Cross Purposes
Author | : Bob Welch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 0977230643 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780977230648 |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: IN 2016, BOB WELCH--that rare combination of newspaper columnist and Christian--prayed a prayer that he believes changed his life. Over the next five years, he discovered he'd been quietly complicit in allowing the rage of far-right politics to distort the faith of evangelicals, including his own. During a 2020 sailboat trip to spread his mother's ashes, Welch commits to writing a book that he knows may rankle his fellow believers, but he can't stay silent. Amid hot-button issues such as Trump, COVID, and race, he dares to ply the shores of uncertainty in an attempt to answer a question theologian Henri Nouwen so eloquently asked: "To whom do I belong? To God or to the world?"