When doubt becomes an opening . . .
Grace, Sideways reclaims the deeper storyline of Scripture, where unanswered questions and unresolved doubts are not obstacles on the spiritual path but openings—hidden patches of holy ground where we’re likely to see God. Rooted in decades of pastoral experience and lived faith, the book points toward a God who often works in mystery, whose grace sometimes arrives head-on but more often emerges from the side, where we least expect it.
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Jack Reese has spent more than fifty years in ministry, serving as a senior pastor, university professor, seminary dean, campus minister, and community activist. Beyond the church and academy, he has led nonprofit work addressing poverty and racism, creating pathways for personal and economic advancement through education in the humanities. Reese is the author of Grace, Sideways: Field Notes of a Doubting Believer (Eerdmans, 2026), At the Blue Hole: Elegy for a Church on the Edge (Eerdmans 2021), and The Body Broken: Embracing the Peace of Christ in a Fragmented Church (Leafwood, 2005).