sgibsonneve 's review for:

Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

4.0

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I loved this book. I cannot tell you how much I loved this book. When I began it, the book didn't grab me the way that Blue Like Jazz did but once I got going, I found myself repeated wanting to yell, "Yes! Amen!" I don't want to give too much away but the chapter on the alien (I know, it sounds odd), literally made me feel sick because it so precisely summarized how we humans view each other and define ourselves by comparing to others who are "lesser" than ourselves. His thesis that Christianity is a relational faith and that by reducing it to a series of propositions makes it lose its beauty is so profoundly accurate. It made me feel as if I am not somehow a lesser Christian because I have questions and struggle with some things. Again, his idea that to read the Bible as a list of rules is to reduce it to a place where it is full of the inconsistencies that stump so many people is also such an accurate way of describing the way that I feel.
Is Donald Miller right? I don't know but he has found a way to articulate feelings that I have had for years in a better way than I ever could. If you are searching or if you believe and yet struggle with some of the "absolutes" as presented by white, well-to-do, politically conservative Christians, this is the book for you.