After Doubt – How to Question Your Faith without Losing It

Award-winning author, professor, and pastor A. J. Swoboda offers a hopeful, practical vision for questioning your faith without losing it. "In this remarkable book, A. J. guides us into a path of stronger faith through the surprising valley of doubt. I resonated with this book at a profound level and think you will too. "-Jon Tyson. , Church of the City New York; author of Beautiful Resistance. "Whether you're in the midst of the isolation and disruption that doubting your faith often leads to or if you're leading those who are, A. J. Swoboda's voice is one of a well-differentiated leader, accurately articulating the struggle many Christians are experiencing and casting a hopeful vision for a way forward together. "-Emily P. Freeman. , author of The Next Right Thing. "A must-read for anyone who has realized that not everything we grew up believing about Christianity is true. With much wisdom and wit, Swoboda navigates us through the turbulent waters of deconstruction-reconstruction. "-Preston Sprinkle. , president of The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender"Swoboda invites us to reimagine what's happening when we doubt the coherence of the Christian faith. What if the disorientation is actually a strange gift, pushing us toward growth and transformation. In this book you'll find wisdom and guidance as you take your questions deeper. "-Tim Mackie. , cofounder of the BibleProject"As a college professor who daily watches the challenges of life and the ideologies of the age batter my students' confidence in their Christian faith, I am eager to put this book into their hands. It offers an informed, insightful, and deeply empathetic conversation about the road home. "-Sandra Richter. , Westmont College"By the time I was done reading this, I was able to embrace my doubts-as-longing as a gift and found myself loving Jesus and his church in a new and deeper way. "-James Bryan Smith. , author of The Good and Beautiful God.