God’s Born Again Y’all – Kobo eBook

God’s Born Again Y’all centers on Jae-hyun “Jay” Park, a Korean-American pre-med student balancing work at his parents’ dry-cleaning shop with the pressure of his religious upbringing. When Jay registers for an elective taught by Dr. Ricardo Salazar, a philosophy professor known for challenging students’ faith, he is confronted on the first day with Nietzsche’s statement that “God is dead”. Salazar offers a deal: sign an index card agreeing with the statement to skip three weeks of introductory reading, or decline and take the reading. Jay refuses to sign on principle, prompting Salazar to grant him twenty minutes across three class sessions to present a case for God to his peers.

Jay’s preparation intersects with several classmates and mentors who are working through their own conflicts:

• Min-seo Han preaches to thousands at his father’s megachurch, but his online persona cracks when he uncovers financial deception and hidden funds behind the ministry’s expansion.
• Layla Haddad, a Muslim student questioning traditional gender roles, studies scriptural texts and contemplative practices to discover her own agency.
• Marisol “Mari” Vega, an independent campus journalist covering belief and culture, confronts her own mortality after receiving a Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis while caring for a mother with dementia.
• Dr. Ricardo Salazar hides decades of grief behind his academic skepticism, still marked by the death of his partner, Daniel Reyes, and the isolation that followed.

Jay moves through arguments on cosmology, fine-tuning, suffering, and existential literature, coming to realize that intellectual proofs cannot substitute for lived experience. His choices strain his relationship with his girlfriend, Hannah, while forcing Jay, Salazar, Layla, and Min-seo to examine what stands when simple answers fail. The novel highlights honest questioning and personal connection as fundamental parts of faith and human experience.