With or Without Me: A Conversion

With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis's ire is merely the beginning of an exceptional journey toward belief and God-a journey punctuated by personal losses retold with intense immediacy. “Maybe God is a sadist,” she writes, “a big baby who had a terrible upbringing. If, as Christians claim, God is love, then it's a kind of love I do not understand.” She dares to believe anyway, although her questioning won't let up. She fiercely disman...