FOREWORD
FOREWORDBy The Reverend Reid D. Farrell, Jr.
“O Lord, you have taught us that without love, whatever we do is worth nothing.”
~ The Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, 1979 edition
After 40 years’ experience as an ordained Episcopal priest who also happens to be a gay man, I have known any number of Spencer Hills and Donald Raineys—the two main characters in For Love Of God—and I can tell you that their struggles are very real and in earnest. Robin Reardon has captured them incredibly well: their thoughts and feelings, their conflicts, and their confusion.
For Love Of GodHaving lived through the late nineteen seventies and early eighties, when the Episcopal Church was beginning to establish its position on the ordination of gay people, I understand and identify with both of Rear
