Straight to Hell - Wilson, John Wesley
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John was a pastor, a husband, and a father-until the secret he'd 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 couldn't abandon and a truth he couldn't 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…mehr

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John was a pastor, a husband, and a father-until the secret he'd 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 couldn't abandon and a truth he couldn't 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 Wilson's 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 he'd 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 Hell is a memoir of collapse and reconstruction-from religious indoctrination to spiritual authenticity, from shame to self-acceptance, from exile to homecoming. It's a reckoning with American Evangelicalism and the systems that demand silence in exchange for belonging. And it's 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, Straight to Hell speaks to anyone who's had to lose their world to find themselves. It's 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 that's been waiting.
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John Wesley Wilson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and former Evangelical pastor whose life journey bridges faith, identity, and healing. Raised in poverty and abuse in the deep South, he found early refuge in a small Pentecostal church-a place that offered belonging and safety. But when his sexual orientation emerged at age twelve, he found himself caught between an indispensable faith and his unchangeable truth.Clinging to the belief that God would heal him if he remained faithful, John married his high school sweetheart, became a father, and rose to the pulpit-preaching a gospel that condemned the very core of who he was.After decades of repression, his internal world began to collapse-culminating in the moment he removed his straight brother from life support so he could die of AIDS. That breaking point became the beginning of his transformation.Today, John draws on both his psychological training and lived experience to help others heal from religious trauma, identity shame, and spiritual abuse. His memoir, Straight to Hell, is a raw and compassionate exploration of what happens when faith and truth collide-and how wholeness begins the moment we stop running from ourselves.He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he maintains a private therapy practice and continues to write and speak at the intersection of faith, sexuality, and psychological healing.