This Changes Everything: A Path to Finding Faith, Hope and Joy in Challenging Times

“May we find the resiliency, courage and that true joy for which we were made as we continue on our way”  –  Rev. Edward Dufresne

This Changes Everything, the late Rev. Dr. Edward Dufresne’s moving and brave chronicle of his journey with cancer is available for holiday gift-giving on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. This journal of daily thoughts and reflections accompanied by full color photographs provides readers with inspiring messages and insights into finding hope and joy even in life’s most challenging times.

This Changes Everything is a testament to Dufresne’s faith, candor and courage which sustained him throughout many challenges and setbacks. Published in keeping with his final wishes, he hoped sharing his journey might help others navigate through the layers and complications of serious illness and the challenges life brings, while providing a path to finding faith, hope and joy in order to live our best lives.

About the author: A Lutheran pastor for over 40 years, Edward Dufresne received his M. Div. And S.T.M. degrees from Yale Divinity School, where he studied with Henri Nouwen and wrote Partnership: Marriage and the Committed Life (Paulist Press, 1975), which received a National Religious Book Award. Ordained in 1975 by the Lutheran Church, he taught at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and served many parishes both as a Lutheran pastor and as a licensed Episcopal priest. He specialized in consulting with congregations in crisis and conflict.