Peter Standford

My Tsunami Journey

Theology

“That suffering, whether in our intimate circle or on the incomprehensible scale of the Asian tsunami, is a challenge to faith in God has been comprehensively explored in writing. What makes Mark Dowd’s account . . . so readable, compelling, and intimate is how he manages to capture so well both the human capacity to bear the unbearable and the nuanced, subtle part faith, against all expectations, can play in that.”