“There is a more loving, more genuine vision of God than the one we see being performed around us,” Christianbook.com argues, “and this book helps us find it.” Indeed, as author Bruce Reyes-Chow affirms, his book “repudiates that version of Christianity by offering a better one….” He “writes to reclaim a space for a positive, expansive, and healing Christian faith,” Booklist attests. “What I have to offer,” he lets fall, “is a story of choosing faith.”
The Presbyterian Outlook pictures his effort as “a kind of workbook—memoir/theology text/statement of faith—for those ready to consider…Christian faith in the 21st century.” In doing so, “it seeks out the reader’s perspectives in a conversational and invitational way.” Thus, he concludes by encouraging the reader to create what he calls a “faith montage”; Booklist sees it as being a “spiritual practice, guide, and statement.” Such a declaration “helps to give form to your faith,” the author attests, “and acts as a living, sweeping, audacious account of what you believe.”
A third-generation Filipino-Chinese American, Reyes-Chow, who pictures himself as “a card-carrying liberal Christian”—SSUC spiritual seekers are apt to find his thinking orthodox—once served as moderator of the 2.3-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA).
Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith
By Bruce Reyes-Chow
Broadleaf Books, 2024
