A Jumble of Crumpled Papers

A Church Kid’s Journey from Confidence, to Questioning, to Christby Austin Noll  Here is the Church. Here is the Steeple. Open the Doors…Growing up, a life in the church was all Austin Noll ever knew. Born into the Christian faith, his relationship with Jesus was rivaled only by his loyalty to the Church. He lived and breathed the culture surrounding Christianity. For him, church wasn’t a part of his life. It was his life.As a kid, he viewed his thoughts, ideas, and beliefs of God and church as infallible. But as he got older, that once indestructible belief system started showing cracks as he began to witness firsthand the detrimental effects a church lifestyle can have on a person’s faith when God’s power, love, and grace are exchanged for fear and control. Through experiences of artificiality, dishonesty, and shame, Austin found himself somewhere he never thought possible: Unsure of what he believed.In A Jumble of Crumpled Papers, Austin leads readers through the evolution of his sp