After Doubt, A.J. Swoboda
After Doubt, A.J. Swoboda
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After Doubt
How to Question Your Faith without Losing It

Author: A.J. Swoboda

Narrator: Lance Smith

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it?

Award-winning author, pastor, and professor A.J. Swoboda has witnessed many young people wrestle with their core Christian beliefs. Too often, what begins as a set of critical and important questions turns to resentment and faith abandonment. Unfortunately, the church has largely ignored its task of serving people along their journey of questioning. The local church must walk alongside those who are deconstructing their faith and show them how to reconstruct it.

Drawing on his own experience of deconstruction, Swoboda offers tools to help emerging adults navigate their faith in a hostile landscape. Doubt is a part of our natural spiritual journey, says Swoboda, and deconstruction is a legitimate space to encounter the living God.

After Doubt offers a hopeful, practical vision of spiritual formation for those in the process of faith deconstruction and those who serve them. Foreword by pastor and author John Mark Comer.

About A.J. Swoboda

A. J. Swoboda pastors Theophilus Church in Portland, Oregon, and is executive director of the Seminary Stewardship Alliance. Swoboda also teaches biblical studies, theology, and church history at Portland Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary, among others. He is the award-winning author or editor of several books and speaks regularly at conferences, retreats, churches, and seminars.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chad

Once in a blue moon, I will turn the last page of a book, sigh, and say, “Dear God, I wish I’d read this years ago.” The breathtaking prose of the author may invoke that response. Or the simple beauty of the narrative. More often than not, however, the book speaks with brilliant clarity and honest w......more

Goodreads review by Dalton

Dang. I really wanted to love this book. The first time I heard the author speak I was blown away by his cleverness and thoroughness of how he applied standards. Even in this book he lays out a multitude of fresh, wise, and helpful statements and ideas. What I loved most was how he questioned what “......more

Goodreads review by Caity

Man, idk how to rate this one. I read like 40% of it and then skimmed the rest. There were definitely helpful things in it, but overall this felt like a pastor frustrated with/saddened by people leaving the church/faith who has forgotten what it’s actually like to be in the midst of deconstruction. I......more

Goodreads review by Robert

For many people who grow up in church, they experience a time of deconstruction and doubt. That is, they begin to question the received tradition. It often happens during college. The question is, will there be reconstruction. What the author seeks to do is offer a path beyond deconstruction to reco......more