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Wednesdays were Pretty Normal: A Boy, Cancer, And God is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Wednesdays were pretty normal,” writes Michael Kelley, looking for a bright spot amidst the chemotherapy routine brought on by his two-year-old son Joshua’s cancer diagnosis. His book of the same name offers much to anyone who’s tired of prescriptive spirituality and would rather acknowledge and work through the difficulties of faith with some transparency. Joshua battled and beat the...

What if our definition of faith is wrong? What if we have been putting faith in our own ability to have faith? What if real faith is not necessarily absent of questions and doubt; what if real faith is more about what we do with doubt than whether we have it? I looked at Joshua a lot in those days. I watched him sleep. I watched him watch videos. I watched him bravely take his medicine and try to adjust to life in a hospital cell. And I dreamed about what might happen in the future. I thought