BOOK review
by Neal Tucker
Photo by Daniel Ruck
“Glory is to God what style is to an artist.” With his witty style, Frederick Buechner writes a book very much his own in Wishful Thinking: a Seeker’s abc. Buechner tries to give new binding to old books, and in so doing, appeal to the 21st century mind. He writes on various ideas like Love, Questions, Fools, the Gospel, Eternity; and he offers a new pair of glasses to see seemingly lofty topics, such as how Jesus can also be God: “Just as your words have you in them - your breath, spirit, power, hiddenness - so Jesus has God in him.” So if you have the desire to seek out your wishes, those angels upon which truth sometimes takes flight, get a copy of this book and learn more of the glory of God: “what God looks like when for the time being all you have to look at him with is a pair of eyes.”
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