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Together they amount to a series of reflections on faith, living, and learning that offers a challenge both to easy belief systems and equally easy doubt commitments and calls the reader to find his or her own voice and to search one's own experience for the seeds of faith. The book offers an alternative to the churches and those forms of Christianity that too often produce only carbon copies of its ministers. The various chapters use the medium of story to engage readers, to communicate core values, and to function as a premise for posing hard questions and drawing the readers' attention to salient points.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe core theme is around the idea of reluctant unbelievers; those who want to have faith but cannot seem to bring themselves to believe; those who struggle with doubt; those who may identify as Christian but who privately question or wonder about how the rhetoric of the church relates honestly to the challenges of life. 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Combining commitment to the Christian faith with firm opposition to the Soviet-mandated Marxist-Communist ideology that dominated twentieth-century Czechoslovakia, Spinka strove to present Jan Hus as a medieval figure driven by religious devotion. Motivated by Jewish atheism and a modified form of Marxist analysis, Kaminsky rescued the medieval Hussites from oblivion and political agendas. Fudge explores biography, history, and historiography as an essential intellectual segue between medieval Hussites and modern scholarship. 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