Life after God
Finding Faith When You Can't Believe Anymore

Westminster John Knox Press invited me to read and review an advance reader copy of this book. I wasn't sure this was the book for me, to be honest, because of the title. I am not post-God or post-Christian. It seemed like maybe the book was meant for those who don't believe in God anymore or who ha......more

Life After God shows you how to make Christianity personal and antifragile. For many of us, the formal religion we’ve experienced has been delivered top-down, with black-and-white explanations given for even the most unknowable topics. Permission to explore our nagging questions is rare, where quest......more

Written very much in the style of a Rob Bell book - like Nooma or Velvet Elvis - with short sentences and paragraphs that read more like a prose poem or speaker notes in a casual, sans serif, font. This book is not really for people who don't believe in God anymore so much as those who want to belie......more

Many folks have a difficult time believing/embracing traditional Christian understandings of God and the life of faith. Through the ages, the received faith has been encrusted with numerous cultural and philosophical elements. People wish for something purer, perhaps more in line with the original m......more

As the spiritual climate in the West becomes more secular and anti-establishment, the Church at large is entering a Post-Christian era. With declining membership in churches and an ever-increasing number of people who call themselves NONES, it is becoming more difficult to see what faith and belief......more