Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061626813 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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firms. In 1998, his prayers were answered when the Los Angeles Times asked him to write about faith. Yet what happened over the next eight years was a roller-coaster of inspiration, confusion, doubt, and soul-searching as his reporting and experiences slowly chipped away at his faith. He found few differences between the morals of Christians and atheists. How he faced that power, and wrestled with it, is must reading for people of faith and nonbelievers alike.. He investigated religious institutions that acted less ethically than corrupt Wall St. William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. He explored every doubt, every question—until, finally, his faith collapsed. Lobdell became a born-again Christian
He is married with four boys.. He is on the visiting faculty at the University of California, Irvine. In 2008 he left the Los Angeles Times after a long tenure. William Lobdell has been a journalist for 25 years, winning many state and national awards
"A Memoir of Losing Faith on the Religion Beat" according to George P. Wood. Losing My Religion is William Lobdell's memoir of becoming an evangelical, then a Roman Catholic, then a reluctant atheist. It is an engrossing and quick read. And unlike Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, Lobdell is not vicious. He disagrees with believers, but he does not despise them.Lobdell is an award-winning journalist who covered the religion beat for the Los Angeles Times. As a one-time resident of Costa Mesa, California--where Lobdell lives--and a former reader of the Times, I personally know some of the people Lobdell reported on, and I remember reading some of his stories. His reportage on the sins of Pau. Too honest to find fault with R. Reynolds This book is nothing more and nothing less than the honest, raw account of one person's journey of grappling with all of life's contradictions of good and evil in the hopes of finding something that has meaning and brings peace.As someone who has experienced some of the very same happiness and despair through formal religion, I felt like Lobdell took the words right out of my heart. Throughout the narrative, I found it so easy to understand how and why Lobdell reacted to certain experiences and facts: good, bad, and ugly.I think the book is written in such a way that even someone with unshakable faith could come to understand the valid. "Sincere and Instructive" according to rowleySincere and Instructive William Lobdell's account of losing his Christian faith is both moving and instructive; moving because Lobdell shares his feelings openly and instructive because it is easy to see why almost anyone's faith could be shaken by his experience. The essence of why Lobdell's faith withered is apparent from the following extract (p.161): "It started to bother me greatly that God's institutions - ones He was supposed to be guiding - were often more corrupt than their secular counterparts. If these churches were infused and guided by the Holy Spirit, shouldn't it follow that they would function in a morally superior fashion than a corporation o. 2256. William Lobdell's account of losing his Christian faith is both moving and instructive; moving because Lobdell shares his feelings openly and instructive because it is easy to see why almost anyone's faith could be shaken by his experience. The essence of why Lobdell's faith withered is apparent from the following extract (p.161): "It started to bother me greatly that God's institutions - ones He was supposed to be guiding - were often more corrupt than their secular counterparts. If these churches were infused and guided by the Holy Spirit, shouldn't it follow that they would function in a morally superior fashion than a corporation o
Despairing of the role of priests and bishops in that scandal, he refashions his identity as a crusading reporter out to cleanse the church of corrupt leaders. Central to the arc of this memoir is the unfolding sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, which Lobdell covered in depth during his time as a religion reporter, beginning in 2000. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. But after finding that his investigative stories about faith healer Benny Hinn and televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch appear to make no difference on the reach of these ministries or the lives of their followers, he gives up on the beat and on religion generally. Still, the memoir's st