{"id":334,"date":"2009-01-13T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T03:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/review-of-confessions-of-an-amateur-believer-by-patty-kirk\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T23:51:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T03:51:46","slug":"review-of-confessions-of-an-amateur-believer-by-patty-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Review of Confessions of an Amateur Believer, by Patty Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Confessions of an Amateur Believer<\/em><\/p>\n

by Patty Kirk<\/p>\n

Nelson Books, 2006.\u00a0 271 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred Review.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amateurbeliever.com\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.thomasnelson.com\/<\/a>
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\nPatty Kirk grew up Catholic but wandered away from God and traveled all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0 When she came back to America, she married a Christian farmer, and ended up becoming a Christian herself.\u00a0 This section from \u201cAbout the Author\u201d summarizes what the book is all about:<\/p>\n

God began infecting every aspect of her daily life, converting every struggle to a miracle and holding her to account for every apparent victory.\u00a0 She fought hard against these changes, in her marriage and parenting, her work, her mind.\u00a0 She recorded her battles with God in free-form spiritual writings part praise, part lament, part exegesis, woven together with narratives of her daily life and her sometimes unwilling research into what it means to believe in God.
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This book is a collection of those essays on spiritual things.\u00a0 They are beautifully written and full of insight.\u00a0 Those who follow my Sonderquotes blog will recognize Patty Kirk\u2019s name, as I read through the book slowly, and so often found highly quotable paragraphs.<\/p>\n

These are musings or meditations on life, God, the spiritual journey.\u00a0 The author is open and honest, and readers will find her a kindred spirit.\u00a0 She\u2019s not afraid to talk about things a lot of us feel, but don\u2019t necessarily know how to express as well.<\/p>\n

This book explores how, having begun to believe as a child and lost sight of God for half a lifetime, I came not only to recognize him again but, by struggling with scripture and my own habits of unbelief, to acknowledge and celebrate his active participation in my life.<\/em><\/p>\n

I love the picture she presents of God in these pages, a God who loves us, and who is not mean.<\/p>\n

A big thank you to John, a Sonderbooks reader who recommended this book to me!<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on Sonderbooks<\/a> at: www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/amateur_believer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Confessions of an Amateur Believer by Patty Kirk Nelson Books, 2006.\u00a0 271 pages. Starred Review. http:\/\/www.amateurbeliever.com\/ http:\/\/www.thomasnelson.com\/ \u00a0 Patty Kirk grew up Catholic but wandered away from God and traveled all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0 When she came back to America, she married a Christian farmer, and ended up becoming a Christian herself.\u00a0 This section from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34,35,2,31,42,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-christian","category-musings","category-nonfiction-review","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}