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Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

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Raised in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for herself and play by her own rules. Yet a creeping darkness followed her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the edge of her balcony, making her ask once and for all why anything mattered. At that moment everything she knew and believed was shattered.

Asking the unflinching questions about life and death, good and evil, led Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was an awkward, sceptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her husband, concealing religious books in opaque bags as if they were porn and locking herself in public bathroom stalls to read the Bible.

Just when Jennifer had a profound epiphany that gave her the courage to convert, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition-and the only treatment was directly at odds with the doctrines of her new-found faith. Something Other Than God is a poignant, profound and often funny tale of one woman who set out to find the meaning of life and discovered that true happiness sometimes requires losing it all.

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Author:
Jennifer Fulwiler
Format:
Softcover, 240 pages
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1 Review

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    Logical Pathway to Love!

    Posted by W P on Sep 29th 2020

    As a cradle Catholic I wasn’t expecting to be so drawn in and uplifted by Jen’s journey; boy was I wrong! She’s eloquently raw and literally rationalizes her every step. I love her honesty and learning about her quest made me more thoughtful about my own.

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