Christopher Yuan hospitalized following fall, can't move his legs: 'Please pray.'
Theologian and author Christopher Yuan, known for his story of leaving homosexuality and pursuing what he calls “holy sexuality,” has been hospitalized following a fall.
Yuan's X account posted Monday afternoon that the author of Holy Sexuality and Out of a Far Country “had a fall at home this morning, and cannot feel/move his legs.”
The account went on to explain that emergency services had transporting him to a local hospital and that he was “currently on the trauma floor and his mother is unable to see him.”
A follow-up tweet from the account explained that the incident involved Yuan falling "upside down on the teeter inversion table with a heavy swing and that heavy machine fell on his chest."
A professor at Moody Bible Institute, in 2011, Yuan published his memoir, Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope, which sold over 100,000 copies.
After coming out to his parents in 1993, Yuan lived a life of sexual promiscuity and drug use and was later arrested for drug dealing. He was sentenced to six years at a federal detention center in Georgia.
While at the detention center, he began to read the Bible, later recounting in a 2021 speech that the Holy Spirit convicted him of his “many idols, including homosexuality” and that he eventually “chose Jesus over homosexuality.”
Yuan graduated from Moody with a bachelor’s degree in 2005, then earned a master’s degree in biblical exegesis from Wheaton College Graduate School in 2007 and a Doctorate of Ministry from Bethel Seminary in 2014.
In 2018, Yuan released a book titled Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story that outlined his concept of “holy sexuality.”
“I define ‘holy sexuality’ — not heterosexuality, not homosexuality, but holy sexuality — as chastity in singleness and faithfulness in marriage,” Yuan told The Christian Post in an interview at the time.
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