What happens when a good man is pushed beyond what he can bear? If you’re Madison Jones, you check yourself into a mental institution and create a new religious philosophy.

Mad Jones was a golden boy, that guy everyone knows who seems to get everything he wants: girls, money, good health, athleticism, and luck. But within a week, he lost everything he truly loved. He’d always been a good Christian. Why would God do this to him?

So he wrote a new 59 Theses – his own version of the Martin Luther complaint of the Church. Aided by a salacious media and an internet hungry for new content, his ideas took off like a brush fire, and before he could check himself back out of the institution and return to ordinary life, the story was everywhere. Desperate people came to read his message, and before he knew it, he was the charismatic head of an institution that was nearly a church itself.

But Mad Jones is still the same confused, angry man he was before the asylum. How can someone as weak and broken as he is possibly help the world understand God?