“A patient, thoughtful tour… a generous book to believers and skeptics alike.”
Kelsey Osgood — Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize, Finalist Selector
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“What if we’ve been looking at faith all wrong? What if faith is not a mere byproduct of cultural factors, but an echo resounding from eternity?”
Why Faith Isn’t a Leap but a Series of Staggers from One Safe Place to Another
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“A compelling case for faith for a new generation… the perfect book to give to a friend struggling in their Christian faith or a skeptic questioning its veracity.” Lee Strobel — New York Times Bestselling Author, The Case for Christ
Born in Seoul, raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A pastor, a scholar, an advocate for the unseen. Sam D. Kim has never separated the life of the mind from the life of faith.
Sam D. Kim is a Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, where his research centers on the inequities surrounding health, immigration, and social policy. Concurrently, he is a Yale-Hastings Scholar at The Hastings Center — one of the world’s foremost bioethics institutes — researching professional burnout in academic medicine and ecumenical clergy.
A recipient of the Lifelong Learning Fellowship at Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Medicine, co-awarded by the John Templeton Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sam works to close the gap between faith and science that has fractured modern religious life.
He holds a doctorate in ethical leadership from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and has also studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Alliance Theological Seminary. He writes for Christianity Today, Church Leaders, and Seminary Now, and teaches on the YouVersion Bible App.
He lives in New York City with his wife Lydia and their two sons.
“Eschews platitudes in favor of a multilayered conversation about faith… What sets Kim’s work apart from other works of spirituality is its depth, intelligence, and flair.”
“A nuanced, if not comprehensive, call for revitalization of Christianity’s core messages… accessible writing with pop-culture references, balances traditional theology with openness, suitable for book clubs.”
Kirkus Reviews — Verdict: GET IT“Faith isn’t always linear but is instead sinuous… Kim writes with the care of a pastor, the rigor of a researcher, and the wit of someone who has genuinely wrestled with God and lived to tell about it.”
Ron Charles — The Washington PostAt the intersection of faith, bioethics, and the urgent questions of modern life.
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