Letting Go of True Belief, 2023

In this deeply reflective and compassionate story, a pastor walks beside his dying friend, David, a gay man battling AIDS, while also confronting the fragile, complicated nature of his own faith. Through intimate conversations, memories, and moments of shared doubt, the story explores what it means to believe when certainty no longer feels possible.

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Reviews

An intelligent, beautifully written narrative about the immediate and generational effects of a tragedy. Based on a true story, Stuart follows the lives of those affected, revealing the powerful, spiritual, and physical impact as a result. The characters are so well developed that it is impossible not to be personally drawn to them.
Al Heller

Letting Go of True Belief

“David died as separate from his parents as the day they dropped him off in the city as a teenager. Moral insistence, so ingrained in them, polluted every neuron of their brains. They created in their minds and hearts hymns of ritualized brutality. Having a fling with “messiahood” will do that to you. Peter and Nora Pryn imagined only a fiery finish for their son and appeared to look forward to it.”

R. KEITH STUART

LETTING GO OF TRUE BELIEF

R. KEITH STUART

LETTING GO OF TRUE BELIEF

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