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    Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt
    Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt
    Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt
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    Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt

    Written by Andrea Palpant Dilley and Jerry Sittser, author of the bestselling A Grace Disguised

    Narrated by Andrea Palpant Dilley

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    At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refugein the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred.

    In this deeply personal memoir, Andrea navigates the doubts that plague believers and skeptics alike: Why does a good God allow suffering? Why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved? And why does the church seem so dysfunctional?

    Yet amid her skepticism, she begins to ask new questions: Could doubting be a form of faith? Might our doubts be a longing for God that leads to a faith we can ultimately live with?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateFeb 21, 2012
    ISBN9780310587071
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    Andrea Palpant Dilley

    Andrea Palpant Dilley grew up in Kenya as the daughter of Quaker missionaries and spent the rest of her childhood in the Pacific Northwest. Her work as a documentary producer has aired nationally on American Public Television. Her work as a writer has been published in Geez, Utne Reader and the anthology Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical, as well as online with CNN, The Huffington Post, and Christianity Today. Her memoir, Faith and Other Flat Tires: Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt, tells the story of her faith journey. Andrea lives with her husband and their two daughters in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.andreapalpantdilley.com  

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    • 4/5
      In this autobiography in the form of a memoir Andrea Dilley explores her road to faith in a very honest and thought provoking way. She uses the book Pilgrim's Progress as a sort of outline for her own journey. This book follows her as she leaves the church, wrestles with her faith in God and who she is, and eventually finds her way home again. I enjoyed reading about her life and struggles. Many of her thoughts rang true with my own experiences. I also like that she didn't sugar coat her failings and insecurities. This isn't an intricately written work of literature, but it is a good, quick read that makes you think a little. I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever struggled with their faith, and even to older teens who may be approaching their adulthood with a few doubts.