Gilead

WHY I'M READING THIS

Recommended by three different people within the same month, which I've learned to treat as a kind of instruction rather than a coincidence.

WHAT I UNDERLINED

“"I don't want to be more urgent about it than the facts warrant, but I don't want to be less urgent either."”

WHAT I THINK

It's the gentlest book I've ever read about faith, and the most convincing, precisely because it never tries to convince you of anything. It just lets a good man think out loud.

QUESTIONS IT LEFT ME WITH

Can a book actually change what you believe, or only how carefully you hold it?

WHERE IT LED ME

Directly, in ways I can trace line by line, the essay 'Faith After the Questions Begin.'