Falling Into Grace takes an honest look at the many things in the Bahá'í Community that can test your faith from the fellow Bahá'ís that make you want to scream to the difficult laws that make you want to give up trying the kinds of tests that you are afraid to share with your friends and even those you are afraid to admit to yourself. It shines a bright light on these tests, and in illuminating them, it reduces their power. This book says "you are not alone," and, even better, "you are not a bad Bahá'í for struggling with these issues." Struggling with these tests is what ennobles us, and sharing our struggles is what helps us create a real feeling of community. As the title suggests, we must be willing to fall before we can be lifted up through grace.

Falling Into Grace has helped over 5,000 Bahá'ís feel "normal" again and reconnect with their communities with more joy and less shame than ever before. It makes a great gift for new Bahá'ís, long-time Bahá'ís, estranged Bahá'ís, and even serious seekers.

Here are some (mostly) unsolicited comments about the book:

I am deeply gratified by the response I have received to my book about becoming and staying a Bahá'í. Even before the book was released, I received a request to reprint the introduction in an interfaith women's newsletter. Since then I have been told it has been used for deepenings, given to entire Assemblies, and "transformed the soul" of even long-time Bahá'ís. One woman said that "the good news is that I loved it. The bad news is that it has caused me to change my life!"

Though many comments have come by phone from people ordering their second batch, a few people have been kind enough to write down their thoughts and send them to me.

Falling Into Grace is selling like hot cakes. House of Worship Bookshop

I love your book! I read it in a day. It moved me to both laughter and tears. As a former English teacher, I know whereof I speak when I say it's well written. I appreciate the clarity of your ideas and your positive and humorous approach to the verities of the Faith and the challenges of being a Believer whether old or new! Karen Sadar Watt Slidell, LA

I just ordered ten copies of your book. It is just excellent! Even for someone who's been a Bahá'í for 35 years like I have, it has some stuff I really hadn't thought about before. I was conscious of this idea of grace & but I know a lot of Bahá'ís don't realize that this is an important component of Bahá'í belief. The word grace appears 1267 times in the Bahá'í writings on MARS! Wendy Scott Ceres, CA

I love your book "Falling Into Grace." I laughed, cried & said "right on!" We have two people studying the Faith here, and when they enroll, this is the book they will get first. Bonnie Samms Overley Hopewell, GA

I just had to write to you to share my thoughts on your recently published book, Few other books by Bahá'í authors have discussed life in the American Bahá'í Community with such candor and compassion....The Bahá'í Community needs such books as these to see itself as it really is rather than as it wishes it were...

Another focus of your book that touched me was your advice to new Bahá'ís struggling to develop their own unique Bahá'í identity in a community full of strong-willed and highly opinionated fellow Bahá'ís. I wonder if there is any American Bahá'í community which doesn't share in this spiritual challenge....

Your book is a very practical guide to navigating the difficulties many of us experience as we work to integrate ourselves into the Bahá'í community....Your insights on shame and guilt, especially in the area of obedience to certain Bahá'í laws, were very helpful to me in that they gave me an understanding of why a long time fellow Bahá'í may have left the Faith...

I hope you can see how much I got out of "Falling Into Grace" and understand the earnestness I feel that it will be read by many, many Bahá'ís who I have no doubt will be helped by it. I deeply believe that before the Bahá'i Community can make a real impact in changing a sorely tried world, it must first see itself as it is and make a start in altering its internal culture into one more fully capable of not only accepting but actively cherishing the vast diversity of the population it hopes to envelop.David Mueller

Perhaps the most moving response I got was a call from a member of a Bahá'í family I have admired for years. He said that the book resolved an issue that his wife had been struggling with for years, and called the book "transformative."