Article Author: Shelly A. Skinner

Shelly A. Skinner is an assistant professor of Christian Ministries at Messiah University. She coordinates the Fitness for Ministry program and teaches various ministry courses in the Christian Ministries major. She also teaches a first-year seminar entitled The Way: From Nomads to Exiles (why young adults do/don’t connect to the church). She received her EdD from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. She also served in a local church context as the minister of youth in California for over nineteen years.

Echoing Hope
How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems Our Pain

By Shelly A. Skinner

April 2022 p. 191–193 | Book Review

KURT WILLEMS. Echoing Hope: How Humanity of Jesus Redeems Our Pain. Waterbrook. 2021. Pp. 226. $16.00US. In his book, Echoing Hope, Willems doesn’t just normalize pain but admits that all humanity experiences pain. He makes the claim that Christians experience pain, too. As obvious as this statement seems, many Christians...read more