God Is Not . . . exposes distortions about God that afflict the church’s vision.

- Rodney Clapp critiques pop culture’s anthem to a slobby, ineffective God who is supposed to be just "one of us."

- D. Stephen Long questions our therapy-fed longing for a useful, nonthreatening deity and argues that God is not "nice."

- Do you ever wonder how exactly we are one nation "under God"? So does Michael Baxter, as he investigates the myth of Christian America.

- Michael Budde suggests that God is not a capitalist. Critiquing the "Christianity incorporated" and "Jesus CEO" mind-set, he explains how the logic of the market is not compatible with the extravagantly openhanded economy of Christianity.

- Is God religious? William T. Cavanaugh discusses what it means to be "behavers" as well as believers.

If God is not an American or a capitalist or "religious," then who is God? D. Brent Laytham concludes with a stirring essay on who God is, calling the church to visibly demonstrate where its primary allegiance truly lies. Audacious without being rude, God Is Not . . . is a lively, necessary, and intelligently reverent read.