Book Review: Lighthouse Faith

Fox News religion correspondent Lauren Green writes a compelling book in Lighthouse Faith. She encourages her audience toward making God a living reality in your life. She packages arguments, illustrations and anecdotes that she’s uncovered through her extensive career in a lucid and compelling way.

You hear the echoes of Tim Keller, her pastor, in her writing, which I appreciate. She doesn’t necessarily provide new information or arguments, but packages them nicely and briefly. Green also does a great job of helping them to connect to her audience not just logically and intellectually but emotionally. She writes to the heart, but unlike many, does not come across as manipulative or contrived.

As a pastor, one of the things I appreciated was the anecdotes scattered throughout to illustrate the points. Her seasoned work as a reporter has given her windows into some incredibly helpful stories that help illustrate many different themes that come up in my preaching. They were consistently helpful, engaging and would give real life examples of why these things matter.

If forced to be critical, I would say at times the writing can be redundant and there was a couple factual errors (like ascribing the Dark Night of the Soul to Aquinas and not St. John of the Cross), but overall she did a great job.

This book was provided to me free of charge through Cross Focused Reviews in exchange for an honest review. I was not required to write a good review.