Drawing on his personal experiences, including his Bible Belt upbringing, his years as a Buddhist monk, and his life as a father and husband in a small rural community, Strand makes even the most subtle spiritual teaching heartfelt and accessible. How to Believe in God illuminates a clear path to reclaiming a God that leaves nothing out and leaves no one behind.
“I learned a lot from How To Believe in God, which presents new and thought-provoking analyses of familiar scriptures.”
—Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and author of Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
“An astonishingly eclectic spiritual seeker . . . an audacious and surprising book.”
—Norman Fischer, author of Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms and founder of The Everyday Zen Foundation
“This book could lay a new foundation for the reform of Christianity.”
—Richard Rohr, O.F.M., author of Everything Belongs
“Can the world’s great religions break out of their various destructive tribalisms and recover the universal story of the one human family? How To Believe in God is water in the desert, written by pilgrim whose own journey will encourage and validate all those who are on the path.”
—Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and author of Soul Making and Reimagining Christianity
“Clark Strand turns humanity’s perpetual collective conflict over which religious text is the right one into the very key to enter life’s deepest mystery.”
—Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us
“A timely, beautifully crafted book . . . especially relevant for Western seekers on either side of the biblical divide.”
—Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of The Omega Institute, and author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
“How to Believe in God is the book I have been looking for all my life.”
—Gail Godwin, author of Evensong
