Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

It’s hard to leave a faith that has raised us. Maybe even harder to stay. But what can feel impossible is living in the tension. Living with a faith that evolves.

Sarah Bessey is an expert at faithfully stumbling forward. As a New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Evolving Faith, the foremost community for progressive Christians, she has been trusted by thousands of people to pursue a reconstruction of faith centered on compassion, truth, and inclusion. Bessey has found a deeply underserved and underestimated remnant in the wilderness of Christianity, who are still devoted to Jesus, deeply rooted in the Gospel, fascinated with Scripture, and committed to reimagining their faith.

Field Notes for the Wilderness guides the reader through multiple principles to live by for an evolving faith, including:

Practicing wonder and curiosity as spiritual disciplinesMothering ourselves with compassion and empathyMaking space for lament and righteous rageHow to find good spiritual teachersDiscovering what we are for in this life, and moving in that direction