Commendations for Rut Etheridge's book

God Breathed

I talk a lot of nonsense to myself. With age, though, I’m realizing more deeply how I have to listen to God speak, to his definition of who I am, what I need, and what he has secured for me in Christ. This is a fantastic book for anyone looking for better answers than usual to the questions of our contemporary culture and our own hearts.
—Michael Horton
J. Gresham Machen professor of theology and apologetics, Westminster Seminary, California

This book actually changed my life. The last chapter healed deep things in my heart in relationship to music. I have never heard anyone talk in such a completely pure and holy way about music. This helped me see what music is actually meant for, and I was humbled to a mess of tears that I still cry when I think of it. This book is a very important one. I pray you will receive it in love and find your heart open to reading the Bible with new eyes, like I did. It will bring your heart to life.
—Lacey Sturm
chart-topping hard rock solo artist and author of The Reason, from the Foreword to God Breathed

Whereas many critiques of our culture complain and scold, Etheridge decides instead to explain and counsel—and to do so supremely well. This book, so clearly and lovingly written, is a gift to Reformed theology and the wider church. It has us meditating on things above and rethinking how we live our lives and teach our youth during our years below.
—Russell Haitch
professor of theology and human science, Bethany Theological Seminary

I was very heartened to see someone write a book as brave and honest as this one. Scholarly, engaging, and remarkably accessible, this book takes history seriously and refuses to simplify complex issues. Drawing from early Church fathers through Descartes, Kant, and Nietzsche to purveyors of pop culture and advocates of atheism, Rut addresses contemporary cultural issues from a perspective many would prefer not to consider—but that cannot be ignored.
—Janie Harden Fritz
professor of communication and rhetorical studies, Duquesne University

This is an extraordinary book…Imaginative, engaging, humorous and thoroughly orthodox.
—William Edgar
professor of apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary

Rut Etheridge’s God Breathed is a culturally relevant theological tour de force that speaks directly into the hearts and minds of its readers. This book is heavy in every sense of the word, but if you are willing to mine its depths I can promise you that you will emerge from its pages edified, enriched, and empowered because the One to whom Rut is drawing his readers is the One who speaks the words that are truly spirit and life.
—Anthony T. Selvaggio
author of A Proverbs Driven Life and 7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind

It is difficult to find good books targeted for a young adult reading audience. They are usually dumbed-down, trying too hard to connect, or cheesy. And yet this is often the time of life when people have serious and meaningful questions about the Christian faith. Rut offers us a “Schaeffer-esque” blend of philosophy, theology, and apologetics that connects with the questions about God that Christians and unbelievers alike wrestle with in our current cultural context. He takes his audience seriously and points them to something (Someone) altogether delightful. I will be giving this one away!
—Aimee Byrd
author of No Little Women and Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Etheridge creatively diagnoses the condition of our age and opens the way for us to see that if we truly want to find ourselves we need to read and encounter God’s book. Truly scholarly and truly accessible, God Breathed is the kind of book that brings strong conviction wrapped in genuine love for God and others.
—Vincent Bacote
director, Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College