In this single sentence, Larry Jordan explains what he sought to accomplish in his writing of The Way: “I deconstructed everything about my old, conventional Christian belief system, and reconstructed a new, unconventional belief system—based on Eastern religions, the mystics, and the scientists—where everyone is related, and everything is connected.”
Writing this spring in The Crestone Eagle—Crestone, Colorado, Jordan’s home away from home, is the site of “numerous spiritual centres”—Karina Wetherbee tells how the author “undertook the pilgrimage of study and self-analysis” that resulted in the book. She pictures the dismantling of Jordan’s faith as being a two-sided puzzle, which, once undone, then reassembled, “has a new image on the other side.” Exposing himself to other faiths, “he found more connection and spirituality in these non-Christian practices than he ever had experienced sitting in a church pew.”
According to the Australian bookseller Angus & Robertson, “The book is reporting, rather than apologetics, memoir, or polemic.” Actually, it’s pictured as being like “a TED talk,” in that it is “deeply personal, with broadly universal themes.” In fact, “Reading The Way is like having a cup of coffee with Bart Ehrman, Eckhart Tole, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Albert Einstein.”
The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World
By Larry Jordan
Crestone Press LLC, 2023
