Finding God in the Waves by Mike Mchargue

Finding God in the Waves by Mike Mchargue

From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, a story of having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science--revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves.

Forty-four percent of Americans will go through a major faith transition in their lives. And now, with church attendance on the decline and increasing cultural independence from Christian social norms, this trend has reached a tipping point: the fastest growing religion in America is none.

Mike McHargue understands the pain of unraveling belief. In Finding God in the Waves, Mike tells the story of how his Evangelical faith dissolved into atheism as he studied the Bible, a crisis that threatened his identity, his friendships, and even his marriage. Years later, Mike was standing on the shores of the Pacific Ocean when a bewildering, seemingly mystical moment motivated him to take another look. But this time, it wasn't theology or scripture that led him back to God--it was science.

Full of insights about the universe, as well as deeply personal reflections on our desire for certainty and meaning, Finding God in the Waves is a vital exploration of the possibility for knowing God in an age of reason, and a signpost for where the practice of faith is headed in a secular age. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray; how fundamentalism affects the psyche; and how God is revealed not only in scripture, but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us.

Mike McHargue, popularly known as Science Mike, is the host or co-host of two podcasts, Ask Science Mike and The Liturgists Podcast, which have a cult-like following among Christians, spiritually curious people, and those who aren't religious. Finding God in the Waves is his first book, and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post, as well as on NPR's All Things Considered. Mike is a sought-after public speaker who has recently made appearances at Google and MIT.

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ISBN 13	9781101906040
ISBN 10	1101906049
Title	Finding God in the Waves
Author	Mike Mchargue
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-09-13
Number of pages	288
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