A Faith Book about Spiritual Doubt

It's Easter Monday and today, we're exploring a faith book about  how to handle doubt as a woman of faith...

Doubt like Thomas's can be a positive thing, especially if it brings us closer to God. Doubt can help shape our faith. - Sheryl Giesbrecht Turner

I think what I love most about this book is her effort to normalize doubt, as part of the Christian experience.

I used to feel guilty about my own doubt, seeing it as a flaw and a weakness. I thought that if I were a better Christian, I would have certainty, instead.

But in the book, the author suggests that doubt can actually help us create a closer relationship with God. That it can become a passageway both to deeper trust and to certainty.

 I invite you to grow comfortable with doubting.
- Sheryl Griesbrecht Turner

What about You?

 
In your faith tradition, how is doubt handled? And what do you believe about it?

When you experience it, how do you react?

I have always wished it away. But because I was raised in an academic, prove-it-to-me kind of family, I have often struggled with it.

The book suggests accepting it, instead, and shows you how to use it as a launching pad into a deeper faith.

So, if you also tend to be a doubting Thomas, and would rather be a faith-filled Mary or Martha, I highly recommend this wise, comforting book. I loved it the whole way through.

Below the quote, I've included part of an interview where the author talks more about the book and about dealing with doubt.

And by the way, if you like reading inspirational books, get access to my lifestyle library, where I've got an article with links to all the faith book blog posts I've written, all in one place.

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See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. I know God more certainly and I can enjoy God more deeply. There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt. - Os Guinness