Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey

4.47 AVERAGE

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leah_in_the_library's review

5.0
challenging hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
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heyitsnay's review against another edition

1.0
hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
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marlisenicole's review against another edition

4.5
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amhudgins's review

4.0
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melissakwilcox's review

3.5
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tinylittlehobbit's review

4.75
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This book was honestly just what I needed right now.  It felt like a warm reassuring hug.  I also felt Bessey's advice could be helpful for lots of big upheavals, not just running screaming from American evangelicalism.

ericalpin's review

5.0
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leahbrown's review

5.0
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Incredible resource of hope and invitation for anyone reconstructing their faith. Sarah Bessey put words to the undifferentiated thoughts and hurt I had been grappling with for the last few years. She offers a safe space to re-discover wonder, to move toward something after running away from modern evangelical church. She validated that struggles and feelings of betrayal, she normalized the anger, and she invited me into moving into a more beautiful, accepting, integrated faith, a faith not founded upon fear (of hell, of ostracism, of being another line on a prayer list if I came to a different conclusion than someone else), but on the loving, peacemaking Jesus who is far bigger and far more transcendent than the distilled down version I was handed in Sunday school. 
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wheeldeanna's review

4.0
I’m not the target audience probably for this book. There were a few theological things that she believes that I don’t necessarily align with. By the grace of God I haven’t lost faith in God, but my faith has definitely ebbed and flowed and so if you are someone who is deconstructing or looking for Jesus but don’t feel like you belong in a church, I think this book would be a balm to your soul. If it draws you nearer to Christ, know that he is always with you, and that everything is super complex. Chapters 7 and 11 stood out the most to me.

thislibrarianisreading's review

5.0
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