But First, We Must Begin in the Dark: A Father's Journey into Special Needs & Faith - Softcover

Maguire, Mark Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218827557

Verlag: Speckled Leaf Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What happens to faith when the answers stop making sense?

When Mark Wallace Maguire’s son was born with a chromosome deletion, the life he had imagined for his family changed forever. As a father, he found himself confronting questions he never expected to ask: Why would God allow this? Where is God in suffering? What does faith look like when prayers don’t produce the answers we want?

But First, We Must Begin in the Dark: A Father’s Journey into Special Needs & Faith is an honest and deeply personal exploration of those questions.

Drawing from his own experience as a special needs father, conversations with other fathers, and the wisdom of writers and theologians including C.S. Lewis, Henri Nouwen, and Frederick Buechner, Maguire explores the complicated intersection of faith, disability, fatherhood, suffering, and hope.

This is not a book offering easy answers or tidy explanations. Instead, it is an invitation to enter the darkness honestly and to discover that sometimes faith begins not when we find the answers, but when we learn to remain present in the questions.

For parents raising children with special needs, fathers struggling with faith, caregivers navigating uncertainty, and anyone who has ever wondered where God is in the midst of suffering, this book offers companionship rather than clichés.

Because sometimes, before we can find our way toward the light, we must first be willing to begin in the dark.

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Mark Wallace Maguire is an author, writer, and speaker whose work explores faith, family, literature, and the extraordinary stories found within ordinary life. He is the author of But First, We Must Begin in the Dark: A Father's Journey into Special Needs & Faith, as well as the Alexandria Rising Chronicles, an action adventure series that has reached readers across the globe.A lifelong storyteller, Maguire writes across genres, from historical fiction and thrillers to books exploring Christian faith, special needs, family, and the questions that shape how we understand God and one another. His writing is deeply influenced by authors and thinkers such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Henri Nouwen, G.K. Chesterton, Ralph Ellison, Pat Conroy, Ferrol Sams, and Flannery O'Connor.Maguire is also a C.S. Lewis scholar and speaker, presenting lectures and workshops on Lewis, Christian thought, and the intersection of faith and the arts. In 2026, he presented at the Henri Nouwen Conference at the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, where he explored The Power of the Wounded Healer: Embracing Brokenness as a Means to Leadership.The Georgia Humanities Council named him a member of the inaugural Georgia Circuit and he teaches classes throughout the state on creative writing and Georgia literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Speckled Leaf Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798218827557
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
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