When the church let go, God held on.

Defiant Faith is a story of wrestling with God, shame, belonging, and grace-a lyrical memoir tracing one gay man's search for the divine in the ruins of religion.

Raised in the fervor of Pentecostal fire, T. W. Hundley learned that holiness was something to earn and love was something to fear. But when faith turned against him for the truth of who he was, the boy who once played piano in church found himself silenced by the very people who taught him to sing.

This is the story of what came next: exile, heartbreak, and the slow miracle of rediscovering God beyond the walls that tried to contain Him. In prose that reads like both confession and hymn, Hundley bears witness to a love that refuses to quit-even when belief itself falters.

For anyone who's ever been told their faith no longer fits, Defiant Faith is proof that grace still finds its way through the cracks-and that the light never truly goes out.