If God is so Good Why are Things so Bad?: The Problem Of Suffering From Job To Jesus

Melvin Tinker is Vicar of St John Newland, Hull, where he has served since 1994. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including That Hideous Strength: how the West was lost (EP Books, 2018).

Endorsements:

Melvin Tinker writes with a theologian s mind, a Biblical scholar s attention to detail and a pastor s heart to minister. Using real life stories, he puts the book of Job under life s microscope to find practical insights that help us in times of suffering.
--Mark Lanier: Author of Christianity on Trial

Here is a book for the valley of the absence of God, a book that can make us more compassionate in our counselling, more informed in our suffering, more faithful in our grieving, more comforted in our anguish, and more knee-prone in our worship; and it s a book with an after-life it raises matters that we, like Mary, will go on treasuring up in our hearts. And yet Melvin Tinker has cloaked these hard and heavy matters in such a clear and readable style.
--Dr Dale Ralph Davies, Former Professor of Old Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi

Whilst there are no easy answers to suffering, this book provides an invaluable framework through which to engage with the problem of pain. *If God is so good why are things so bad* is a rare combination of careful exegesis, doctrinal clarity and Christ-centred theology. Melvin Tinker writes as someone who has clearly wrestled with the question of suffering and applies his material both as a pastorally sensitive preacher and an evangelistically compelling apologist. Christians, churches, and non-believers alike will benefit immensely from this book.
--Revd Tony Jones, Christ Church, Durham