Article: Anger: Discovering Your Spiritual Ally.(Holy Anger: Jacob, Job, Jesus)(Book review)

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 ...

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