When Faith Fails: Finding God in the Shadow of Doubt

by Dominic Done

I wrote this book because you need to know that your doubts aren’t a sign of spiritual collapse but of a faith that is screaming out for substance and truth.

And I want you to know that doubt isn’t a destination but a road to be traveled.

It is my hope that by the end of this book, you’ll see that doubt is not how faith ends but how trust begins.

When God decided to create, he could have said yes to a thousand other possibilities. But he didn’t. He chose this world. He chose you. He chose me. Limits and all. And still, he called it “good.”

You doubt not because you’re a terrible person or because you’re less spiritual than everyone else. You doubt because you’re human.

But this can be toxic for our faith. If all we care about is certainty, we lose the beauty of mystery. If all we value is explanation, we lose the joy of exploration. Deep faith is about progress, not perfection.

Doubt is a natural response to the limitations of our knowledge.

Frederick Buechner wrote, “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

Doubt is essentially neutral; it’s what you do with it that counts.