By Steve Chalke
Hodder & Stoughton
165 pages
ISBN 0 340 66144 5
No-one who knows Steve Chalke and his various ministries could doubt his qualification to write a book with this title. This is the first offering in a new launch of Hodder's 'I believe' series which served the Christian church very well in the 1960s. The new editor, David Stone, has contacted several people with interest in specific ministries, and academic qualifications in some cases, to write up this new series.
Unlike some of the former volumes, Steve Chalke's contribution is a very easy read. He touches on subjects which vary from homelessness to the National Lottery. He tackles the vexed question of teenage sexuality and the lessening of standards and the needs of the disabled and the deprived. All this is placed against a Scriptural background. He peppers his essays (for that is basically what each chapter is) with relevant contemporary quotations which in themselves are of great value, and he concludes each chapter with addresses of organisations who can give further information.
