Alec Worrell-Welch’s Reviews > Thinning the Veil: Encountering Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation > Status Update

This is full of beautiful practices to “thin the veil” and recognize God’s near presence. Each chapter also contains a few historical, theological, and exegetical nuggets that deepen our engagement of the text—a bit like the “Feasting on the Word” series. The main idea can feel overdone, though, and the shocking vulnerability and scope of personal disclosures invite a few questions.

Shane fully trusts that our loneliness from God is, as the mystics wrote, a “ray of darkness” or “cloud of unknowing” where we wait attentively, receptively, because the dark silence is not God’s absence but an intimacy so near, it takes time and grace for our senses to adjust. He identifies numerous times when heaven and earth overlap in Revelation—God, near. This is a soul-testing, refining read.

A strong start. I really appreciate the pause and meditation on how the person of Jesus is what (or who) John really wants to know and share with people in need. The book reads well so far and gives practical ways to grow in understanding and to encounter God anew, ourselves.