Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God

Jim Palmer, an emergent pastor, recounts how his faith was shaken and rebuilt after he began to question the religion he had grown up with. Rather than finding answers inside church structures, he learns from an unusual cast of people he meets along the way: a hip-hop performer, a waitress at a late-night diner, a tire salesman and a young woman with a disability. Each chapter describes a different encounter and what it taught him about God outside the usual institutions. The stories range from comic to painful and are told with candour about his own failings. The book invites readers who feel dissatisfied with conventional Christianity to consider a more personal and open-ended search for faith.