cowboylane 's review for:

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller

4.0

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i love donald miller’s writing, and i was excited by the subtitle, “nonreligious thoughts on christian spirituality.” that i think was a little misleading. this book is very religious. i liked his candid questioning of faith and of institutional christianity, how he has come to see spirituality as a mystical and wholly unique experience to everyone who feels it. that being said, it was still rather jesus-y for me. i’m not sure i know how to explain it. it wasn’t preachy, but i didn’t feel like it was wholly open either. he talks about how one of the things he hates about christianity is how it looks down on everyone else, on all other religions. and yet, there was still a sort of condescending tone throughout of “i’ve come to love jesus, and you can too!” but still. all in all, i thought it was lovely.