Its Not You, Its Everything, Eric Minton
Its Not You, Its Everything, Eric Minton
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It's Not You, It's Everything
What Our Pain Reveals about the Anxious Pursuit of the Good Life

Author: Eric Minton

Narrator: Al Kessel

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022

Synopsis

If we can agree on anything, it's that we are not okay. Our culture is reeling from the ravages of a global pandemic, a precipitous rise in depression and anxiety, suffocating debt, white supremacy, hypercapitalism, and a virulent political animus—to name a few. But what if it's not us? What if it's . . . well, everything? What if trying to conform to a sick culture is actually making us sick?

In It's Not You, It's Everything psychotherapist and former pastor Eric Minton claims that the pernicious melding of capitalism and Christianity means a world of competition, perfection, and scarcity disguised as self-help and self-care. Rather than shaming, silencing, or medicating away our disappointment at not having obtained the happiness we were promised, however, Minton posits a radical alternative. In an impertinent, droll, yet pastoral voice, Minton suggests that our "not-okayness" will require rethinking everything we thought we knew about God, depression, the economy, culture, education, technology, and happiness.

By naming all the ways we're not okay, we move away from fear and shame and toward love, and trust, and trustworthiness. We'll need nothing less than hip-hop, Mr. Rogers, liberation theology, and Jesus to get us there. But on the other side of our pain is a radical "okayness" that might just set us free.

About Eric Minton

Eric Minton is a writer, ordained Baptist minister, and psychotherapist specializing in marriage and family therapy. He has a family therapy practice in Knoxville, Tennessee, and provides coaching and consultation for pastors, nonprofit leaders, businesspeople, and institutions, helping them foster better ways of living, working, and serving together. Minton's work has appeared in Sojourners, Geez Magazine, Baptist News Global, and Red Letter Christians.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on March 27, 2022

I was one of the lucky people who got to read Eric's book before it went to press. And I'm grateful for the sad-funny depths he takes us to. Everything is not okay, because this world is a hot mess. Eric knows that and in his book he takes time to pull back the layers of our common ennui. It's not y......more

Goodreads review by Adam on September 13, 2022

I had really high hopes for this book. I felt like there was a lot that I personally had in common with the author. I had heard that this was a (Southern) Baptist pastor who became a psychotherapist, and I assumed that he was coming at his psychology from a Christian perspective. I was very disappoi......more

Goodreads review by Matt on October 13, 2022

I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting with this book. I knew it was going to take a critical look at capitalism and the larger effects that system has on our lives. But I was maybe also expecting some sort of final conclusion. Some sort of self help program with steps to return to faith, reform......more

Goodreads review by Justin on July 16, 2022

Eric Minton has written a beautiful book about pain—yours, mine, everyone’s—and how we continually live under the unrelenting stress of that pain to our personal and communal detriment. But, there’s good news: We can be okay, even radically okay. Here’s a taste of what Minton, a family therapist and......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on July 31, 2022

Certainly a very thought-provoking and quotable book. Former full-time Baptist minister and current psychotherapist Eric Minton spends the first "5ish" chapters of his book railing against modern society (modern parenting, social media, capitalism/consumerism, modern white evangelical culture) then......more

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