The Searchers was an interesting read. Purported to be about the men on the road to Emmaus after the death of their hoped-for Messiah, Jesus, I felt like it had very little to do with them. However, as Loconte fills the book with scores of current pop culture references to relate how those men must have felt, it did do the job of being "A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt." Those references kept me interested, and it supplied some new ways of looking at very old ideas, mainly doubt in the face of great seeming tragedy.The book was intriguing, and I was interested with how Loconte related grief felt after recent tragedies like the Japanese tsunami in 2011 to the grief those men felt as they walked away from Jerusalem over 2000 years ago. They were different types of grief felt by people in vastly different cultures, and yet grief is a universal feeling that no human can avoid. Jesus met with the men on the road to Emmaus amidst their grief, just as He meets with us today.
I found the book encouraging and hopeful. The way Loconte describes events was informative and entertaining and kept me wanting to read.
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