Regal, 2007, 138 pp., $9.99 www.regalbooks.com

With the goal of presenting “prayer in honest, naked form,” Writing on the Wall is a compilation of prayers written by people from around the world, all apart of a genera­tion searching for this reality talk.

Youth will love, understand and embrace the gritty God-talk. Youth workers will be hard pressed to fight the urge to reign these thoughts in. These are self-professed “non­religious” prayers; and contrary to the bibli­cal formula, all laments do not end in praise.

You may want to cou­ple this text with a teaching of the psalms. And for teens who do not pray because they believe they do not know how, this collec­tion of “modern day psalms” teaches that if we can think, feel, talk, write or read, we can pray.

— Review by Annie A. Lockhart

 

 

Recommended Articles