In 'Am I Missing Something?', former News of the World journalist Ruth Roberts shares her own experiences - dear, drear and dreadful as a new Christian in a world that she found completely alien – the church. Although the people at the church she joined were generous, welcoming and full of grace she worries that Christians come across as weird, judgmental and out of touch, though she knew these opinions couldn’t be more wrong.

In her book, she looks for the reason that Christians seem unable to shake off a generally negative image. For Ruth, her preconceptions changed when she spent time with church-goers during a sticky time in her life and found acceptance and compassion, rather than judgement. But negative perceptions don’t come from nowhere, and some people have had pretty bad experiences at church.

"If I raise my arms in worship... how do I get them down again?"

Drawn from her regular column published in Christianity magazine, and with additional material, Ruth examines the nature of her new-found belief, and her struggles to reconcile many of her own ideas with those of the church. In this humorous, touching and wholly encouraging model of love, healing, acceptance, grace and holiness she paints a picture of the community of believers which all church members – both the weird and the wonderful, aspire to create.