Fodder for hard times

SEARCHING OUR HEARTS IN DIFFICULT TIMES
By John Owen
Banner of Truth. 160 pages. £5.00
ISBN 978 1 848 718 814

Though John Owen lived in a different era, he grappled with a pertinent topic. Speaking later in his life, he addressed those painfully familiar with ‘hard times, perilous times, difficult times, those of public plague when death lies at every door’.

Yet, even in the sharp shadow of the great plague, the great fire and mass riots, Owen holds that ‘departing from the wellspring of life is … the most prevalent plague of our age.’