It's Not About You. It's All About You.: How We Made Faith About Ourselves

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Somewhere along the way, we turned the faith of martyrs into a massage chair.

We shop for churches the way we shop for mattresses — firmness, parking, cupholders. We keep our Bible-reading streak the way we keep our step count. Brick by comfortable brick, we have built a Christianity with all the sharp corners sanded off and a very nice coat of paint.

It's Not About You. It's All About You. is a warm, funny, uncomfortably accurate look at how we made faith into a self-improvement project — and the far better news hiding underneath. With the help of George and Mendy of the Padded Pew (who are, it turns out, all of us) and one Dr. Skylor Brandt of the Holy Experience™ Megaplex — Bluetooth sandals, priority baptism scheduling, an emotional support peacock — it traces the soul-stroking instinct from the megachurch stage to the prayer app that tells you exactly what you want to hear.

But this isn't a book that wags its finger. It's one that finally lets you put something down. Because the exhausting secret of modern faith is that we made ourselves the point — and we were never strong enough to carry it.

It's not about you.

And that is the best news you've ever been given.