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STRAIGHT TO HELL IBD

LAZARUS HOUSE PRESS
06 / 2025
9798999389336
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John was a pastor, a husband, and a father-until the secret heâÇÖd spent a lifetime suppressing came crashing to the surface.Raised in poverty and shaped by abuse, Wilson found refuge in the Pentecostal church, where holiness demanded obedience and salvation required surrender. But when his sexual orientation emerged at age twelve, he was thrust into an impossible war between a faith he couldnâÇÖt abandon and a truth he couldnâÇÖt change.Believing that God would heal him if he stayed faithful, he married young, became a father, and rose to the pulpit-preaching a gospel that condemned the very core of who he was. A decade later, after removing his beloved brother from life support so he could die of AIDS, the foundation of WilsonâÇÖs carefully constructed life collapsed.The faith that once anchored him became a prison of shame and self-erasure. Telling his wife the truth shattered everything. He lost his marriage, his ministry, and the identity heâÇÖd spent a lifetime constructing. Cast out by the church he once served, he fled-and begged God to let him die.But death never came. Instead, he began the slow, excruciating work of becoming who he truly was.Straight to Helláis a memoir of collapse and reconstruction-from religious indoctrination to spiritual authenticity, from shame to self-acceptance, from exile to homecoming. ItâÇÖs a reckoning with American Evangelicalism and the systems that demand silence in exchange for belonging. And itâÇÖs a love story-of a father reclaiming his daughters, of a man discovering grace outside the church, and of finally being loved without pretense.Both harrowing and redemptive,áStraight to Helláspeaks to anyone whoâÇÖs had to lose their world to find themselves. ItâÇÖs a raw, compassionate exploration of what happens when faith and truth collide-and what it means to stop running from yourself and step into the life thatâÇÖs been waiting.

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29,46