy, unpredictable path one's faith can follow. I grew up in a small town in Texas, where I was raised Catholic while simultaneously watching my father struggle with addiction. While religion was always a part of my life, his journey was full of questions, doubts, answers, and moments of complete humbleness to complete frustration. My memoirs are first-hand accounts of my experiences in the world where I have grappled with faith, a crisis of faith, race, social injustice, and Internet pornography dependences. As I reflect on these issues as a husband, father, and Christian, I deconstruct my faith and learn what it's like to love all people, including yourself. And while I am not an ordained minister, and I didn't go to seminary college or nor do I have a theology degree, I was ordained to assist those who may not the American evangelical churches' requirements and standards.
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