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Out Of A Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey To God. A Broken Mother's Search For Hope. (2011)

by Christopher Yuan(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307729354 (ISBN13: 9780307729354)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

WaterBrook Press

review 1: An amazing story of a son's journey to rock bottom and back, and his parents' unconditional love for him. For me, the most profound part of the story wasn't Christopher's journey into drug addiction, anonymous orgies of bathhouse sex, prison and HIV. Rather, it was his mother's journey of the heart. Angela's quiet humility and her real conviction that she was and is in need of redemption every bit as much as her son is just shattering. Chris's chapter, near the end of the book, on Holy Sexuality is the best manifesto I've ever read on the subject, and more so because it's written by someone who knows these truths from the inside out.
review 2: As a straight Christian who is very involved in conversations around homosexuality/LGBT this book was an interesting re... moread. Not very well-written, but the story is fascinating, rooted in a very strong mother and son relationship. The main thing that really bothered me was that Christopher at no point expresses regret for his drug dealing and the way he blithely dealt death to so many people. This seems to me like a huge oversight in a book about God redeeming his life. After completely screwing up his life with drugs and partying, where is the repentance? The conversion narrative is kind if thin, as is the reasoning at the end for why the Yuans believe the Bible condemns gay relationships. less

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