But our departure from religion is at the very same time a departure from its rich treasures of community, insight, art, practice, organized action and hard lessons. Without religion, we find ourselves isolated, incoherent, and naive on our spiritual journeys.
It’s Really All About God is Samir Selmanovic's personal and moving exploration of a very different way of seeing religion. Selmanovic—who grew up a in a culturally Muslim family in Croatia, converted to Christianity as a soldier in the then Yugoslavian army, and went on to become a Christian pastor in Manhattan and in Southern California—looks at how our ongoing and some-times violent power struggles over who owns God and what God wants for the world and its peoples are serving neither God, humanity, nor our planet. Our religions have become self-serving God management systems. Yet—as Selmanovic contends-change is possible. To learn to live together on this fragile earth, authentic believers of all traditions need to see that it’s really not about their religion —it’s really all about God—God who is about all of us and cannot be owned by any of us.