The Road Away from God, Jonathan Martin
The Road Away from God, Jonathan Martin
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The Road Away from God
How Love Finds Us Even As We Walk Away

Author: Jonathan Martin

Narrator: Jonathan Martin

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2022

Synopsis

It's no easy journey disentangling the good news of the gospel from the toxic theologies that have rendered Jesus unrecognizable. It's no wonder the church has sent many walking.

In The Road Away from God, Jonathan Martin reimagines Luke's story of two disillusioned disciples walking the Emmaus road away from the holy city where they had watched their hope die a gruesome death right before their eyes.

For anyone who is feeling their faith unravel, reckoning with religious trauma, or walking the long road of deconstruction, Martin speaks compassionate hope into the journey of today's disillusioned disciples, revealing that the resurrected Christ is profoundly present with them—even on what seems to be the road away from God.

With "a pastor's heart and poet's touch," as Rachel Held Evans once wrote of Martin, this is a book to help you feel seen in your spiritual journey and all its complexities, and to find resurrection even where you least expect it.

About Jonathan Martin

Jonathan Martin is a senior political columnist for POLITICO. A native of Arlington, Virginia, Martin is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh

The past half-decade, and probably longer, has seen an increasing number of people raised in the church pack their bags and leave. The reasons are multifaceted but the result is the same. Many are leaving the communities they’ve been a part of and aren’t sure what their next step is. Using the story......more

Goodreads review by Josh

Words do not seem to do justice to the profound impact this book has had on me. I started it many months ago and I have put it down and picked up more times than I can count. And every time I picked it back up, it seemed to speak to the very the thing that I was at that moment finally ready to hear.......more

Goodreads review by Jes

I’ve been waiting for this book since I closed the last page of Surviving a Shipwreck. For a Pentecostal / COG kid who had to leave the spiritual home of my youth - these words are a cool glass of sweet tea for my heart. This book couldn’t be more spot on for where my community finds itself. It’s see......more

Goodreads review by Mark

First things first: To scroll past this title and think you understood what this book is about is to be greatly deceived. This book has been like a cup of cool, sparkling water on a hot day for me—very refreshing and more than a bit restorative. Jonathan Martin’s circumspect walk through the powerfu......more

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