Pleasant surprise

I approach The book not knowing that Matt Walsh was a radical Christian and full of scriptural knowledge. I was looking for a spiritual books that will shake me out of my complacency in my walk with Christ but I didn’t expect Matt Walsh to be the one delivering this book. You will not regret buying this book if you are Christian.

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really enjoyed

really enjoyed this book. Matt is correct in what he says in this book highly recommended

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Phenomenal, this could be a series of superb sermons.

A life-changing book, thank God it exists! I couldn't put it down. I'm a big fan of Matt Walsh's show and after listening to this book, I'm an even bigger fan. The book reads as if you're actually listening to him speak in one of his thought pieces of the day, it's got Matt Walsh all over it. It's incredibly deep and thoughtful, incisive, and despite the name, very optimistic and inspiring in the end. Listen to the very end. As for me, I'll be listening to it again and again, especially on those Sundays when the actual church homily is too vanilla for my taste. Because Matt Walsh is many things but he definitely isn't a spiritual vanilla.

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Better than I expected

Matt hits the bullseye with this book. He accurately describes what is wrong about the church, faith and many Christians today. Definitely an eye opener to my own life. A great book also for the unbelievers who are questioning and in the journey for Truth.

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Exceptional

Matt Walsh pulls no punches and provides the unapologetic truth about the deterioration of the church in the west and the love of one’s self we all have. The book provoked significant self reflection and a high emphasis on working towards strengthening ourselves in God, a book I would recommend to all Christian’s I know

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Fire and brimstone and cynicism

Given how Walsh eloquently rants with a degree of polished "been there done that" authority of a world-weary, jaded, somewhat bitter old man, you'd be surprised to discover that he is in fact a millenial. In what is a long form version of essentially one of his YouTube shows, which are often morose, neck-deep wades into the worst aspects of modern life making headlines that day, in Church of Cowards he makes largely the same interesting, albeit depressing points, for example: Addressing the uncomfortable truths that mainstream Christians in the USA are at best basically seen as delusional nerds with lousy taste in music and film and at worst pushy scam artists who in a mad rush to be seen as cool by their secular friends essentially become the same flea market traders that Jesus flipped the tables over in the Temple, that the United States of America isn't actually a Christian country, it's a secular country that just happens to have a lot of Christians in it and the tacit admission that without Satan, there would be no reason for Christianity (or technically any other abrahamic religion) to exist.
Church of cowards, once you get past the "preaching" really is a deep dive into the thoughts, feelings and philosophy of a man in his 30's who seems strangely unaware (or upset) that there's usually a perfectly adequate scientific explanation for everything he complains about... and there's nothing quite like a last minute death bed conversion.

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