Book Club: Comfort in the Ashes - Explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors by Michelle K. Keener

Hosted by Claire Musters

Comfort in the Ashes: Explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors

By Michelle Keener (978-1514010341, IVP)     

Michelle Keener is a biblical scholar who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the book of Job, viewing it through the lens of trauma therapy. She has made the content more widely accessible in this thought-provoking book to offer up an approach that doesn’t flinch from the hard passages in Job, and the difficult questions we tend to ask about it. She is at pains to point out how the biblical book is sensitive to those who have been impacted by trauma, and shows us how God goes to meet Job in the ashes when everyone else had deserted or blamed him.