Elizabeth Hunter

Joyful Defiance

Christian Living

“What do we believe about joy? What have we been taught about grief and lament? In Joyful Defiance, Anna Madsen helps us to rethink emotions that may seem to chafe against faith (or at least our ideas of it). Blending Scripture, theology, and personal experience, this book reminds us that, in the words of Martin Luther’s hymn ‘A Mighty Fortress,’ ‘though life be wrenched away,’ the reign of God is ours—defying death and deeply defining joy—forever.”