Amen: What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief

by Gretta Vosper

For many people, prayer is an essential part of daily life, connecting them with God, a force or the universe, bringing them, among other things, assistance and protection. Others cannot imagine being so dependent upon a concept they can neither justify nor comprehend.

In Amen, Gretta Vosper, United Church minister and author of the controversial bestseller With or Without God, offers us her deeply felt examination of worship beyond conventional prayer, and a call to a new tradition that can survive beyond the beliefs that divide.

368 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 3, 2012

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started out interesting enough. I thought it was going to be a book about the benefits of meditative behaviour - maybe using so-called prayer as a way to focus and reflect. It turned into your basic atheist fare. But it had more emotional intelligence than other standards of the genre, so I'll take that.

[Eleanor Cowan · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Amen' debunks the fictional, dissociated, infantile insistence that we require rescuing and supervision because of our unsavory natures and our desire for guaranteed predictability. Instead, Amen welcomes the adult adventure to grow. Together, we can support each other to tolerate uncertainty, confusion and pain. In other words, we're all we've got. Amen is huge motivation to develop own fullest capacities and to share these with each other in purposeful and compassionate community.
Eleanor Cowan, author of : A History of a Pedophile's Wife: Memoir of a Canadian Teacher and Writer