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Article: Anger: Discovering Your Spiritual Ally.(Holy Anger: Jacob, Job, Jesus)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- August 26, 2008
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Anger: Discovering Your Spiritual Ally.
By Andrew D. Lester.
Westminster John Knox, 126 pp., $16.95 paperback.
Holy Anger: Jacob, Job, Jesus.
By Lytta Basset.
Eerdmans, 295 pp., $28.00 paperback.
In Anger: Your Spiritual Ally, Andrew Lester, emeritus professor of pastoral theology and counseling at Brite Divinity School, tries to unhook us from a relationship to anger that is all too common and with which he grew up: "I was carefully taught to 'be nice,' and it was clear that being nice meant not expressing anger. As a result, I grew up afraid of anger and uncomfortable around conflict." Many churches collude in such ...