The Shack

I read several good books in 2007. I read a few great books. And then, due to a friend's strong urging, I read a book that I'll cherish for a long, long time.

The book is simply titled The Shack. Click here to read more about the project and impact of the book.

Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.

Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.

In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answer Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

I would give this book to a Ph.D. as well as the blue-collar factory worker. It's that good.