Omg

The plot thickens--in novels and our lives--forcing us from the fairy tale into a bewildering, even heartbreaking narrative. We look at the god we're holding, and find it too fragile, too brittle to meet reality. Cling tighter? Move on godless? In fact, rejecting a god image (or as C.S. Lewis puts it, allowing God to smash our limited god) opens space for deeper faith in the midst of painful life experience. In OMG, I invite readers to look over my shoulder as I trace my god growth, beginning with a capricious childhood god. The loving savior who embraced me when I was eighteen, followed me into strict fundamentalism, while the god I met in an Anglican seminary shocked me by caring more about poverty than a seven-day creation, but then called me to a South Africa tipping toward revolution. An interweaving of narrative theology and creative nonfiction, OMG invites readers to grow into deeper faith, retelling their stories in the light of the biblical one, dropping inadequate gods to grasp a mysterious, awesome one.