Book Description

Still God is a 28,500-word spiritual parable for readers who cannot go back to the God they were taught to believe in — but are not ready to stop looking.

The story follows an unnamed traveler who has always believed in a hands-on God: one who opens and closes doors, answers prayers, and manages the details of life. When that understanding breaks against the silence of real life — unanswered prayers, undeserved suffering, the quiet that follows grief — the traveler returns to the Genesis creation story and notices something they had never seen: God creates, then rests. After that, the voice that once thundered becomes strangely still.

Haunted by the question of whether God is absent or simply still, the traveler begins to walk.

Through a series of ordinary encounters — a park ranger who speaks of ripples and balance, a librarian who reads Emerson aloud, a pastor who points to the "still small voice," a stranger on a bench who speaks of freedom and responsibility, a woman in a café who reframes prayer as resting in what holds us, a gardener who links clarity to healing, and an elderly neighbor who serves tea and speaks of death as return — the traveler is led toward a discovery they did not expect.

Three simple tokens emerge as anchors: a stone for stillness, a sprig of rosemary for clarity, and a cup for return. Together they trace the arc of a human life — from its emergence out of mystery, through its unfolding with responsibility, to its final return into the greater whole.

Told with gentleness and without dogma, Still God invites readers who are restless with old answers to walk alongside the narrator and listen for a God who may be closer than they think.

Still God is Book One of the Still Trilogy. The journey continues in Still Christ and Still Divine.

This book is for you if…

• You've prayed without hearing an answer and wondered what that means

• You're deconstructing a faith built on a transactional, "fix-it" God

• You feel drawn to contemplative spirituality but are wary of dogma

• You want a book you can read in a weekend and live with for years

• You've been hurt by easy answers and are ready for a different kind of quiet

Comparable Titles

Readers of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist, The Shack, and the contemplative works of Richard Rohr, Parker Palmer, and Anne Lamott will find themselves at home in these pages.

Publication

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