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Undone

When Coming Apart Puts You Back Together

by Laura Sumner Truax

The Patheos Book Club features "Undone: When Coming Apart Puts You Back Together," by the Rev. Laura Sumner Truax, about coming to the end of ourselves and finding that God meets us there to help us face our fears, take off our masks and rediscover our true selves. | read more»

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Undone: About the Book and Author

Using her own painful story of divorce as a framework, Truax seeks to show how the worst things in our lives can become the liberation that allows us to strip away our masks and safety blankets, so that we can know our true purpose and value. | read more »

Embracing Our Failure: A Video Q&A with Laura Sumner Truax

"What we're really good at doing as people of faith is trumpeting our successes; what we're bad about is entering into those places of darkness, those places of doubt, those places of failure..." | read more »

Praise for Undone

"If I could bequeath a grand title like 'America's Pastor' on a single individual, it would be Laura Truax." Read what Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, Soon-Cha Rah, and others are saying about Undone. | read more »

Undone: Book Excerpt 1

Whether we are cheating at solitaire, elaborating on the big one that got away or protesting to our friends that "No really, everything's fine!"... the human condition is awash in self-deceptions, large and small. | read more »

Laura Sumner Truax's Blog

Read more from Pastor Laura at her church blog, "One More Thing..." here. | read more »

Undone: Book Excerpt 2

To become new people, we have to be free enough to fail. And so does everyone else. The church that Jesus imagined is one where everybody gets a second chance and a third chance, and fiftieth and hundredth chances. | read more »
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