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From the bestselling author of Holy Hot Mess, a laugh-out-loud look at what happens when life goes a direction we didn't expect and we are forced to reconsider the beliefs, assumptions, and stories that have always steered our course. Mary Katherine Backstrom grew up the most basic of all youth group kids-pH level 14-and her faith only grew as she led youth ministry, served as a missionary, and went on to become a bestselling Christian author. She knew all the practiced, perfect Sunday school answers and was driving happily down the straight and narrow, until one day her young son asked a simple question: will my Jewish best friend go to hell?
In the months and years that followed, that single question continued to snowball. MK challenged and reconsidered every part of the faith she'd been raised to accept so completely.
Not That Wheel, Jesus! is Mary Katherine's hilarious journey from certainty to doubt to going nuclear on the socials ("it was my heresy era"), and then of slowly and painfully finding her way back to a different, less defined faith.
It's the heartfelt and achingly honest story of a spirituality that went off the road and crashed and burned in spectacular fashion, right before God and everybody. And then, slowly, through grace and plenty of therapy, grew richer and deeper than she ever could have imagined.
About the author
Mary Katherine Backstrom (MK) is an award-winning blogger who has made a name for herself on social media as a parenting and faith writer. She has two Iris awards (Today Show and Romper Magazine, Parent Blogger of the Year). MK is regularly published on large websites, such as Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, That's Inappropriate, Today Parents, Love What Matters, and Upworthy. She is one of the developers of MOPS International's video curriculum for 2020 and is a regular speaker for MOPS (and church groups) in the southeast. MK is a breast cancer survivor, who is married with two children, living in Fort Meyers, Florida.
