Something Other Than God

How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

By: Jennifer Fulwiler

Narrated by: Jennifer Fulwiler

Jennifer Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a 21st-floor condo where she could sip Sauvignon blanc while watching the sun set behind the hills of Austin.

Raised in a happy, atheist home, Jennifer had the freedom to think for herself and play by her own rules. Yet, a creeping darkness followed her all of her life. Finally, one winter night, it drove her to the edge of her balcony, making her ask, once and for all, why anything mattered. At that moment, everything she knew and believed was shattered.

Asking the unflinching questions about life and death and good and evil led Jennifer to Christianity, the religion she had reviled since she was an awkward, skeptical child growing up in the Bible Belt. Mortified by this turn of events, she hid her quest from everyone except her husband, concealing religious books in opaque bags as if they were porn and locking herself in public bathroom stalls to read the Bible.

Just when Jennifer had a profound epiphany that gave her the courage to convert, she was diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition and the only treatment was directly at odds with the doctrines of her newfound faith.

Something Other Than God is a poignant, profound, and often funny tale of one woman who set out to find the meaning of life and discovered that true happiness sometimes requires losing it all.

©2016 Ignatius Press (P)2019 Ignatius Press

Real and enjoyable

I absolutely enjoyed this book! Learning the story of Jennifer Fulwiler was amazing and so relatable.

Engaging, inspiring & authentic storytelling

I am a cradle Catholic and actively practicing, but realized I often take for granted the profoundness of my faith. This book reinvigorated my love of the Church and sparked in me an eagerness to dig deeper. Between Jen’s authenticity and talented story writing I couldn’t stop listening to this book!

Must read.

I laughed, I cried, I was inspired. This was an incredible story incredibly told.

Absolutely fantastic

I am recommending this book to every devout Catholic, cultural Catholic, and adamant atheist that I know (or at least, whom the HS directs me to). An incredible autobiography that reminded me, with no exaggeration, of Augustine’s Confessions. Jennifer struggled in an earnest way with nearly every modern impediment to faith, yet God still brought her home, providing an example to thousands if they will just listen to/read the book.

FINALLY! thank you for making this available in audible

I love this book, I read it 2 years ago initially as I contemplated converting to Catholicism. As a busy mom it’s hard for me to sit down and read books so I am so glad Jennifer finally made this into an audible version and I am now rereading (or listening) to it. I love her conversation story, as it is so much like mine and I feel like I relate to so much of what she has to say. This is a great book for anyone who is atheist or agnostic and is exploring Catholicism, it doesn’t have the cliche Christian sappiness that some Christian apologetics has that I definitely couldn’t relate to and was turned off by (as an atheist). Jennifer Fulwiler is awesome and I recommend this and her other book!