You picked up this book because you are running on empty, because the mornings come too early and the list never ends, and because you have whispered the same prayer a thousand times while nobody was listening. You love your children, and you are tired in a way that sleep does not fix, and you have started to wonder whether your exhaustion means your faith is failing. Or maybe you are the mother who hides it well, who shows up for everyone and quietly collapses at the end of the day. Whate...

You picked up this book because you have watched the developer world change around you. You have heard the word agent repeated in every conversation and every job posting, but you are not sure what it means or how to build one. Maybe you already use AI coding assistants daily and you are ready to stop typing every command and start building systems that work on their own. You may worry this requires a machine learning degree or months of study. It does not. What you need is a clear, practi...

Every developer carries a graveyard of half built apps. Folders with promising names, GitHub repos with a single commit, and to do apps that never made it past the setup screen. If you have rewritten the same idea 3 times in different frameworks, stayed up until 4 AM wiring a database nobody will ever see, or abandoned a project the moment the interesting part was finished, this book was written for you. It is a humorous, honest, and deeply practical guide to the 47 unfinished apps that li...

There is a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how many hours you worked or how many tasks you completed. It comes not from the effort itself but from the silence that follows it. You put in the work. You show up when no one is asking you to. You make progress that no one can see. And the world does not seem to notice. This silence can feel heavier than any criticism because criticism at least confirms that someone is paying attention. The absence of acknowledgment creates a str...

“The reason you love Jamie (or are about to) is because she says exactly what the rest of us are thinking, but we’re too afraid to upset the apple cart. She is a voice for the outlier, and we’re famished for what she has to say.” --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Of Mess and Moxie and For the LoveWildly popular blogger "Jamie the Very Worst Missionary" delivers a searing, offbeat, often hilarious memoir of spiritual disintegrati...

You've been pushing on the same problem for months, and the harder you push, the more stuck you get. The answer isn't more effort. It's a change in angle. Solve It Sideways teaches you to break free from straight-ahead thinking and find solutions that others miss.Most people solve problems the way they appear, using the same tools they used last time. But when the terrain changes, the old tools stop working. This book gives you a repeatable system for reframing questions, ...

Discover the new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence, lovingly performed by Daniel Jonce Evans, Jeff Chu, Jamie Wright, Sarah Bessey, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Kristen Howerton, Kaitlin Curtice, Amanda Held Opelt, Rev. Neichelle R. Guidry, Ph.D., Candice Marie Benbow, Kathy Khang, the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D., and Amena Brown.Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her th...

There is a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how many hours you worked or how many tasks you completed. It comes not from the effort itself but from the silence that follows it. You put in the work. You show up when no one is asking you to. You make progress that no one can see. And the world does not seem to notice. This silence can feel heavier than any criticism because criticism at least confirms that someone is paying attention. The absence of acknowledgment creates a str...

You've been pushing on the same problem for months, and the harder you push, the more stuck you get. The answer isn't more effort. It's a change in angle. Solve It Sideways teaches you to break free from straight-ahead thinking and find solutions that others miss.Most people solve problems the way they appear, using the same tools they used last time. But when the terrain changes, the old tools stop working. This book gives you a repeatable system for reframing questions, challengi...

After finding Jesus at a suburban megachurch, young Jamie Wright trades in the easy life on the cul-de-sac for the green fields of Costa Rica. There, along with her husband, kids, and the family cat, she intends to serve God and make converts. But she soon loses faith and falls into a funk of cynicism and despair. Fortunately, Knives the cat is there, looking on with just enough disinterest to make her laugh...and dare her to try another way. That other way turns out to be telling the trut...

Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything—their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began to come true, she began to wonder if her religion was really representative of the ‘good news’ she had been taught.She never expected the questions to lead as far as they did when her husba...

Celebrate queer faith and take your rightful place at God’s table with Brandan Robertson, the “TikTok Pastor.” The biblical scholar and social activist also reads this program.For too long, the Bible has been weaponized to exclude LGBTQ+ individuals, despite Jesus’ radical message of inclusion. In Queer & Christian, Brandan Robertson envisions a faith where all are unequivocally embraced.Ostracized at school, Brandan thought he had finally found hi...