Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life

Short review: Looking Before and After was very briefly on sale for $0.99 on kindle and I picked up any book by Alan Jacobs that is only $0.99. This is a short book, just under 100 pages of main content. There is an introduction to the concept of testimony and Jacobs' conflicted feelings about them. And then four chapters. The last chapter is I think the one that I am most interested in and conflicted about. Jacobs is using Nouwen's book Adam (and the person that the book is about) to interact with as a way to think about what it means to have a testimony and trace God's work in our lives. Adam was a profoundly disabled man that Nouwen worked with a L'arch, a group home for disabled adults. I would like to hear some response by someone that has done theological thinking and/or writing about disability and the image of God.

This isn't a must read book. I think there was some very interesting thoughts, but it was also a bit more disjointed than some of Jacobs' books. I am glad I read it, but 100 pages isn't much of an investment.

My slightly longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/looking-before-and-after/