What Would I Believe If I Didn't Believe Anything?: A Handbook for Spiritual Orphans

This is a guidebook for spiritual orphans that shows how they can "doubt their way home" by embracing their doubts and asking the hard questions as a meaningful path toward genuine faith. Kent Ira Groff helps readers value their own questions and learn to talk about spiritual matters in fresh, nonreligious language. Rather than handing down doctrines "from above," Groff invites readers to look at life "from below," exploring experiences of daily living. He helps the reader And the grace in the grit of everyday life, seeking analogies of faith in Alm and literature, psychology and science, poetry and arts, music and sports.

"Filled with wisdom and practical guidance, rich insights and memorable quotations, it consistently connects to experience and comes complete with Afty reAection exercises."
--Marcus Borg, Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University, and author, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and Reading the Bible Again for the First Time

"Kent Ira Groff's timely and fascinating book shows there is a way out of skepticism, in the various manifestations of grace in ordinary life. Virtually everything offers lessons that can open doors to insight, faith, and experience of the divine Presence. This is a much-needed book, especially in this very dark age."
--Bro. Wayne Teasdale, author, The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions and A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life

"In this book, Kent Ira Groff seeks spiritual nourishment for the religiously disenfranchised. In touching vignettes, the author pries open new doors in his quest to satisfy our deep hunger for meaning-doors that open us to a spiritual realm within ourselves, to which our eyes have been dulled by religion and from which we have for far too long been separated."
--John Shelby Spong, author, Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile Less