Book Review: God Speaks Through Wombs

 

God Speaks Through Wombs

Poems on God's Unexpected Coming

by Drew Jackson

InterVarsity Press 

IVP

 Christian  |  Poetry 

Pub Date 14 Sep 2021

I am reviewing a copy of God Speaks Through Wombs, Poems on God’s Unexpected Coming through InterVarsity Press and Netgalley:

In God Speaks through wombs birthing prophetic utterances.   We are reminded that despite those who deal with an unbelieving religion that masquerades as faith. Divine favor is placed on what we have disgraced. 

God Speaks Through Angels, is Drew Jackson’s exploration the first eight chapters of Luke's Gospel in a new poetic register.    The poems in this collection is declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power.  Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible." From the Magnificat ("That girl can sing! . . . She has a voice / That can shatter shackles") to the baptism of Christ ("I stepped in / Committing insurrection"), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance against all hope that's been in the gospel all along.

I give In God Speaks Through Wombs five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!