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For Weary Evangelicals

You love Jesus, but something about your church tradition stopped adding up.

If you are here because something stopped adding up — the pressure to feel more, decide harder, climb higher — you are not backsliding. You may simply be tired of carrying what was never yours to carry.

There is an older way of being Christian, one where God does the giving and you do the receiving. Lutherans call it the means of grace: Word and Sacrament, ordinary things God uses to hand over extraordinary gifts. None of it depends on the quality of your feelings on a given Sunday.

The books gathered here were written for this exact moment in a reader’s life. Start with The Hollow Altar — it was written to be the first step. The others take up particular questions you have probably already asked.