Washed and Waiting [antikvár]

FOREWORD T ''his is a young man's book. It has youthful conviction. The Wes who wrote this book has studied Scripture and done his best to be as responsible to it as his then-current level of education allowed. You can feel in this book the trained and supple will surrendering to the inescapable conclusion of the mind, like an athlete preparing for Olympic training. This will be hard, you hear, but if you want to run the race, this is what you have to do. But it also has youthful loneliness. This is loneliness born from isolation. It's the kind of loneliness that provokes deep self-doubt. It's the loneliness of the closet—you can hear how difficult it has been to admit the truth about his longings and how recently he has begun to feel some degree of comfort with that admission. You can feel in this book how important it was to Wes to find out there were other people like him. Wes found some of those people—same-sex-attracted Christians who lived out their convictions in celibacy—and told some of their stories in this book. But you can still hear the echoes in that room—a room with a few cherished, dog-eared, and underlined books, but painfully few living companions. 11