McHargue - Finding God in the waves: how I lost my faith and found it again through science

Mike McHargue tells you about the science of everything in a way that is both interesting and immediately applicable. In Finding God in the Waves, he employs this gift on a whole new scale by explaining the science of how to walk with Godespecially for those who doubt God is real at all.

Donald Miller, bestselling author of Scary Close and Blue Like Jazz

One of the most original and moving accounts of faith I have read in recent years. Anyone who has tussled with doubtand who hasnt?should read this book.

Tanya Luhrmann, professor of anthropology, Stanford University, and author of When God Talks Back

More than your typical science vs. faith book, Finding God in the Waves is a deeply engrossing story about the experience of doubt, the thrill of discovery, and what it means to be human. An essential, unprecedented read on the role contemplation plays in how we can know God, even in an age of skepticism.

Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation

Its so rare to find a book that is both this important and this much fun to read. With this funny, intelligent, and disarmingly honest work, Mike McHargue has established himself as one of the most thoughtful and necessary Christian voices of our time.

Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for Sunday and A Year of Biblical Womanhood

No one merges science and faith, mystery and reason better than Science Mike.

Pete Holmes, comedian and star of the HBO comedy Crashing

A vulnerable, relentlessly logical account of the deconstruction and reconstruction of faith thats sure to challenge skeptics and believers alike. McHargues story will resonate with anyone whos ever doubted, been the odd one out, or struggled to make sense of their faith.

Matthew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian and executive director of the Reformation Project

Unlike any other book Ive read. Rather than placing facts and meaning at odds, Mike invites us into the freedom of both.

Sarah Bessey, author of Out of Sorts and Jesus Feminist

Faith and doubt exist more closely than many of us acknowledge. In Finding God in the Waves, it feels as if Mike is sitting at a table, inviting the reader to bring questions and fears to a conversation about how our doubts can actually bring us closer to God and not further apart. The message of hope and beauty in this book is for all of us: the believers and the doubters, the nerds and the creatives, the skeptics and the faithful.

Amena Brown, spoken-word poet and author of Breaking Old Rhythms: Answering the Call of a Creative God

This is the best book on navigating the tension between science and faith that Ive ever come across. For any who desire to have some sort of faith or spiritual practice, but who also love science and dont know how to navigate the apparent conflicting claims of both, Finding God in the Waves may be one of the most important books that they will ever read.

Michael Gungor, musician and author of The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse

This is the most honest, challenging, and insightful book on reclaiming a lost faith that Ive ever readutterly unique and unexpected. I couldnt put it down.

Peter Enns, author of The Sin of Certainty

A rare and needed voice, McHargue reminds us that science and faith are not opposites, but allies. Brimming with honesty, vulnerability, and a deep appreciation for the mysteries of the universe we inhabit, Finding God in the Waves will mean so much to so many.

Ryan ONeal, Sleeping At Last

For Jenny and Mom, who held out a candle when I was in the dark.

For Madison and Macey, who already have questions on their own journeys with God.

And for my dearly departed granddadthe first to hear these words in our last afternoon together. After hearing them, he told me for the first time about his own doubts, paused for a moment, and then said, Dont tell your grandmama.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg, theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics

You have to feel the ovens fire.

Rumi

The other day Mike and I were chatting on the phone like we do from time to timeMike in Florida, me in Los Angeles. I dont remember what we were talking about, but I remember there was this moment in the conversation when I said something and then the line went quietthe kind of quiet that makes you think the call has been dropped. But just when I was about to ask