After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken

In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering--from the epic to the everyday--as a problem for faith. Less than two weeks after the release of Kent's book about his work with Haiti Partners, he heard the news.

Friends trapped under the rubble of buildings. Friends sprinting across the city looking for family. Churches--including one Kent often attended--turned to rubble. Suddenly Kent and his friends were part of an uncomfortable fellowship: people whose faith is shaken by crisis.

Taking courage from the psalmists of old and the company of his grieving neighbors, Kent has found that there is solidarity in suffering. Others have followed life to the edge of meaning and have heard God even there, calling for honest faith.

Are there questions or realities your faith can't handle?Kent wrote After Shock to help you find out.

Kent Annan (PhD, thesis pending, University of Glasgow; MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Co-Director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute and a Senior Lecturer at Wheaton College. His previous books include Slow Kingdom Coming and Following Jesus through the Eye of the Needle. Kent co-founded Spiritual First Aid. His humanitarian work has included co-founding Haiti Partners, serving on the board for a foundation focused on child trafficking issues, and living in England, France, Albania, Kosovo, and Haiti. He speaks around the country. Kent and his wife have two children and live near Chicago.