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The Fog of Faith: Surviving My Impotent God Paperback – May 25, 2017

by Dr. Leona Stucky (Author)
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Leona is cast into bewildering disgrace and poverty—with a baby, a violent husband, and shattered faith. She hacks through the bones of her Mennonite naïveté to confront harsh realities. This riveting and morally unflinching memoir, recommended by MS Magazine, delivers intense suspense, humor and unusual wisdom.
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    May 25, 2017
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The Fog of Faith adds to the cultural narrative unspooling before us of women's life trajectories having been sent off-course by the evil acts of men... Stucky raises important questions about how people keep or lose their faith in God when life brings intense suffering.
-Mennonite World Review

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The Reverend Doctor Leona Stucky has a thriving psychotherapy practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When not working, she enjoys New Mexico landscapes, walking and driving in the open expanse, and exploring nature here and around the world with friends and family. Being a grandmother is one of the highlights of her life; she adores playing with the little ones and watching their relational capacities unfold. She revels in their joy and treasures moments together as they grow. Dr. Stucky first received a degree in psychology and philosophy from Boston College, graduating summa cum laude, before plunging into seminary, first at Andover Newton Theological School and then at Eden Theological Seminary. She earned a doctorate from Southern Methodist University with honors, and a Diplomate certificate from the American Association of Pastoral Counselors-their highest credential-for teaching, supervising, and offering therapy services. She currently has standing as a Unitarian Universalist community minister. She values the UU principles that affirm loving engagement without requiring members to believe in God or bend to religious creeds. After completing her formal education, she helped develop a post-graduate training center, The Southwest Institute for Religion and Psychotherapy. Her understanding of psychodynamic theory as well as other therapeutic approaches continued to blossom as she taught them to others. She has led workshops for clinicians in a number of states and several countries. She is a creative thinker and a life-long learner. She enjoys sharing insights with clients, students, friends, family, and fellow professionals-and now with you.

Mary and her husband Andrew own and operate MediaNeighbours, a successful publishing services company. Chiefly working with authors, artists, and nonprofits, MediaNeighbours provides writing and editing, design and production, and marketing and promotional assistance to all who want to create books. Knowledgeable in both print and digital prepress processes, they specialize in memoirs, self-help, art books, and other books with distinct niche marketing potential. Mary and Andrew care about their clients' stories, and the books produced from these stories have garnered National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA), the Eric Hoffer Award, the Montaigne Medal, the Global EBook Awards, and the 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading Awards. An award-winning writer herself, Mary is passionate about how words are used. As a veteran book editor with more than twenty-five years of experience, Mary knows industry standards and ensures that manuscripts are professional in every aspect. With calm, insightful, supportive guidance, she lends wings to an author's prose and concepts. And her training in layout and design stretches back to the days when Adobe InDesign was PageMaker.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prairie World Press (May 25, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 099864742X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0998647425
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.77 x 8.5 inches
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She fit bucking bales into God’s plan, but bucking fear left this Mennonite farm teen begging and now, after 30 years as a professional psychotherapist, Dr. Leona Stucky narrates her unflinching faith-and-violence dilemma in a riveting memoir, The Fog of Faith: Surviving My Impotent God, which spares neither God nor violence against women and has been recommended by MS Magazine.

Dr. Stucky first received a degree in psychology and philosophy from Boston College, graduating summa cum laude, before plunging into seminary, first at Andover Newton Theological School and then at Eden Theological Seminary. She earned a doctorate from Southern Methodist University with honors, and a Diplomate certificate from the American Association of Pastoral Counselors—their highest credential—for teaching, supervising, and offering therapy services. She currently has standing as a Unitarian Universalist community minister.

These professional explorations might have quieted her mind, but the areas where integration seemed impossible became mental sand kernels disrupting many intellectual resting places. Being fiercely honest in confronting contradictions, she honed her wisdom, gained unusual insights, and enjoyed a professional and personal journey that could only be shared by telling the whole story. After numerous failed attempts, Dr, Stucky finally completed The Fog of Faith: Surviving My Impotent God.

The provocative title aptly indicates the unflinching moral dilemmas she reveals. The gripping story reads like a real-life thriller that readers can’t put down. Still, each step grounds itself in nuanced networks of passion, relational complexities, cultural and religious dilemmas, circumscribed choices bound by woman’s poverty, persistent violence, and an untamable resilient desire to redeem herself with or without God.

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Kathleen Christison
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Writing, Compelling Story
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017
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This is no ordinary memoir. It is no ordinary book, and this is no ordinary woman. Leona Stucky faced an immense trauma--and a resulting ongoing, years-long fear--that most people would not have been able to endure without succumbing to crippling psychological damage. I know Stucky, not well but as the friend of a friend, and she is a very well put together, soft-spoken, lovely and loving person. And now I know her to be a remarkably courageous person.

Her book is so compellingly written that adulatory words almost fail me. I didn't particularly want to read it, but the writing and the story grabbed me from the beginning, and I constantly wanted to get back to it whenever I had to put it down. Stucky describes her large, close-knit family and its Kansas farm life in a beautiful descriptive style that brings the reader right onto the farm and inside her initially happy life. Later, as her abusive boyfriend and her fear enter the story, her style changes to show this, through a faster, almost suspenseful pace that clearly conveys her trauma. She makes you need to know what comes next and, because she's brought you into her story, how her life can possibly go on. Unbelievably, the trauma of the abuse she faced is not the only significant tragedy in Stucky's life.
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Santa Fe Ed
5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling reading
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2018
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How does a person who probably should have been dead 16, or 18, or 22 years old, keep living? How does a person who should have been a welfare mother work to obtain multiple advanced degrees? How does a woman who had a hand held upon her mouth and a knife held at her throat not merely survive but thrive? This is part the incredible journey of Dr. Leona Stucky. The other part is her long wrestling match with god. I was astonished and inspired by by this incredible true tale of an extraordinary woman. Moreover, in this second decade of the 21st Century, it is relevant and timely reading. Please read it. You will sometimes want to put it down and rest, but you will continue because Dr. Stucky compels you to do so.
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Joanne K. Tucker
5.0 out of 5 stars A compelling read!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017
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I had an opportunity to read "The Fog of Faith" in an early draft and again now as a published book. While I was impressed with my initial reading, I'm an even bigger fan now. Leona Stucky-Abbott has given us an outstanding personal picture of a joyful childhood interrupted by a domestic violence relationship. We learn how challenging it is to become free of an extremely abusive nindiciual and the resiliency of Leona in rebuilding her life. She is determined to get an education and she does. We are also given an intimate insight into her questioning of traditional faith. This is an important read for everyone in the field of domestic abuse. It is also a fast and compelling read and very hard to put the book down!! Thank you Leona for sharing so openly and honestly.
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Dr. Kitty Fallon
5.0 out of 5 stars I've read it twice and each time did not want to put it down! Powerful journey shared with eloquence and grace!
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017
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This is a powerful story of bush whacking through life's complexities when childhood faith lessons offer no solace for life's brutalities. I recommend this book highly for bibliotherapy for individuals healing from sexual trauma and domestic violence. Leona surpassed surviving and is courageously putting herself out there to share her story. Her perspective and wisdom should be highly sought out by faith communities wanting to better serve their followers, domestic violence advocates, therapists, counselor educators and future counselors, and any person balancing a faith that may not sufficiently speak to their life journeys. May Leona's daring vulnerability be a light to each of us who live bravely with our unique experiences!
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Eni
5.0 out of 5 stars Harrowing & inspiring!
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018
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What a formidable, extraordinary, and inspiring journey for a girl (with those experiences) to grow to be stronger, even more compassionate, and the accomplished psychotherapist that she is today! It makes me want to hear more of her life! She has an amazing talent for putting thoughts into words, which she now also uses to help us clients/patients to communicate and heal.
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Carla Stucky Shuck
5.0 out of 5 stars Courage beyond measure!
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017
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I am not an unbiased reviewer because this true story was written by my amazingly brave Mom who wrote about her young journey of faith, violence, searching, hope and love. Beautifully written story of courage beyond measure and the endurance of love. Even knowing this story in a most personal way, I still find myself holding my breath while reading and hoping that I can prevent the inevitable. My hero, one of my sister's many brave choices was to become my mother - that will make sense when you read the book. It is a transformative journey and book that will resonate with all.
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Sonpoppie
3.0 out of 5 stars A brave and beautiful story of love and faith
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017
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I enjoyed reading Leona's journey through the struggles of love and faith. Her childhood on the farm, her relationship with her wonderful dad, the doubts and blind acceptance of her faith are all rendered with detail and clarity. The awful relationship with Ron, the struggle for selfhood, the rising consciousness of feminism are themes. There are times I felt a professional editor could have enhanced the story. There are long dialogues that do little to move the story forward, and monologues that cause one's eyes to glaze over.
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TDurr
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read! What an amazing story of heroism in the face of domestic violence
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017
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This is a story of true heroism in the face of domestic violence at a time when it was socially accepted to ignore victims of domestic violence.
There was a point when I was reading this that I wanted to scream at a cop that could have stopped everything in it tracks before it got any worst.... but he failed her. In her early life many failed her, but to me this is more about how she not only survived but also thrived against all odds. This book will change your prospective on life with domestic violence.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Thoughtful and real
Reviewed in Canada on August 13, 2017
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Excellent! Thoughtful and real, challenges prejudice and creates space for wisdom. A quick read that will make you think. Highly recommended!
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