Katie Hays

Humbler Faith, Bigger God

Apologetics

“God has surely heard it all: the complaints, the objections, the silence of a back turned on faith. Samuel Wells asks us—those of us who still believe that God can be found in Christian faith and its expression—if we have taken seriously the protests of our disbelieving neighbors. Now is the time for humility, church. Now is the time to listen. Now is the time for us to put up or shut up. Humbler Faith, Bigger God is here to help.”

In the Margins

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“I tell folks in my church, ‘Don’t read the Bible alone.’ It takes a community to do the discerning work such a powerful text requires. Shannon Kearns has expanded my community by inviting me into his company as a transgender Christian and a serious reader of Scripture. He shows me what my cis-straight self would easily miss—and isn’t that a good gift?”

On Her Knees

History & Biography

“There’s a lot of imagined, wished for, regrettable, forgettable sex—and body talk, and bawdy talk—in this memoir, but it’s absolutely not sexy. Davies has a sexual story only a former fundagelical could write—where body and spirit have come completely and tragically untethered from one another. That’s not what the church intended, but it’s what the church has wrought for lots of us. God help us get ourselves put back together. Stories like this should help.”

The Gathering, A Womanist Church

Women

“When you try something really hard, and you feel God’s windy Spirit at your back, and it works, you want to shout it to the whole world: ‘Look what God will do! Alleluia!’ The women of The Gathering, with the Spirit’s help, have done something really hard, and so beautiful. This book is their alleluia, and all of us with ears to hear are blessed by it. Shout it from the mountaintops, sisters!”

To Rebehold the Stars

Christian Living

“The thing about your faith falling apart is that it happens without you meaning for it to. The thing about theological rehabilitation is that it only happens if you gird up your loins and get to work. Tiffany Yecke Brooks has done that work, and she’s ready to help you do it too, with thoughtful attention to the complexity of surrendering to the mystery of God. So get on up, dust yourself off, and seek the Lord. You’ve got a good guide here.”