'Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed' dares you to think about some of the songs prayers and phrases and clichés used in worship and asks: ‘what do they really mean?’ How do they sound to those unfamiliar with the words and are we even thinking about what they say, or have we just grown up with them… so they must be meaningful, mustn't they?

Brutally honest but full of grace, 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.

For instance, here’s a tough one from the beginning of the book: how can we proudly believe in ‘the God moment’ for the individual while thousands die in poverty and suffering every minute of every day? What kind of a God is that? From here Jay Bakker goes on to name the gods we really worship, and reveals the distorted and false image of God that kind of ‘belief’ causes us to adopt.

Through your doubts and questions – rather that through your doctrines and certainties, the author reintroduces you to the God of love and grace. A God that dispels fear rather than imposes it in the way we’ve come to define his judgement on a world that’s just a little screwed up at the moment. This is a brave book for brave souls who want to cross the line from belief to doubt and on toward faith.