Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439149874)

As a thirty-seven-year-old, highly skeptical, deeply rational woman, Joan had it all: loving family, extravagant home, a high-profile career, even personal contentment. So Joan was more surprised than anyone when she was relieved in an instant from the luxury of spiritual doubt and compelled to realign her life around practices of faith--about which she was a novice. With an unexplainable desire to pursue whatever God had for her at whatever cost was called for, Joan left her high-salary profession, sold her home and all her furniture (with her husband's support), and started life from a blank slate. Finally realizing that she had been flirting with faith since she was a young teen, Joan fell in love with the God who had been pursuing her.

Joan candidly shares the story of her radical life change as she moved from atheist, to agnostic in addiction recovery, to the unexpected moment when she was "struck" Christian. As Joan lets go of control and convention, her skepticism is gradually replaced with a realization that embracing her new faith with radical abandon led to a far more mysterious and countercultural lifestyle than she'd ever imagined.

Author: Joan Ball
ISBN-10: 1439149879
ISBN-13: 9781439149874
Publisher: Howard Books
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2010
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.46h x 6.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Retailing 04/01/2010 pg. 21
CBA Retailers 06/01/2010 pg. 55