Book Review: “Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amid Doubts and Big Questions” by Travis Dickinson

Wandering Toward God: Finding Faith Amid Doubts and Big Questions by Travis Dickinson is a look at how to navigate doubts on one’s journey of faith.

For full disclosure, as a reader I should note that I’ve been going through a journey of doubts myself. I looked forward to seeing how Dickinson might approach this while also being somewhat wary of my own experience with Christian apologetics largely dealing with certainty rather than acknowledging the depths of difficulties with faith. While reading this book, I found my concerns were mostly assuaged. Dickinson does an admirable job offering a sympathetic hand to those who have serious doubts. Chapters are dedicated to both figuring out what kind of doubts one might have (are they severe enough to be a challenge to Christianity in toto or are they more incidental, for example–and how to navigate that as well) and how to pursue resources, answers, or even just some kind of comfortable area where one lives alongside and with doubt.

Dickinson does dive into a couple of apologetic-level questions, exploring some of the common questions that come up in Christians’ journey. I found this part less helpful, because having studied apologetics myself, the answers Dickinson is able to offer in such small sections are very basic. That’s not necessarily a knock on the book as a whole, but for those who have already done some questioning and who find problems with some of the simpler answers, these sections will be a rehash. On the flip side, Dickinson’s own notion of how to deal with doubts as they arise tend to be very useful and less on the trite answer side.

Wandering Toward God was a worthy introductory read for thinking about doubts in one’s faith life. I recommend it, though I also want something deeper myself.

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