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"Where is God when your loved ones get cancer? With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis's frustration is merely the beginning of a tortuous journey toward faith. Esther Maria Magnis knows believing in God is anything but easy, because he allows people to suffer"--
About the author
Esther Maria Magnis, a German writer, was born
in 1980. She studied comparative religion and history in Germany and Italy and
has worked as a journalist. She now lives and works in southwestern Germany.
Summary
With or Without Me is a book for everyone – believer or unbeliever, Christian or atheist– who refuses to surrender to the idea that there are easy answers to the big questions in life.
Doubt about God’s goodness in the face of grief is natural. With or Without Me is one woman’s unsparing and eloquent memoir about the inadequacy of religion and philosophy to answer her emotional pain. Yet Esther Maria Magnis’s rejection of God is merely the beginning of a tortuous journey back to faith – one punctuated by personal losses retold with bluntness and immediacy.
Magnis knows believing in God is anything but easy. Because he allows people to suffer. Because he’s invisible. And silent.
“A must read for anyone who has ever pondered the meaning of life” – Lydia S. Dugdale, Author of The Lost Art of Dying
Foreword
- National publicity campaign with coverage expected from On Being, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and others.
- Podcast tour with the German-based English-speaking author. Author speaking tour at conferences and bookstores in Spring of 2022.
- Featured in Plough Quarterly, circulation 15,000, with 60,000 social media followers and 100,000 email subscribers.
- Giveaways on LibraryThing, GoodReads, and Amazon.
- Extensive social media advertising campaign.
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"There are not many who dare to speak of God as unabashedly as Esther Maria Magnis." —Public Forum
