Taillights on the Road to Healing

Taillights on the Road to Healing is a deeply personal and universally resonant story of love, trauma, and resilience. Author Kenneth Burr recounts his transformation through transportation in this open-hearted, vulnerable memoir, traveling down the road to healing through faith and relationships. Years after adolescent sexual abuse, Ken grapples with his true identity. Through falling in love during a time of loss, building a family, and discovering the profound impacts of faith through his ministry, Ken learns that every road, no matter how many potholes, leads to an opportunity for new perspectives.

Ken journeys to wholeness and self-acceptance through his Buick woody, rare 1950s convertibles, sexy sports cars, modified classic trucks, vans, and family road trips across America and Europe.

For those who feel flattened by binary systems of faith and sexuality and fearful of choosing the road to new beginnings, Taillights offers air in the tires and a path to hope.

Author: Kenneth Allen Burr
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9798897471492

About the Author
Burr, Kenneth Allen: - Kenneth Burr is the author of Coming Out, Coming Home, Making Room for Gay Spirituality in Therapy, which has been recommended for therapists and ministers struggling to make room for the LGBTQ+ community. He earned a BS in biology (Seattle Pacific College), an MA in theology (Fuller Theological Seminary), and a post-master's MFT certification (Presbyterian Counseling Services). He is also the past president of two mental health organizations. He has spent over twenty-five years as a licensed marriage and family therapist. He loves to spend time with his family, camping, hiking, gardening, and driving classic cars. He and his wife have three children, four grandkids, and a dog who loves a good road trip.

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