Saturday, April 14, 2018

Book Review of Faithful by Adam Hamilton


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Faithful: Christmas through the Eyes of Joseph
by Adam Hamilton
ISBN 978-1-5018-1408-2
Abingdon Press
Reviewed by Clint Walker

Abingdon Press puts out a handful of Advent studies every year for their Methodist constituency and other folks who want to have a special study during the Advent season. Each year, Adam Hamilton is contracted to do one of these studies. In 2018, the study that they came up with has to do with looking at the events of Advent through the eyes of Joseph.

Much of this study has what you would expect from such a study: reflections on raising a child that is not biologically yours, the leadership Joseph provided as a husband and a father and more. But Hamilton does a good job at throwing some other things in such as the importance of fathers in faith development, and the correlation between absent fathers and the rise of the "nones", among other things.

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