Becoming Sage

By Michelle Van Loon,

Book cover of Becoming Sage: Cultivating Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality in Midlife

Book description

Why Do We Act Like There Is An Age Restriction on Spiritual Growth?

For the last several decades, Western churches have focused the bulk of their resources on the early stages of discipleship—children’s Sunday school, youth group, college ministry. While these are all important, we have neglected the spiritual growth…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Becoming Sage as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In this wise and welcome field guide, Michelle Van Loon casts a vision for what our lives might look like if we refuse to settle and instead lean into the many challenges, losses, and disappointments of midlife as traction to keep growing. Becoming Sage not only empowers us to flourish today—it infuses us with hope for our future. (Plus, because Michelle is incredibly funny, there’s humor throughout.)

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