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Everything Good about God Is True - by Bruce Reyes-Chow (Paperback)

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  • A better story of faith exists, and it has the capacity to heal the world--if we only embrace, articulate, and live it more courageously.
  • Author(s): Bruce Reyes-Chow
  • 198 Pages
  • Religion + Beliefs, Christian Life

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About the Book



You know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God. But what if someone asked: "What do you believe?" Bruce Reyes-Chow helps us consider what it means to choose faith and how to create one's own "faith montage." What if we could articulate the gospel of love, humility, and justice? What if everything good about God is true?



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A better story of faith exists, and it has the capacity to heal the world--if we only embrace, articulate, and live it more courageously.

You know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God. You don't agree with the doctrines of an exclusionary, dominant Christianity. But what if someone asked you: "What do you believe?" In this primer on progressive, expansive, generous Christianity, writer and pastor Bruce Reyes-Chow helps us reconsider--or consider for the first time--what it means to choose faith. What if we could articulate the gospel of love, kindness, humility, and justice? What if the Christian narrative both embraces contradiction and lays claim to deep, historic truths? And what if everything good about God is actually true?

With clarity, vulnerability, and wit, Reyes-Chow helps us learn a grammar of faith about God, Jesus, and the Spirit that breathes fresh meaning into old words like sin, confession, salvation, baptism, communion, and gratitude. He doesn't shy away from calling out the hateful and hurtful dogmas of many churches, but he also turns our attention toward essential questions: What if God created humans to be beautifully complex? What if the Spirit calls us to lament and repent and also beckons us toward pathways of healing, wholeness, and hope? And if Jesus equips us for lives of justice and kindness, how might our imaginations expand for what the world could be?

Reyes-Chow offers his own "faith montage" and helps individuals and groups create their own. There is a more loving, more genuine vision of God than the one we see being performed around us, and this book helps us find it.



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Denominational leader Reyes-Chow writes to reclaim space for a positive, expansive, and healing Christian faith...The author encourages the creation of a faith montage as spiritual practice, guide, and statement, sharing his own--a lyrical statement of belief, and the book's framework. His montage caps the book with a contagious gratitude, joy of faith, and generous benediction for all. -- Kelly Fojtik --Booklist

"It's an excellent resource for individuals or groups who may have been wounded by a religious community, or for wandering, wondering folk who may know nothing about Christian faith..." -- Lucy Forster-Smith --The Presbyterian Outlook

"For a generation that continually finds ourselves questioning and re-questioning the very idea of religious 'truth, ' Bruce Reyes-Chow has delivered a gift of a book right on time, promising us that we can still find comfort in the Divine One we've long loved--not in spite of Mystery, but because of it." --Shannon K. Evans, author of Feminist Prayers for My Daughter and Rewilding Motherhood

"Bruce Reyes-Chow's book refuses to concede Christianity to extremism and makes the compelling case for a Christian practice that is rooted in openness, reconciliation, justice, truth, and love. As a pastor, biblical scholar, and anti-poverty activist, I have always been taken that the 'faith of Jesus' and 'faith in Jesus' are written the same in biblical Greek. This book shows how faith in a justice-seeking, inclusive, all-loving God holds true to the faith that Jesus embodies." --Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, director, Kairos Center, and co-chair, Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

"When it comes to faith and spirituality, some people feel like they're on the outside trying to get in, and others feel like they're on the inside looking for a way out. Both groups will love Bruce Reyes-Chow's new book. He names the parts of religion that so many of us are trying to get away from, and he introduces an understanding of faith in God that so many of us would like to be part of. Highly recommended!" --Brian D. McLaren, author of Faith After Doubt and other books

"Bruce Reyes-Chow articulates what so many of us are quietly thinking: that there are valuable goods in this Christian story worth carrying forward. When our faith is hijacked, the solution is not to turn over the keys; it's to say and live what we know to be true. Everything Good about God Is True offers a much-needed catechesis--one of liberation and love and justice--that gives voice to our longings for a God beyond both our construction and our deconstruction. This is a must-read for all who sense that something in this faith is worth salvaging." --Grace Ji-Sun Kim, professor of theology at Earlham School of Religion, and author of Invisible, Spirit Life, and Reimagining Spirit

"This book is a reminder that the answer to bad theology isn't no theology; it is good theology. We need to reclaim our faith from the folks who have used it to camouflage their bigotry. We need to live out a version of Christianity that is beautiful and loving and worth believing in. In this manifesto of love, my friend Bruce Reyes-Chow invites us all to acknowledge the damage that has been done in the name of Christ, but he also dares us to refuse to let the bad news be the only news. He challenges us to reclaim our faith." --Shane Claiborne, author, activist, and cofounder of Red Letter Christians


Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 198
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Christian Life
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Theme: Spiritual Growth
Format: Paperback
Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow
Language: English
Street Date: March 5, 2024
TCIN: 89464042
UPC: 9781506495699
Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-8779
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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5.0 out of 5 stars with 2 reviews
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A great book for faithful Christians, curious seekers, teachers, and more

5 out of 5 stars
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Adrian - 1 year ago
In Everything Good about God is True, Bruce Reyes-Chow shares a primer on Christian doctrine and a theology of love beyond love that is challenging, hopeful, and, well, *good.* These 200 pages have much to offer to the barely curious, the seminary trained, and everybody in between. Bruce weaves the particularities of his own story with bold claims about God who is with us and who has dreams for creation that we get to be part of. He doesn’t avoid the ugly stuff of sin and suffering, nor does he explain it away. But in drawing the story of God through the prism of our real lives, Bruce writes his way toward an expression of the Good News worth believing in and gives us tools to do the same. If you’re teaching a Sunday school class, trying to figure out what Jesus is really all about, or just looking for a new way of approaching Christian faith that is anti-oppression and expansive, please consider this beautiful gift of a book.
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Bruce does it again!

5 out of 5 stars
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HebrewDawn - 1 year ago
Bruce Reyes Chow has done it again. Another book that is readable, but so meaningful. This book gets at the heart of what it means to believe in God, that it’s “not all that complex or complicated, and I trust in a God whose goodness is entirely true…You are known by God. You are loved by God. That is enough. You are enough.”
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