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Chapter 2

  1. Google Dictionary, s.v. “catechism.”
  2. Mark 12:1.
  3. John 3:1–15.
  4. John 4:1–30.
  5. Mark 4:11–12.
  6. Revelation 3:15–16.

Chapter 4

  1. Letter to Rev. Joseph Neuner, 1961.
  2. Genesis 28:10–22.
  3. Genesis 32:22–32.
  4. Exodus 3.
  5. Exodus 13:20–22.
  6. Luke 2:36–38.
  7. John 5:19–20.
  8. Acts 2.
  9. Acts 10, Acts 16.
  10. Acts 16:7.
  11. Acts 15:28.

Chapter 5

  1. Ana-Maria Rizzuto, The Birth of the Living God: A Psychoanalytic Study (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
  2. Rizzuto, Birth of the Living God, 109.
  3. This is a very brief description of the atonement, or what Jesus accomplished on the cross. Volumes have been written on the breadth of how powerful Jesus’s resurrection was for humanity. One of my favorites is Scot McKnight, A Community Called Atonement (Nashville: Abingdon, 2007).
  4. “Glossary: Wesleyan Quadrilateral, The,” United Methodist Church, https://tinyurl.com/ybkr2fgx, quoted from Alan K. Waltz, A Dictionary for United Methodists (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991).
  5. https://theglobalchurchproject.com/

Chapter 6

  1. Joan Chittister, Called to Question (Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, 2004), 29.
  2. Randy Peterman, “Theological Reductionism,” Randy Peterman Dot Com (blog), November 8, 2006, http://tinyurl.com/ybgp8y4x.
  3. Ephesians 3:14–21.

Chapter 7

  1. Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian and the Risk of Commitment (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1999), 80.
  2. Taylor, Myth of Certainty, 81.
  3. Gregory A. Boyd, The Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013), 15.
  4. National Study of Youth and Religion, Notre Dame, https://youthandreligion.nd.edu.
  5. Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 162.
  6. John 3:1–21.
  7. Taylor, Myth of Certainty, 153.
  8. Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings (Boston: Beacon, 2012), 115.

Chapter 8

  1. Janet O. Hagberg and Robert A. Guelich, The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith (Salem, WI: Sheffield, 2005), 97.
  2. Romans 5:3–5 The Message translation.
  3. Lorna Collier, “Growth after Trauma,” Monitor on Psychology 47, no. 10 (November 2016): 48.
  4. Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun, “The Post Traumatic Growth Inventory: Measuring the Positive Legacy of Trauma,” Journal of Traumatic Stress 9, no. 3 (1996): 455–71,
    doi.org/10.1002/jts.2490090305.

Chapter 9

  1. John Carpenter, “Boston Beer Company’s Jim Koch on the Crucial Difference between Dangerous and Merely Scary,” Forbes, May 31, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/y7xnjfyw.
  2. Thank you to Dr. Christine Osgood, LMFT DMin, for helping me develop the experiments in part 2.

Chapter 10

  1. Genesis 32:22–32.
  2. Matthew 14:29–30.
  3. John 20:24–29.
  4. “Two-Thirds of Christians Face Doubt,” Barna, July 25, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/ycpj9d2b.
  5. A hermeneutic is the lens through which you are approaching a specific passage. In this chapter, you can hear that I am assuming a hermeneutic that takes all of the Bible into account when trying to decide the meaning of a specific text for today.
  6. Jude 9.
  7. Exegesis: discovering the original, intended meaning of a given text through careful, systematic study. Exegesis is an effort at reaching back into history to the original author and audience.
  8. Jeremiah 29:13.
  9. Psalm 95:8, Proverbs 28:14, Zechariah 7:12.
  10. Acts 17:24–28.
  11. See also Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (New York: Doubleday, 1994).
  12. Adapted from F. LeRon Shults and Steven J. Sandage, Transforming Spirituality: Integrating Theology and Psychology (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006).

Chapter 11

  1. James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011), loc. 3059 of 4753, Kindle.
  2. From an interview quoted in Ian Punnett, How to Pray When You’re Pissed at God (New York: Harmony, 2013), 10.
  3. Jonathan Martin, How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016), 195.

Chapter 12

  1. Psalm 139:7–8.

Chapter 13

  1. Peter Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006), 124–25.
  2. This concept of grief as the antidote to denial is from Walter Brueggemann, Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014).
  3. “American Say They Are More Anxious Than a Year Ago; Baby Boomers Report Greatest Increase in Anxiety,” American Psychiatric Association, May 7, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/y75wxxrq.
  4. Ian Punnett, How to Pray When You’re Pissed at God (New York: Harmony, 2013), 28.

Chapter 14

  1. Matthew 12:48–50.

Chapter 15

  1. Jack Abramowitz, “443. Sewing the Sheets of Parchment,” Orthodox Union, https://tinyurl.com/ybnlvfp3.
  2. Ian Punnett, How to Pray When You’re Pissed at God (New York: Harmony, 2013), 29.
  3. Hebrews 4:12.
  4. John 16:12–13a.

Chapter 16

  1. This theological interpretation of the purpose of the church is widespread and typically referred to as missional theology. Many scholars have been influential in shaping this understanding of the church, but Lesslie Newbigin is one of the core missiologists who started the reframe that has led to the current conversation.

Chapter 17

  1. Stephanie Petit, “Louis C. K. and SNL Take on Liberal Internet ‘Activists’ in a Hilarious Music Video,” People, April 9, 2017, https://tinyurl.com/y92g89lx.
  2. Jack Alexander, “Barna and Author Jack Alexander Discover a Compromised View of Mercy,” Cision, July 18, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/y7hvroym.
  3. “Does Mercy Influence Christians’ Actions?” Barna, August 28, 2018, https://tinyurl.com/y9khu8lo.
  4. Xavier Devictor and Quy-Toan Do, “How Many Years Do Refugees Stay in Exile?” Development for Peace (blog), The World Bank, September 15, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/ybs834xb.
  5. “Our Story,” One2One, one2onementor.org/about-us.html.

Chapter 18

  1. For a very interesting read, or TED Talk for that matter, check out Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress (New York: Avery, 2015).

Chapter 19

  1. Luke 24:13–35.

Chapter 20

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:25.
  2. Genesis 15:1–21, Jeremiah 34:18–20.
  3. Matthew 16:15.
  4. Mark 10:51.
  5. Matthew 6:27.
  6. Matthew 6:26.
  7. Matthew 7:3.
  8. Matthew 16:26.
  9. Mark 4:21.
  10. Mark 8:17–18.
  11. Luke 6:46.
  12. Luke 22:27.
  13. C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (New York: Macmillan, 1951), 113.
  14. Lewis, Prince Caspian, 117.