Losing Faith In Faith

Author : Dan Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030237428

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Losing Faith in Faith by Dan Barker Pdf

Losing Faith in Faith records Dan Barker's dramatic journey from devout soul-winner to one of America's most prominent freethinkers.Following his "calling" at age 15, Dan Barker worked as a missionary, ordained minister, associate pastor, touring evangelist, Christian songwriter, performer and record producer. After preaching for 19 years, Barker "lost faith in faith." Throwing out the bath water, he discovered: "There is no baby there!"Today Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., (www.ffrf.org) frequently represents freethought on the talkshow circuit and at personal appearances, concerts, and debates around the country, turning his experience as a former minister into ammunition against superstition and irrationality.In Losing Faith in Faith, Barker explains why he left the ministry. He also offers a definitive, compelling analysis of why he rejects belief in a god and the claims of religion. He explores the fallacies, inconsistencies, and harm of Christian doctrine and theistic dogma. In its place, he issues an appealing and compassionate invocation of freethought, reason, and humanism.Losing Faith in Faith is both a challenge to believers and an arsenal for skeptics.

Author : Dan Barker
Publisher : Freedom from Religion Foundation
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015053136118

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Losing Faith in Faith by Dan Barker Pdf

Dan Barker's dramatic journey from devout soul-winner to one of America's most prominent freethinkers. After 19 years of evangelical preaching -- ordained minister, associate pastorship, missionary to Mexico, cross-country evangelism, Christian songwriter -- Dan Barker threw out the bathwater and found "there is no baby there."A challenge to believers and an arsenal for skeptics.

Author : Denise Jaden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416996702

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Losing Faith by Denise Jaden Pdf

A terrible secret. A terrible fate. When Brie's sister, Faith, dies suddenly, Brie's world falls apart. As she goes through the bizarre and devastating process of mourning the sister she never understood and barely even liked, everything in her life seems to spiral farther and farther off course. Her parents are a mess, her friends don’t know how to treat her, and her perfect boyfriend suddenly seems anything but. As Brie settles into her new normal, she encounters more questions than closure: Certain facts about the way Faith died just don't line up. Brie soon uncovers a dark and twisted secret about Faith’s final night...a secret that puts her own life in danger.

Author : Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830853373

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Blessed Are the Nones by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook Pdf

Can the Christian life be lived alone? When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left "spiritually single"—struggling to live the Christian life on her own, taking her kids to church by herself, and wrestling with her own questions and doubts. In this memoir, Kielsmeier-Cook tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found community in an unexpected place: an order of Catholic nuns in her neighborhood. As she spent time with them and learned about female Catholic saints, she began to see that she was not "spiritually single" after all—and that no one really is.

Author : David Robert Anderson
Publisher : Convergent
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Expectation (Psychology)
ISBN : 0307731200

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Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul by David Robert Anderson Pdf

Argues that one can retain their faith, even when distancing oneself from the traditional methods of worship through the organized church, and helps readers identify six life-tested passages that lead through changes in faith towards authentic renewal.

Author : William Lobdell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061877339

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Losing My Religion by William Lobdell Pdf

William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a veteran journalist—noticed that religion wasn't covered well in the mainstream media, and he prayed for the Lord to put him on the religion beat at a major newspaper. In 1998, his prayers were answered when the Los Angeles Times asked him to write about faith. Yet what happened over the next eight years was a roller-coaster of inspiration, confusion, doubt, and soul-searching as his reporting and experiences slowly chipped away at his faith. While reporting on hundreds of stories, he witnessed a disturbing gap between the tenets of various religions and the behaviors of the faithful and their leaders. He investigated religious institutions that acted less ethically than corrupt Wall St. firms. He found few differences between the morals of Christians and atheists. As this evidence piled up, he started to fear that God didn't exist. He explored every doubt, every question—until, finally, his faith collapsed. After the paper agreed to reassign him, he wrote a personal essay in the summer of 2007 that became an international sensation for its honest exploration of doubt. Losing My Religion is a book about life's deepest questions that speaks to everyone: Lobdell understands the longings and satisfactions of the faithful, as well as the unrelenting power of doubt. How he faced that power, and wrestled with it, is must reading for people of faith and nonbelievers alike.

Author : Frank Pittman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0399518835

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Man Enough by Frank Pittman Pdf

How does a boy learn to be a man? A man learns masculinity primarily from his father. But generations of boys who grow up without caring fathers or male mentors to emulate are left to guess what "men" are really like. They rely on cultural icons--larger-than-life images--as models of masculinity. As a result, they grow up mirroring overblown myths of manhood. Obsessed with being "man enough," they become philanderers, controllers, and competitors--constantly overcompensating for their loss of a true role model, yet sorely unprepared for family life. In Man Enough, psychiatrist and family therapist Frank Pittman explores what it is like to grow up male today. With great poignancy, humor, and candor, he weaves together case studies from his practice, examples from literature and films, plus personal vignettes from his own experiences as a father to examine these hyper-masculine men and to illustrate how they developed and how they can change. Dr. Pittman asserts that men can move past proving their masculinity and start practicing it by striving with the other guys rather than against them, achieving equality and intimacy with their mates--and by fathering. A man raises himself as he raises children and learns to understand and forgive his parents as he becomes one. An important book for men and women, Man Enough offers a new approach to issues of commitment, caring and control and creates a positive model for the fathers of tomorrow's men.

Author : Scot McKnight,Hauna Ondrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Apostasy
ISBN : IND:30000122859907

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Finding Faith, Losing Faith by Scot McKnight,Hauna Ondrey Pdf

However, the book's sensitive detailing of the stories themselves makes conversion more than a theoretical occurrence; it makes the immediacy, and often the difficulty, of conversion both real and moving.

Author : Ivan Mesa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999284371

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Before You Lose Your Faith by Ivan Mesa Pdf

Author : Andy Frost
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781850789468

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Losing Faith by Andy Frost Pdf

There will always be people who lose faith. But how do we reconnect with those who have walked away? With his new book Losing Faith: those who have walked away, Andy Frost, Director of Share Jesus International, looks at those who have walked away from the church or have struggled with their faith and offers compassionate and practical advice on how we can help them. Michael Frost, author of Re:Jesus and Exiles praised Andy's book saying: When so much preaching by the Church today is done to the converted, Andy Frost's book invites us to listen to those who have lost faith, to validate their questions and concerns and to acknowledge we have something to learn from these so-called backsliders. Losing Faith is a compassionate, generous, full-blooded call for the church to wake up to the wisdom of the lapsed. Andy's passion for reconnecting the church with society and culture doesn't stop here. Along with numerous projects he will also be embarking on a tour with the Share Jesus International team and Dave Bilbrough. The 'Rediscovering Faith Autumn Tour', is based on his new book and will consist of story, challenge and music, suitable for adults and young people; the faithful and the doubtful.

Author : Kelsey McKinney
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063020276

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God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney Pdf

"Read it for twists on twists, meditations on faith, and a deeply thoughtful treatment of an evangelical community." — Glamour, Beach Reads That Are Like Summer in a Book “A thoughtful and candid meditation on faith, family, and forgiveness . . . fabulous.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Recommended by Good Housekeeping, Elle, Parade, Real Simple, Glamour,Refinery29,Bustle, Oprah Daily, The Millions, Shondaland, Yahoo!, Literary Hub, and more! A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community—a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by a viral sermon on purity co-written with his eldest daughter, Abigail, Luke is the prototype of a modern preacher: tall, handsome, a spellbinding speaker. But his younger daughter Caroline has begun to notice the cracks in their comfortable life. She is certain that her perfect, pristine sister is about to marry the wrong man—and Caroline has slid into sin with a boy she’s known her entire life, wondering why God would care so much about her virginity anyway. When it comes to light, five weeks before Abigail’s wedding, that Luke has been lying to his family, the entire Nolan clan falls into a tailspin. Caroline seizes the opportunity to be alone with her sister. The two girls flee to the ranch they inherited from their maternal grandmother, far removed from the embarrassing drama of their parents and the prying eyes of the community. But with the date of Abigail’s wedding fast approaching, the sisters will have to make a hard decision about which familial bonds are worth protecting. An intimate coming-of-age story and a modern woman’s read, God Spare the Girls lays bare the rabid love of sisterhood and asks what we owe our communities, our families, and ourselves. “A deeply felt book about love — love for family and community, for people who sustain you and people who disappoint you. And love for God, too, which Kelsey McKinney writes about with humane and incisive frankness.”—Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over “The accomplishment of this canny novel is in positing coming of age itself as a loss of faith—not only in the church, but in our parents, our family, and the world as we thought we understood it.” — Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind and Rich and Pretty

Author : Phil Zuckerman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0415941261

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Invitation to the Sociology of Religion by Phil Zuckerman Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134131921

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Introducing Anthropology of Religion by Jack David Eller Pdf

This lively and readable survey introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of contemporary world religions. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers all of the traditional topics of anthropology of religion, including definitions and theories, beliefs, symbols and language, and ritual and myth, and combines analytic and conceptual discussion with up-to-date ethnography and theory. Eller includes copious examples from religions around the world – both familiar and unfamiliar – and two mini-case studies in each chapter. He also explores classic and contemporary anthropological contributions to important but often overlooked issues such as violence and fundamentalism, morality, secularization, religion in America, and new religious movements. Introducing Anthropology of Religion demonstrates that anthropology is both relevant and essential for understanding the world we inhabit today.

Author : John Pavlovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0578682508

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Stuff That Needs To Be Said by John Pavlovitz Pdf

Over the past few years, John Pavlovitz's blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has become a virtual hub for millions of people from all over the world, drawn there by his clear, compelling words on compassion, equity, love, and justice. This expansive, like-hearted community transcends race, orientation, gender, religious tradition, political affiliation, and nation of origin--and finds its affinity in the deeper place of our shared humanity, which is the True North of his writing. This collection lovingly pulls together some of John's most widely-read and most beloved essays on faith, politics, grief, and the elemental parts of being human. It is an encouraging, inspiring, challenging storehouse of "stuff that needs to be said."

Author : Mike McHargue
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101906040

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Finding God in the Waves by Mike McHargue Pdf

"'Science Mike' draws on his personal experience to tell the unlikely story of how science led him back to faith. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray, how fundamentalism affects the psyche, and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us"--Dust jacket flap.