Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
A Restless Faith
Keith Mascord · 2016
74/100
👍 Worth It
Mascord writes with genuine warmth and intellectual honesty about a journey many readers have quietly taken but rarely seen reflected back at them — the passage from rigid fundamentalism toward a questioning but committed faith. The engagement with Plantinga and the Noah narrative gives it more theological grounding than most faith-deconstruction memoirs, and the non-polemical tone means it doesn't feel like an attack on the people or communities it describes. Best suited to readers who already know this road.
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⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Challenges biblical inerrancy and the historical literalness of the Noah Flood narrative; conservative evangelical or fundamentalist readers may find theological conclusions difficult. We still scored it 74; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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