For all its beneficial advances, our secular age has also weakened some people s ties to religious belief and affiliation. Latter-day Saints have not been immune to this trend. In recent years, many faithful Church members have encountered challenging aspects of Church history, belief, or practice. Feeling isolated, alienated, or misled, some struggle to stay. Some simply leave. Many search for a reliable and faithful place to work through their questions. The abundance of information online can make them feel frustrated. Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt offers people who struggle with questions and people who love those who struggle practical ways to stay planted in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Rather than attempting to answer every possible question or doubt, Planted presents an empathetic, practical, and candid dialog about the relationship of doubt and faith.
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A useful book for all Latter-day Saints, both those who find themselves questioning or drifting from the faith and those who love them. I found Mason's chapter on participating in church even when questioning (or after arriving at views some wouldn't consider orthodox) most helpful. Otherwise I was a little disappointed, but only because I so loved Restoration, a book by the same author that moves past the basic framework for faith reconstruction he gives here and imagines what a more expansive and transformative faith (and church) might look like.