By Patton Dodd

During this frank, humorous, and infrequently hard memoir approximately existence out and in of the church, twenty-something Patton Dodd finds his quest for an real event of God. On his trip he makes an attempt to pinpoint and justify his trust in God, first with the fervent absolutes that symbolize a brand new believer’s religion yet then with a growing to be know-how of the cultural complexities that outline his religion and surround his realizing of Christianity. 

When a non secular awakening in his final 12 months of highschool wrenches Dodd out of his rebellious celebration days, he embarks on a quest for God. He exchanges pot smoking for worship dancing, provides up MTV for Christian pop, and enrolls at a Christian college. quickly, notwithstanding, he reveals himself sick relaxed with the opposite Christians round him and with the cloying superficiality of the Christian culture. Dodd tells his tale in contradictory terms—conversion and confusion, popularity and rejection, religious highs and mental lows. With painstaking honesty, he attempts to barter a courting together with his religion except the cultural trappings that regularly dress it. 

Dodd’s relocating tale paints a nuanced and multilayered portrait of an earnest quest for God: the starvation for actual religion, the awful encounters with doubt, and the eating questions that problem the mind and the soul. this can be a tale that would resonate with the rising new release of teens trying to holiday new flooring inside their very own religion tradition.