Life Is a Gift. Love Is the Point: How I Lost My Faith, Killed My Church, Saved My Life, and Found My Soul - Paperback

by Ryan Meeks (Author)

This is for the ones who stayed too long. Who kept trying to make it work, kept following the rules, kept saying the words. Until the story that once held their lives together finally came apart.

It's for the ones who are still quietly unraveling, the ones who can't keep pretending to believe but aren't sure who they'll be if they stop.

It's for those learning to trust their own experience again, who long to live from wonder rather than fear, who believe that love lies at the center of it all and are willing to follow that thread no matter where it leads.

For years, Ryan Meeks was a symbol of evangelical success, preaching certainty and building a system he would later dismantle piece by piece. Underneath the certainty was a growing fracture, one that started with honesty and was driven by love. What followed was the collapse of a church, the loss of faith, a cancer diagnosis-and the rediscovery of a life grounded in presence rather than performance.

Weaving philosophy, theology, personal essay, dark humor, and lived experience, Meeks offers a vision of embodied spirituality that isn't afraid of the messy miracle of being human.

Because even after the old frameworks fall, life remains.

Sacred anyway.