Losing My Religion: A Memoir of Faith and Finding

After four years of college and six years in seminary William Mills was ready for a parish--or so he thought. He didnt realize much of his time would be endless discussions about bagels and coffee digging ditches and parking lot condom patrols. For six years community life was just humming along. Then disaster struck. Mills life came crashing down when nearly a third of his congregation left in a public power play causing him to question his faith in himself in the church and in God. Marva Dawn a noted writer of spirituality and ministry said that being a pastor is like being peppered with popcorn: after a while you just get tired of it pack your bags and move on. However as Mills himself says “I was either too stubborn or stupid so I stayed.” Losing My Religion is about the ups and downs ins and outs choices and challenges of being a pastor in the twenty-first-century church. Its also about the redemptive power of community life and finding healing and wholeness in a broken world.