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    Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life
    Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life
    Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life
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    Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life

    By Joan Ball

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    As a thirty-seven-year-old, highly skeptical, deeply rational woman, Joan had it all: loving family, extravagant home, a high-profile career, even personal contentment. So Joan was more surprised than anyone when she was relieved in an instant from the luxury of spiritual doubt and compelled to realign her life around practices of faith--about which she was a novice. With an unexplainable desire to pursue whatever God had for her at whatever cost was called for, Joan left her high-salary profession, sold her home and all her furniture (with her husband’s support), and started life from a blank slate. Finally realizing that she had been flirting with faith since she was a young teen, Joan fell in love with the God who had been pursuing her.

    Joan candidly shares the story of her radical life change as she moved from atheist, to agnostic in addiction recovery, to the unexpected moment when she was “struck” Christian. As Joan lets go of control and convention, her skepticism is gradually replaced with a realization that embracing her new faith with radical abandon led to a far more mysterious and countercultural lifestyle than she’d ever imagined.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoward Books
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9781439155363
    Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life
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    Joan Ball

    Joan Ball spent more than 15 years in the public relations business before making the transition from the boardroom to the classroom in 2007. She currently teaches marketing in the Tobin School of Business at St. John’s University in Queens, NY and writes for Beliefnet.com. A media relations expert, she has been the corporate spokesperson for a variety of large and mid-sized professional services firms. Central to her story is the extent to which she allowed her career and the money, prestige and possessions that came with it to overshadow the things that were most important in life. In Flirting with Faith, she shares with bold candor both her challenges and successes—from single motherhood, to alcohol addiction to unbalanced priorities in the midst of apparent accomplishment—with a transparency and openness that will be evident to even the most skeptical reader.  She and her husband Martin live in suburban New York with their son Ian. Her adult children, Kelsey (20) and Andrew (21) are undergraduate students elsewhere in New York.   

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      A honest description of ex-skeptic , which I can relate . These same attitudes and mindsets is what I have , when I thought ‘ let’s experience how the world thinks , how they feel and what their paradigms are ‘. So I suspended my faith based thinking and got onto this. To be honest I have seen and experienced , there is no liberty , no life in these life . Jesus way is truth . God is truth . He is great

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