Roger Dewey

No Delusions Roger Dewey

As a teenager Roger Dewey began to explore the differences between Christianity and Jesus. He put himself outside his comfort zone, where he "didn't even know the rules," to see if God would show up, to see if he could hear the still, small voice of Jesus. On the day of the funeral of Martin Luther King, Roger felt impelled to leave grad school and commit his life to justice for the excluded and combating racism in the church. He "shut up and listened" for the counsel of God. Never really liking prayer, he learned simply to talk with Jesus about everything and to be silent and listen for a response. Yet slowly he realized he was becoming as self-righteous as those he was criticizing. So he took a three month "hermitage," fasting from everything conceptual to listen more effectively. He received again the affirmation of God's unconditional love for all of us, exactly as we are, not as we ought to be. This trilogy of books is the result.