Our friend, Jeffrey Munroe, has recently published a book titled, Reading Buechner: exploring the work of a master memoirist, novelist, theologian, and preacher.
Here are some of Dr. Munroe’s thoughts on Secrets in the Dark:
‘Sometimes all a sermon needs to make it memorable is one phrase. In a sermon based on Isaiah’s prophecy about the Messiah, Buechner says “all heaven broke loose” on the night of Jesus’ birth. It’s a play on the phrase “all hell broke loose,” originally from Milton’s Paradise Lost. By switching “heaven” for “hell,” Buechner again engages our imaginations. Immediately we think of what heaven breaking loose might look like and see the shepherds, hear the angel choirs, imagine the wise men following the star, and think of the God of the universe as a child in the manger.’ (p.158-9)
-Jeffrey Munroe on Buechner’s fifteenth non-fiction work, Secrets in the Dark (2006).
Reading Buechner: exploring the work of a master memoirist, novelist, theologian, and preacher has been published by IVP, and is available to view here: https://www.ivpress.com/reading-buechner
