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Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) by Peter Enns

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Pete Enns invites us on the journey of reformatting our brains to run a new program of God.exe.

I'll say upfront this book is excellent if you're the kind of person who has/had questions about God, Church, and Doctrines but when you asked them you were disciplined, scolded, or told you had a weak faith and were questioning or doubting God. This is especially true if you've been more open to science and don't considering critical thinking a sin.

I don't say those things in a condemnatory way, but as a beckoning call to dive into this book and hopefully have your mind set at ease and then greatly blown by the vastness and immensity of a God that would create a world that is ever evolving on astronomical and quantum scales.

Like Pete's other books, this one is engaging and easy to understand even when the topics get to academic topics like theology, quantum physics, and research into near-death experiences. He is a gentle teacher, knowing that many folks engaging with this topic are probably deconstructing or are at a point in their faith journey where the answers to questions no longer seem simple or certain.

I highly recommend this book and believe if more of us came to view God, ourselves, and our connections to one another in the ways presented in this book, those who call themselves Christians would be perceived differently, because we would be different.

I am grateful for the valuable lessons in this book and the humility and vulnerability with which it is shared.