When Faith Disappoints

Lisa Fields compassionately confronts the brokenness and failure of the human condition through the lens of faith, yet brilliantly offers hope for all who seek to practice their faith without the cruel dogma nurtured by Western culture. A worthy addition to your personal library.

Few leaders have made Christian apologetics as accessible to common people as Lisa Fields. In When Faith Disappoints, she carefully invites those struggling with their faith to question, reconsider, and heal and see God more clearly. This is the perfect book if you, a loved one, or a friend have been disappointed by faith.

In When Faith Disappoints, Lisa Fields gives us permission to wrestle with our questions about God and faith. Her raw, transparent, and vulnerable storytelling is disarming and her hope-filled perspective compelling. A much-needed book for our times.

Lisa Fields’s compelling and compassionate book, When Faith Disappoints, offers fresh and convicting insight on questions that we all struggle with, while at the same time challenges the reader to pay closer attention to how others are hurting. With transparency and tenderness, Fields gives voice to her own experiences of disappointment and doubt in a way that lets the reader feel seen and understood, and then she gifts us with something better than the easy answers that we want to hear—she hands us tangible hope that we need in order to heal. Reading this book is like receiving a deep-tissue massage: Fields finds the knots and applies truth to specific pain points in a way that leaves you really feeling it. But it is a good kind of ache, and one day soon, you’ll move more freely because of it.

Lisa Fields’s powerful debut book confronts the realities of suffering and injustice, while firmly rooting her narrative in the faith that heals and empowers. A healing and transformative read that will inspire and encourage you through adversity.