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Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is a pastor, speaker and the author of "The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry" and "Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture." Her next book, "Confessions of an Amateur Saint: The Christian Leader’s Journey from Self-Suffiency to Reliance on God" will release October, 2024. Mandy and her husband, a New Testament professor, live in the parsonage where the teapot is always warm. ...more

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	Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture by Mandy Smith (Goodreads Author), Walter Brueggemann (Foreword) 4.26 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry by Mandy Smith (Goodreads Author), David Hansen (Foreword) 4.28 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of an Amateur Saint: The Christian Leader's Journey from Self-Sufficiency to Reliance on God 4.61 avg rating — 49 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making a Mess and Meeting God: Unruly Ideas and Everyday Experiments for Worship 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Is Too Important to Be Taken Seriously: Kite-Flying Lessons from Ecclesiastes 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All of life is a confession of our doctrine.”
― Mandy Smith, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture

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“God does big things. To us they seem very small. I’m learning not to despise the day of small things.”
― Mandy Smith, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture

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“I came to see that no Christian leadership can grow from the demanding of rights. And”
― Mandy Smith, The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

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