CHARLOTTE, NC— One of the deepest and most difficult subjects apologists address is suffering. In Where Is God in All the Suffering? (The Good Book Company, September 2020), Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing enters the conversation with empathetic, easy-to-read, and powerful insights. Positioned as an evangelistic resource, this book is good for both unbelievers and believers alike.
Part of the popular Questioning Faith Series from OCCA the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, this book is the latest answering common objections to faith. Other topics in the series include Can Science Explain Everything?, Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?, Am I Just My Brain? and Is Jesus History?.
Orr-Ewing’s approach to the book, she explains, aims to reach people in their trials. “Books on suffering written by academic types rarely connect with people who are actually suffering,” she says. “I work in Oxford, and I have had the opportunity of studying and teaching throughout my adult working life. In the course of that time, I have found myself drawn to thinking about and reflecting on some of the toughest questions of life. Through all of that, I have come to realize that if Christian faith is worth considering, it needs to be deep enough to cope with our most rigorous human scrutiny and our most heart-rending questions.”
Covering topics like, asking “why?” and where God is in anger, grief, mental illness, natural disasters, and more, Dr. Orr-Ewing addresses a breadth of challenges with depth and compassion. Os Guinness, author of Unspeakable, notes, “As deeply caring as she is wise, deep, and helpful, Amy Orr-Ewing has written for all who are suffering and in pain. She has been there herself, and she also knows the sure path to comfort, healing and faith. A book to be read slowly, and cherished — and shared with others who are in pain.”
As Guinness notes, this unique approach to one of the most common experiences and questions every person faces positions Where Is God in All the Suffering? as a book that can help both apologists and the individuals they are trying to reach with the gospel.
About Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing
Over the last twenty years, Amy has spoken about how the Christian faith answers the deepest questions of life on university campuses around the world. She is a regular speaker on TV, radio and has addressed politicians in the Speakers Rooms and Chapel at the UK Parliament, on Capitol Hill, and to West Wing staff at the White House. Dr Orr- Ewing gained her undergraduate degree and her doctorate from the University of Oxford. She is co-director of OCCA The Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics and the co-founder of REBOOT, a youth initiative aimed at helping young people think deeply about faith, which now runs in countries all over the world. Amy is married to Frog. They have three children. She helps lead Latimer Minster, a church community based on a farm in Buckinghamshire. She and the church were heavily involved in the church’s response to the Grenfell disaster in the UK in 2017.
About The Good Book Company
Founded in 1991, The Good Book Company (TGBC) is an international Christian publisher. Their Bible studies, books, devotionals, videos, tracts, evangelistic courses, and training materials are used throughout the English-speaking world, and in translation in over 35 languages worldwide. Everyone at TGBC is passionate about the Lord Jesus, His word, His church, and His gospel of grace. They create and publish biblical, relevant, and accessible resources that will encourage Christians to keep going, keep growing, and keep sharing their faith
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