Blog Tour: "Fatherless Generation" by John Sowers
John Sowers, Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story . Zondervan, 2010. 138 pgs. Thank you once again to engagingchurchblog.com for hosting this blog tour and providing the book for me to review. In this book Sowers tells the story of burgeoning fatherlessness in America and the results of this ongoing tragedy. He tells this story through a mix of personal stories, both his own and those from others, information on what is happening and the consequences of it, and biblical passages which reveal the heart of God on this matter. In short, being fatherless is having massive negative consequences on the lives of young men and women and we, as God's people, need to step up to be fathers to the fatherless, just as God himself proclaims that He is a father to the fatherless. The book is divided into two sections. The first examines the problem and the second examines the solution. Sowers paradigm for helping is that of redeeming the st...