I just want to let you know that I recently read your Book, “So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey.” Truly, it was an unexpected journey, but yet so liberating!!! I thank God for your book. I went to church a couple of Sunday’s ago and towards the end a weird feeling came over me. The best way I can describe it — you know when have eaten something that your stomach doesn’t agree with. Well, I ate something bad. The message was presumptous and condescending. I felt like a child. As I left, I said I would never attend another church. Directly, afterwards, I KID YOU NOT, I went to Barnes and Noble and was led to your book. I went to a park and read it intently and it touched me to tears. Tears of joy. I felt so free and I am, formerly, a minister’s wife, Sunday School teacher, Youth director, Director of Christian Education and a soprano choir member. It is great to know that I am not alone and that I can share God’s love without participating in organized religion that was so unfilling and to know that I will not go to hell (smile). May God continue to bless you both. Please write, I would love to hear more about what you are doing? I am at a standstill in my life and need someone like “John” to help me to unfold my calling and purpose. I would prefer to think of him as “Jesus.” I know this is going to sound even stranger, but as I was reading your book, I was sitting under a tree in the shade and the sun kept moving and I would get up and move my blanket, until I was in the center of two trees. I believe I moved two or three times. I know it sounds weird, but I interpreted it to mean for me to follow the Son. The Son, being Jesus Christ. Jesus, calls us a friend, and He goes by his first name, and He walked among the people and was not confined by the walls of the church. For He was and is the Church. Please pray for me as I, for you. In Christ, Shirley.