Unlearning God

America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt asshaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient butfully formed adult spirituality.Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, onlyto discover later that what we received as being certain is actually nothing like it.And then we're faced with a choice--retreat to spiritual security and thecommunity that comes with it, or strike out into the unknown.With his trademark humor and down-home wisdom, Philip Gulley serves as justthe spiritual director a wayward pilgrim could warm to, inviting readers into hisown sometimes rollicking, sometimes daunting journey of spiritual discovery. Hewrites about being raised by a Catholic mother and a Baptist father across thestreet from a family of Jehovah's Witnesses--all three camps convinced the othersare doomed. To nearly everyone's consternation, Philip grows up to be a Quakerand a pastor. In Unlearning God, Gulley showcases his well-loved gift as astoryteller and his acute sensibilities as a public theologian in conversations thatwill charm, provoke, encourage, and inspire.