The Shack was not on my reading list. I’d heard about it, some good and some bad. Most of the bad had to do either with how God was depicted as an African American woman named Papa or how the Trinity was portrayed. In any case, I had a pile of books on my wish list already and The Shack was not going to make the cut.However, my mom read it. She really liked it and said it was a book that my dad would have enjoyed. My dad was Baptist preacher who joined the Army during the Vietnam war. After retiring from the Army he ran a small college for a few years before finishing his career as a Hospice chaplain. I’m not sure how conservative my dad was when he first became a preacher. But he would tell me that after spending time in Vietnam, working as a hospital Chaplain, and finally helping people die in peace with Hospice that he probably would not make it in a Baptist church.
In any case, since my mom talked so enthusiastically about the book I figured I should read it. I needed to figure out for myself if it was a good as the Christian media says or as bad as some conservative Christian leaders warned.
