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Summary: True Confessions of a God Killer
is an unusual and daring allegory inspired by a young woman’s journey
through the need to kill the God she knew to
make space
for a God beyond the cherished notions through which she and many of us
imprison
God. "An absorbing tale of spiritual awakening, True Confessions of a God Killer explores the arduous, sometimes perilous, journey toward self-knowledge that is intimately linked with God-knowledge. Not for the timid or faint of heart, this tale lures the reader off safe paths into utter darkness and then toward tantalizing glimpses of healing light. An unforgettably honest and courageous story." —Marlene Kropf, William B. Oglesby, Jr. Professor of Pastoral Theology, The Graduate Theological Foundation; Professor Emerita of Spiritual Formation and Worship, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary "The invented gods of creeds and institutions that have been handed down need to be killed in order for the real God of mystery and community to emerge. Hedrick challenges the reader to follow a fascinating and intense inward struggle to find and experience this God. She displays unusual depth and understanding as she explores the inner world in this brilliant book." —Don Clymer teaches Spanish and leads cross-cultural seminars for Eastern Mennonite University "With
a winning combination of courage, wit, and depth, Hedrick’s suspenseful
narrative traces the storyteller’s struggles with faith. No
conventional tale, True
Confessions reaches one culmination in the
storyteller’s ‘killing God’—but there is much more to come in this
fresh, ingenious, sometimes dazzling journey away from stifling
conventionality and toward the embrace of holy mystery." —Jeff Gundy, author of Songs
from an Empty Cage; Professor of English, Bluffton University Quote: “But
to my utter horror, I discovered that the coughing had nothing
to do with God being sick and everything to do with God being
strangled! Every
time the Man of God paused in his speaking, I watched God try to
address the group,
but the Man of God grabbed him at the throat, suffocating him in an
effort to
keep him silent while the chains around God’s hands kept him from being
able to
fight back.” —from Chapter 2 Market: All
readers drawn to an unusual and daring allegory inspired by a young
woman’s journey to kill a God who was too small to make space
for
a God much larger. Publisher: Cascadia
Publishing House LLC
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