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  Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt



 
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By: Dilley, Andrea Palpant
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At thirteen, Andrea Dilley started asking 'mean questions' about God. At twenty-one, she stripped the Christian fish off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church, running into the arms of men who failed to love her and to friends who pushed the boundaries of all she once held sacred. In this deeply personal memoir, Andrea navigates the universal doubts that plague nearly every believer and every skeptic alike: Doesn't religion diminish God? Why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved? Yet amid her skepticism, she begins to ask new questions: Could doubting be a form of faith? Might our doubts be a longing for God that leads to a faith we can ultimately live with? A story of crisis and redemption told with humor and refreshing candor, Faith and Other Flat Tires speaks to anyone driven to the margins of belief by skepticism and doubt.


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For Thinkers Only September 14, 2012
Reviewer: Anonymous Person from Edmonton  
This very philisophical young author writes about her struggle with faith. She grew up in Africa where she saw a lot of suffering and eventually leaves the church because she finds it hard to believe in a God who would allow suffering. I identified a little bit with her, because I have had my own doubts over the years. It was a little hard to read and be faced with those same questions all over again. Her questions shake you a bit.
But it's a good read. The snapshots of her life she gives the reader are interesting and sometimes comical. She makes TONS of references to poetry and other classic literature I've never heard of, but wish I had! She doesn't answer many of the questions she asks, but comes to the conclusion that we can't just look at suffering and say there is no God. We also have to look at all the good there is, and that there is a God because of that.

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