Seeking Faith - Finding God

John Rackley

From The Julian Meetings Magazine - April 2008

Seeking Faith, Finding God grew out of John Rackley’s weekly column Rackley’s Reflections in The Baptist Times. His aim in both the column and the book is to ‘write something that will encourage the readers to look at the Bible with fresh eyes’. In his introduction he says ‘The gospel, however, expects us to communicate what we believe with a view to convincing others of its authenticity. I believe this begins to happen when Christian people are ready to have seeking and searching faith themselves. If we are to communicate what we believe it must be as fellow travellers in these difficult and demanding times’.

The book is arranged in five sections on themes of ‘A yearning faith; A Gospel place; Gospel encounters; Faith companions and Praying the Gospel’. Each reflection is about two pages long and ends with suggestions for reflection, prayer and discussion. A number of the reflections are ‘imagination led’.

Here we find new light, new ways of coming at what is familiar in the Bible, new ways of looking and seeing. Some of it is startling. Not only do we look at things differently; to read the book is to be changed as there is so much here not just for reflection, but also for growth. It is a book I am grateful for. I particularly liked Paddington Station in Advent and Unfinished Symphonies.

Reviewed by Gail Ballinger

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