Review: "A New Day" by Emma Scrivener

 

A New Day by Emma Scrivener
Published April 2017 by IVP
★★★

I think I had A New Day loosely confused with A New Name when I picked this up. A New Name is, as I understand it, memoir, which is generally (one way or another) up my alley; A New Day is more...taking the bible and explaining how it can be applied to mental illness or to daily struggles.

So I'm not so much the audience for this. I love the cover art, but I'd have to have a different belief system entirely to benefit from the book in the way it's intended to be read. I do appreciate that Scrivener takes a more balanced approach, though. I've read too much advice from other religious authors who basically say that any therapist who does not share your exact beliefs is at best useless and at worst a danger to your soul, but Scrivener is ready and willing to emphasize the necessity of adequate medical care as well as spiritual care, and to say that secular therapists (etc.) don't have to share your belief system to be willing and able to work with it.

I'm not likely to return to this, but a speedy read.