This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail. It is a book about the wonderful mess of being alive in this world, and about the wonderful and terrible things that happen to us in it, and about the dream of God. I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to ... Read morebe.
Frederick Buechner Eat this book. And you will be satisfied. Here is a story of a life told with the clarity, beauty, and honesty of a mountain stream. Those who attend church, those who do not, and everyone in-between will find here a feast, and the satisfaction of an eloquent voice speaking the truth.
Nora Gallagher Here the reader will find an awesome reverence for mystery. This book comes as a refreshing challenge to reconnect with the longings in the depths of the soul. Many will read this book with relief and recognition.
Alan Jones Leaving Church is a canticle of praise to creator and creation. It is a blessed and a blessing text.
Thomas Lynch [This] beautiful, absorbing memoir will bless countless readers, helping us see God in the church, and out in the world, and in the small interstices in between.
Lauren Winner
The Dallas Morning News
A finely crafted memoir . . . a rich evocation of [a] lifelong love affair with God.
Publishers Weekly
This is an astonishing book. . . . In a word, she is the best there is.
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