Jennifer
Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made
good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a
guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a
twenty-first-floor condo where she could sip sauvignon blanc while
watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin.
Raised
in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for
herself and play by her own rules. Yet a creeping darkness followed
her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the
edge of her balcony, making her ask once and for all why anything
mattered. At that moment everything she knew and believed was
shattered.
Asking
the unflinching questions about life and death, good and evil, led
Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was
an awkward, skeptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified
by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her
husband, concealing religious books in opaque bags as if they were
porn and locking herself in public bathroom stalls to read the Bible.
Just
when Jennifer had a profound epiphany that gave her the courage to
convert, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening medical
condition-and the only treatment was directly at odds with the
doctrines of her new-found faith. Something
other than God is
a poignant, profound and often funny tale of one woman who set out to
find the meaning of life and discovered that true happiness sometimes
requires losing it all.
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