I loved this book. The writer was so honest about his experience. His love for God and others oozes out the book and his painful journey of reconciling his faith and sexuality. He is truly a peace maker.

Having also had same sex attraction my liberation came from defining myself by who I am in Christ and looking to Him for my identity and completeness I found transformation. This book unfortunately focusses the other way round: the author defines himself as "gay" (as if this is an unchangeable constant) and then tries to fit God around that. Both me and my wife's sexuality were a reaction to sexual abuse in our childhood and poor same sex relationships with our parents. And we have a God who can bring healing. There are better books out there: "Slaves, women and homosexuals" for the best exposition of the biblical text. "Walking with gay friends" for compassion Anything by Leanne Payne for prayer for restoring sexuality. And NARTH.org for a secular pyschological views points which haven't been seduced into the sexuality is fixed worldview.

Un-Conditional is a beautiful and honourable book with an honesty and gentle insight at its heart and a passion for compassion and understanding shining through. This is not a book of argument or rhetoric, but a book of apologia that works more for the lack of such heated argument. It moves one and tries to open the discussion up to the human realiaties and suffering. It invites us to understand and consider the reality away from the academic, the reality of the persons dealing with the issues—the gay person yes, but also their family, their friends, their church. Tt asks us to look at this issue with the eyes of the gospel, with the eyes of Jesus—you know that man that did not judge the adulteress but instead had compassion for her. Perhaps one of the most important bits of the book is the discussion around the realisation that the word "gay" has connotations that are at odds sometimes between those using it. For some gay immediately means sex, for some not. Sadly, for all the discussion becomes bogged down at this point, until we work past the word and instead see and deal with the person, each of whom is an individual and not a "type". Of all the books I have read on this subject, I think I would say that this is truly the most pastoral of them all and there is a real need and place for this book within our churches and within the hands of our congregations, and for those who are Gay and Christian.