Let's Be Honest by R. Kirby Godsey Godsey begins with the premises that straightforward and honest talk about faith is hard to come by and that facing up to the mountain of bad religion and then digging out of the debris of bad faith requires patience and courage. This book is about whether faith makes sense and whether we can lay claim to a life of devotion without the nonsense of popular religious rhetoric. Plain talk about our faith is hard to come by.
Theologians often talk above our heads, their language remote and obscure.
Pulpit talk wanders into a different kind of obscurity. There is often a disconnection between the language of preacherly admonition and the ordinary field of discourse of where we live each day. My writing here is driven by the conviction that we can talk and that we need to talk about our faith in ways that are straight-forward and open. This book will challenge you, comfort you, chasten you, confirm you, change you. Young R. Kirby Godsey is president of Mercer University, Macon, Georgia.