“My primary work is to create safe and brave spaces for transformation and healing,” Kathy Escobar affirms. “I do this at The Refuge, my faith community,” which is in Denver, and which she calls a “unique Christian community.” She’s being interviewed by Voyage Denver. “I am most known for being a practitioner,” she adds.
The late Rachel Held Evans picked up on this in her critique: “Faith Shift is unique in that it offers practical, pastoral advice for managing the emotional, relational, and spiritual fallout” to readers experiencing crises of faith. Escobar “is the perfect person to write this book. Not only has she gone through a faith shift of her own, she has years of experience counselling people who find themselves in some sort of spiritual wilderness.”
As reviewer Michael Camp explains, “[S]he explains the six different stages of a typical spiritual evolution,” from embracing traditional faith to unraveling to rebuilding. In her writing, she is “descriptive rather than prescriptive,” he notes. “It guides your reflection with a non-judgmental and very light hand.” Agreed, bysearching.wordpress.com warrants: “This book is like a non-judgmental friend,” and provides “a practical tool to take stock of your own journey. It is absolutely invaluable.”
Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe is Coming Apart
By Kathy Escobar
Convergent Books, 2014