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Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul Book Signing at Saint Luke's

The community is invited to a book signing with local author the Rev. David Anderson on Thursday, September 12, 6:30 to 8:30pm at Saint Luke’s Parish Youth & Community Center. Saint Luke’s is located at 1864 Post Road at the corner of Rings End Road in Darien.

Anderson’s new book, Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul: The Passage to New Life When Old Beliefs Die, will be available for sale, with proceeds supporting Person-to-Person’s Scholarship Fund and Saint Luke’s Youth Servant Projects.

What’s Anderson’s new work about? Life!

The rock band R.E.M. perhaps said it best with their hit song, “Losing My Religion,” and its prescient opening: “Oh Life, it’s bigger, it’s bigger than you.”

Today, many are challenging their conventional faith, which promises that if you believe the right things and live a good life, you’ll be rewarded—here and hereafter. Initially, this belief system works while one is growing up, but eventually it always fails, leaving many to question their faith or turn away altogether.

In his new book, Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul: The Passage to New Life When Old Beliefs Die (Convergent Books), Episcopal minister and author David Robert Anderson provides an important spiritual guidebook for those (and there are many), who have lost their way.

Indeed, this is not a book that supports the notion of losing faith and religion. Rather, it is a tract that meets readers down at the soul’s lost luggage counter and shows by example how a renewed and deeper faith grows precisely through loss and disillusionment.

Says Anderson, “This is a road map for people whose prayers were once answered (most of the time), for those who have been spiritually numb for years, for parents who teach their children to believe, while they pretend, and yet still go to church. This is also a guide for people who once had Jesus in their hearts, but wonder now whether He was only a figment of their childhood imagination.”

About the Author
An Episcopal minister and Rector at Saint Luke’s Parish in Darien, CT, David Robert Anderson is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Breakfast Epiphanies and is a blogger.


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