My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion

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In this frank, funny, and often challenging memoir about life inand out of the church, twenty-something Patton Dodd reveals hisquest for an authentic experience of God. On his journey heattempts to pinpoint and justify his belief in God, first with thefervent absolutes that characterize a new believer’s faithbut then with a growing awareness of the cultural complexities thatdefine his faith and encompass his understanding ofChristianity. When a spiritual awakening in his last year of high schoolwrenches Dodd out of his rebellious party days, he embarks on aquest for God. He exchanges pot smoking for worship dancing, givesup MTV for Christian pop, and enrolls at a Christian university.Soon, however, he finds himself ill at ease with the otherChristians around him and with the cloying superficiality of theChristian subculture. Dodd tells his story in contradictoryterms—conversion and confusion, acceptance and rejection,spiritual highs and psychological lows. With painstaking honesty,he tries to negotiate a relationship with his faith apart from thecultural trappings that often clothe it. Dodd’s moving story paints a nuanced and multilayeredportrait of an earnest quest for God: the hunger for genuine faith,the bleak encounters with doubt, and the consuming questions thatchallenge the intellect and the soul. This is a story that willresonate with the emerging generation of young adults attempting tobreak new ground within their own faith tradition.

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