"You Can Trust a God with Scars: Faith (and Doubt) for the Searching Soul", by Jared Ayers, intrigued me as soon as I read the title. Ayers wrote this book after coming to the point where he wandered if his whole belief system was a mistake, and if his 20 plus years as a pastor was all spent in vain. He compares the Christian life to "yearning for our true home" and the thirst we all have to know that what we believe is really true. I agreed with his assertion that "the living God is not an object to be studied, a force to be wielded, an idea to be argued. God will not be managed, pinned down, coerced, cornered. God is Life. God is Being. God is Mystery. God is wholly and entirely Other from us."

I appreciated Ayers' transparency and honesty, and think this would be a good book for someone who is struggling with what they believe. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. All opinions are my own.