Embarrassed
eBook - ePub

Embarrassed

Living with a faith that makes no sense to my friends

  1. 201 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Embarrassed

Living with a faith that makes no sense to my friends

About this book

"Fun and full of insight" — Jonathan Clatworthy

Embarrassed is the honest story of one man's struggle with a faith that was important to him but meant so little to his non-believing friends. Coloured with tender emotion, misunderstanding and desire to follow what he thought was right, Embarrassed tells of Graham Turner's "coming out" about the shame he has carried all his life.

He felt awkward when his friends commented, "You seem like a nice guy, how come you believe this nonsense?" Crippling embarrassment confused and wounded him; it alienated him from many of the people he knew and valued who did not "do God".

But, in time, this awkwardness became the catalyst that led him to discover a deeper, more generous and less simplistic appreciation of life in all its fullness. This is not a heroic story of triumph over adversity, but the discovery of goodness in all things through an experience of life falling apart and decades of being ill at ease. His is a story of discovery, fulfilment and hope.

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Information

Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781789593679
Edition
0
eBook ISBN
9781789593693

Table of contents

  1. Also by Graham Turner
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. The secret
  4. Surveillance God
  5. Cosseted
  6. Aloneness
  7. Faith and the mushroom cloud
  8. A shocking start
  9. Compartmentalization
  10. Church tedium
  11. Vandalism
  12. Alistair
  13. The school’s dysfunction
  14. The sticker incident
  15. Remedial
  16. A ray of hope
  17. Independence
  18. University
  19. Factory
  20. Feminism
  21. Mission
  22. The orbit of love
  23. In-laws
  24. The call
  25. Our new start
  26. Doing God
  27. Theological college
  28. Plagiarism and the poor
  29. Chapel
  30. Keeping rooted
  31. Holy orders
  32. Alice in Wonderland
  33. Church buildings
  34. Success and discomfort
  35. Missteps
  36. Job search
  37. Religious fervour
  38. Changing the world
  39. Unworkable prayer
  40. Work smarter
  41. Collapse
  42. Crisis
  43. Disorientation
  44. The learning quest
  45. No longer Christian
  46. Staff Team Day
  47. Jack
  48. Presence
  49. Macclesfield
  50. Language
  51. Images and ideas
  52. Expressing the inexpressible
  53. Creating space
  54. Resisting busyness
  55. Children in their seriousness
  56. Back to the future
  57. Chaplaincy
  58. Relief
  59. Inmates
  60. Connection
  61. Arrested
  62. Prison staff
  63. Death inside
  64. So long, farewell
  65. A small price to pay
  66. From surveillance to love
  67. Notes

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