God is white, male, conservative, and whatever else I want him to be. NOT. God has been exiled from His own creation. Not just by sin - but by religion. Early Judeo-Christian religion painted God as a "mysterious" and "unknowable" cosmic being far removed from humanity - which justified a powerful priesthood as "mediators" between mortal and divine.

Jay Bakker sets the record straight. God is not some conservative male "cosmic cop" policing his wayward creation, and He has never been "separate" from us as we've been led to believe. Jesus' redeeming presence on earth was proof that the "mystery" surrounding God is an illusion: God was and always has been present, purposeful, and active in our world. Grappling with what it means to truly "doubt" and "have faith," Bakker unpacks and even debunks crucial myths that many Christians accept as fact.

He asks the questions no one else will, like "Is God a Hypocrite?" and "Is God a Good Christian?" He also reevaluates the startling truth about vital issues like divorce, death, Biblical traditions, the influence of tribal dynamics, and even the authenticity of certain parts of the Bible. Your relationship with the divine will never be the same.

Jay voices the questions that Christians are thinking but won’t ask as he chronicles his doubt about God, the Bible, heaven and hell, church, society, relationships, grace, and love. In the process he encourages all of us to welcome “the other”, to read the Bible differently but better, to draw together in community, and to seek an unknown God of limitless grace.

Brutally honest but full of grace, Jay invites everyone to cross the line, to dig deeper, and to discover a faith that is beyond belief.