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"With a title like Getting High with God, it shouldn’t have surprised me. But it did. I got high reading this book."
It is one of the most beautifully written books I have read in a long time. I started reading this book soberly as you do, but I was intoxicated by the joys I inhaled on each page, and soon found myself drunk with delight, swooning with every sentient sentence. Rob Schellert has written a book about rediscovering wonder that is a wonder in itself.
Dave Andrewsco-founder of the Waiters Union, author of Not Religion But Love
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"A posture to inhabit, not a concept to master."
Rob Schellert writes the way wonder actually works—a posture to inhabit, not a concept to master. Getting High with God makes you slow down long enough to notice what’s been in front of you the whole time. Schellert is a street-level
mystic, and a good guide.
Randy Woodleyco-founder of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice, author of How Western Christianity Got It Wrong
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"An evocative and playful invitation to wonder—paying attention to the aliveness of God's Spirit."
A beautifully written book where a lot of care has been taken with language that is evocative and playful. It’s an invitation to wonder and curiosity, to pay attention to the aliveness of God’s Spirit and join in with what she is doing. It made me think Rob is a pioneer mystic if there is such a thing!
Jonny BakerDirector of Mission for CMS, co-author of Pioneer Practice and Fringe Dweller
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"A street-level theologian who awakens us to the wonder of the Divine in our neighbors."
Rob Schellert is a poetic mystic painting with words that engage all our senses, a street-level theologian who awakens us to the wonder of the Divine in our neighbors, our neighborhoods, and the soil of the life-shaping geographies where we dwell. He invites us to live as agents of shalom in the magical story of this world, rather than drift through it as transactional consumers. Read this book, and the ordinary street you walk becomes a mystical journey.
JR WoodwardNational Director of the V3 Movement, author of The Scandal of Leadership and Creating a Missional Culture and writer of Faithful Resistance on Substack
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"A beautifully crafted book, full of refreshing imagery and challenging encounters..."
This is a beautifully crafted book, full of refreshing imagery and challenging encounters, the fruit of many years reflecting on experiences of finding God in unexpected places. Rob invites us to keep our eyes open, to be attentive, to recover a sense of wonder, not only in relation to the natural world but also in relation to the image of God in humanity. He invites us to resist the thinness and flatness of imperial culture and join him on his journeys as a street-level mystic.
Stuart Murray-Williamsauthor of The New Anabaptists, Post-Christendom and The Naked Anabaptist
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"What a difference a fresh pair of eyes makes."
What a difference a fresh pair of eyes makes. Rob invites us to trade spiritual numbness for radical amazement, calling us to resist the ‘thinning’ of modern life with its focus on utility and efficiency. Naturally, I enjoyed the urban grit of the raw material. The beautiful stuff happens when we have genuine skin in the game—this chimes with all we at Red Letter Christians hold dear.
Sally Mannco-director of Red Letter Christians UK
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"Reading Getting High with God stirs a longing in me to truly see the world around me again..."
Rob Schellert invites us on a journey into a world where our senses come alive and our curiosity is awakened. So much of modern life fragments and numbs us—yet reading Getting High with God stirs a longing in me to truly see the world around me again, to live fully present, and to dare to believe that God’s creative Spirit meets me right where I am!
Annika SpaldeContemplative Activist, author of A Heart on Fire and co-author of Every Creature a Word of God
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"A fully human perspective to joining Jesus’ mission in the world around us."
In a world of disembodied, technique-driven how-to manuals for successful ministry, Rob brings a fully human perspective to joining Jesus’ mission in the world around us. Rob shares the sights, sounds, and smells of incarnational living that will elevate your sense of amazement at God’s creation and Kingdom. His poetic insights and personal stories invite us into a more WONDER-full spirituality, one much needed today.
Jon Ritnerco-CEO of Communitas International, author of Positively Irritating
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"Sip the pages of this book slowly as if it were a 60-yr-old malt whisky."
Rob’s book Getting High with God is a passionate call to switch heart, mind and soul to a rarely used compelling spiritual frequency and to tune into wonder, participation, aliveness and co-agency with the Divine Presence. Interlacing personal experience, story, and poetic description of life lived far from the Christian mainstream, he reveals a world of colour, surprise and static energy accessible to the attention just beyond our current field of vision.
Sip the pages of this book slowly as if it were a 60-year-old malt whisky. Let it comfort, startle and intoxicate you. Practice its wisdom. It points the way to a life of deeper, more capacious reality.
Tina Hodgettco-creator of Pioneering Parishes and CMS Southwest Hub Facilitator
