I like books. I am usually reading 3 or 4 books at a time. Sometimes I drag myself through a book taking months to get through. Sometimes I read in spurts and may get half a book done within hours only to set it aside for weeks…

But sometimes, like with this book I am taken by the writer’s style and content and I keep reading. This is one of those books. Would I agree with everything she says? No, of course not. But I have to admit she sweeps me away with humour, great logic, and Scripture.

April was a Republican, Christian Nationalist, and a strong presence in the media in favour of all that she now feels is just plain wrong. Here’s just snippet of her reasoning around her own realization that she was perhaps on the wrong side.

She talks you through her own thoughts as she wrestled with the thought maybe America wasn’t so good, wasn’t a Christian nation, and that maybe God had not blessed America anymore than He had blessed any nation – especially one that killed indigenous people, enslaved people of a different colour and were prepared to kill anyone that got in the way of saving America.

One last insert….not wanting to break the copyright.

You get something of the tone of the book. But what really makes it readable is – this is funny!

Her summary of Acts 15 is just hilarious. Oh, my.

What I would say is this. It’s worth the read. It’s worth thinking about what challenges she raises in our own faith structure and belief. And of course how we do in the behaviour vs belief contrast.

Thank you Amanda – what a great gift!