Brant Hansen's
Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers Who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, Or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something is, like the Beatitudes on which its chapters are modeled, the Good News delivered to groups such as those who can't easily access their emotions, those who
struggle with prayer, those who struggle with "imposter syndrome",
skeptics, and those on the Autism Spectrum, among many others. Brant is quite open with his own struggles throughout his book. As a
self-identified introvert, skeptic, and "Aspie" (person diagnosed with
Asperger's Syndrome), he weaves his own story into many chapters. This
is not a memoir per se, but one of the reasons he wants to include and
reassure many of the groups that he does is because he falls into them
himself. He knows the issues well, and his form of self-confession and
exploration allows the reader dealing with similar things to enter into
what he shares more easily.
Blessed Are the Misfits is one of the most important recent books in the past few years for those who don't feel like they fit into traditional church culture or ways of
expressing faith. He helps show that such things don't mean they aren't
or can't be loved by God. In fact, he says, we often see that Jesus
tends to spend more time with the outcasts, the square pegs in the
culture's round hole, who have been deemed unfit, unclean, and unworthy.
As he has been doing for years, Brant wants to show that what was good
news for Jesus' original audience is still good news for many who need
it today.
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I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review here.
