THE SECRET LIFE OF AN EVANGELICAL
By Beth Dickson
Partnership. 91 pages. £4.99
ISBN 0 900128 33 X
The title promised encouragement and I picked it up eagerly. It turned out to be a deeply disappointing, sad and unhelpful book.
Beth Dickson has been nurtured among the Scottish Brethren but what she has to say impinges on evangelicals generally. Her anger and resentment are palpable as she expresses her struggles with the gender issue, the felt lack of support from the church when facing family crises, and the difficulties of her prayer life. I am sure her motivation is to help others who struggle with the same problems, but the conclusions she draws seem to me to be dangerous.
