Stubborn Grace

With unflinching honesty and humor in the vein of Cheryl Strayed and David Sedaris but a raw tenderness all her own, Kate Landis chronicles the hardest parts of her young adulthood as well as her poignant journey to faith and community.Kate Landis grew up in the American Baptist Churchthe child of a music director and a deaconuntil she left the church in her late teens after surviving major depression and a handful of suicide attempts. She became an activist, feminist, punk, and self-described rabble rouser. And through activism she found a spiritual community with justice at its core and a faith that could hold it allher mental illness, her fire, her spunk, and all of her questionsa loving, stubborn grace.