Finding Your Way Home

Xolani xk Kacela, Ph.D. is the author of Finding Your Way Home. He has authored several books, including It's Your World and Get A Hold of Yourself. His two upcoming books are Hard Things and The Black UU Lives Survival Guide. He has published many articles on faith, theology, and other contemporary subjects. He serves as Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Before that, he served UU congregations in Dallas, TX and Durham, NC. He worked as a hospice chaplain for many years prior to parish ministry.He is a chaplain in the New Mexico Air National Guard, in Albuquerque, NM. He served with the District of Columbia National Guard at Joint Base Andrews and worked at U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. He began his military career with the Texas Air National Guard in Ft. Worth, TX. He has deployed four times, including service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.Kacela has four earned degrees, including his doctorate in pastoral theology and pastoral counseling from Texas Christian University and undergraduate degree from Morehouse College. He lives with his wife, Tamara, in Las Cruces, NM. They enjoy fishing, hunting, and traveling together.