Brett's book unexpectedly packed a punch. I grew up in the church and now am a pastor's wife. Uncomfortable lays a theological basis for what the Church should look like. Brett is a humorous and compassionate guide through the peculiarities and awkward bits of being part of the larger Christian community. His is a direct challenge to the idea of church hopping, instead calling us to a more broad and gracious view of the Body of Christ. A great read.

I have long believed that church is what you make of it for the most part. If the teaching and doctrine are solid, then "church shopping" should not be a thing. This book really highlights how it's ok to be uncomfortable with church, it's ok to have parts that don't really fit. But it's our responsibility to make ourselves fit with the church rather than the other way around. Great food for thought.

Uncomfortable was a wakeup call I didn't know I needed. This is a book I will be recommending to many in my church.

I had mixed feelings about this book all of the way through. I appreciated McCracken's critique of a desire for authenticity, which can at times give way to a desire for complacency. When "just being authentic" means "I'm comfortable in my sin," we've failed the call to holy living. For me, this brief insight was the highlight of the book.

Each chapter's emphasis was generally good on its own, and a few were even challenging - but mostly, it was predictable and generic.

McCracken's tradition also shone through the book in a way that was off-putting to readers from other traditions (or at least to me). McCracken takes a fundamentalist approach to scriptural inerrancy and writes from a charismatic perspective (which he describes as something relatively new to him). Perhaps most odd to me was a frequent celebration of alcohol, which was highlighted in nearly every chapter, and seems to be at odds with some of the principles of his own book.

There are certainly relevant and important ideas in the book, but when it comes to recommending it to others (especially members of my congregation), this book gets a hard "pass." There are good parts, but to get to them, you have to wade through an abundance of generic observations and far too many quotes from Lifeway celebrity authors and Calvinist church leaders.