Sarah Bessey

Unseen Existences

“The notion, let alone the hope, of heaven has disappeared from most of our theology. In Unseen Existences, Brian Zahnd offers cynical and materialistic people a path to reclaiming and reimagining heaven as well as all that was and will be. I found this book to be deeply comforting without being fuzzy or saccharine or easily cross-stitched on a pillow. It's the kind of hope that generations of fellow Christians knew well and held in trust for our generation now. Hopeful and filled with wonder, this is a beautiful and robust theology of life as pilgrimage with a home waiting for us at the end.”

What Falls from the Sky

Christian Living

“You've never read a book like this one: frankly self-deprecating, boldly complex, intense, joyfully honest, devastatingly beautiful, heartbreakingly funny. What Falls from the Sky is about so much more than one woman's year without the Internet; it's about marriage and choices, faith and rest, community and family, grief and hope, food and dirt—all the things that make our lives worth living. It is impossible to live an unexamined life with Esther as your friend. She is completely herself, and so her story sings of freedom within the silence and even within the noise.”