Beloved: Being Gay and Christian

Successful author and pastor Donald Schmidt shares his life journey as a gay man deeply committed to his Christian faith and ministry no matter what. Because it wasnt easy. Although many denominations today welcome gay candidates into ministry, it wasnt like that in the early 1980s when Schmidt entered seminary at McGill University in Montreal. Homophobia was prevalent in the church and made even worse as the terror of a new illness, AIDS, gripped society. With amazing honesty, Schmidt tells about it all the questioning, the fear, the stigma, the anger, the defiance, the heartbreak, the struggle to live his life and ministry with integrity. If the church has come a long way since the 1980s, if it has grown and matured and evolved to value its lgbtq+ members and ministers, it must surely be due to the faith and extraordinary perseverance of those who were the first to come out and lay claim to their inheritance as beloved children of God.