Rage Prayers - by Elizabeth Ashman Riley (Paperback)

About the Book

Are you tired of the same old prayer routine? Ready to shake things up and tell the universe exactly how you feel? It's time to unleash your spiritual side and stop holding back your true emotions with Rage Prayers.

Book Synopsis

Are you tired of the same old prayer routine? Ready to shake things up and tell the universe exactly how you feel? It's time to unleash your spiritual side and stop holding back your true emotions with Rage Prayers.

Review Quotes

"Elizabeth Ashman Riley boldy invites us to pray our whole truth, encouraging us to trust that God can handle it all. Through her personal stories of tumultuous times and a clear understanding of a more expansive theology than many of us received growing up, she helps to liberate us from toxic positivity and the pervasive fear that God is not present in the messiness of our lives. My hope is that people of all different faith traditions (and none!) read this book and explore how we can bring our whole selves to the divine."

"I cannot tell you how thankful I am for this new resource. Like evil, rage is real. Sometimes it's really all we have. This book comes from a seasoned, thoughtful, prayerful, compassionate, loving pastor and guide. Rev. Elizabeth Riley is, and has always been, a gift to those she pastors, and now she has given us this gift, Rage Prayers."

"Our spirituality does not only exist in positivity and there is something painfully beautiful in that honesty. Elizabeth captures all of our humanness in Rage Prayers and explores the side of ourselves that is often ignored from pulpits: lamenting. God is not scared of our pain. It is part of us all. Part of the divine. And should be part of our prayers. There is something in this book for everyone and I'm thankful to have these pages to return to on darker days."

"With honesty and depth of faith, Rage Prayers invites the reader into an intimate and raw encounter with God. This book is the permission slip you need if you've ever worried God couldn't handle your deepest woes, or anger, or confusion. Riley's expressions of unspoken and too-taboo conversations with the Divine offer, as she herself puts it, 'radical and ridiculous hope' to 'give way to something beautiful and true.'"

"Elizabeth Ashman Riley boldy invites us to pray our whole truth, encouraging us to trust that God can handle it all. Through her personal stories of tumultuous times and a clear understanding of a more expansive theology than many of us received growing up, she helps to liberate us from toxic positivity and the pervasive fear that God is not present in the messiness of our lives. My hope is that people of all different faith traditions (and none!) read this book and explore how we can bring our whole selves to the divine."-- "Liz Tichenor, author of The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief"

"I cannot tell you how thankful I am for this new resource. Like evil, rage is real. Sometimes it's really all we have. This book comes from a seasoned, thoughtful, prayerful, compassionate, loving pastor and guide. Rev. Elizabeth Riley is, and has always been, a gift to those she pastors, and now she has given us this gift, Rage Prayers."-- "Rt. Rev. Gregory Rickel, VIII Bishop of Olympia, Resigned"

"Our spirituality does not only exist in positivity and there is something painfully beautiful in that honesty. Elizabeth captures all of our humanness in Rage Prayers and explores the side of ourselves that is often ignored from pulpits: lamenting. God is not scared of our pain. It is part of us all. Part of the divine. And should be part of our prayers. There is something in this book for everyone and I'm thankful to have these pages to return to on darker days."-- "April Ajoy, author of Star-Spangled Jesus"

"With honesty and depth of faith, Rage Prayers invites the reader into an intimate and raw encounter with God. This book is the permission slip you need if you've ever worried God couldn't handle your deepest woes, or anger, or confusion. Riley's expressions of unspoken and too-taboo conversations with the Divine offer, as she herself puts it, 'radical and ridiculous hope' to 'give way to something beautiful and true.'"-- "Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail, author of God Didn't Make Us to Hate Us"