What meaning does my life have? What hope is there for the Church? How can I see beyond the media hype and false images I am bombarded with every day? Where can I find God in all this noise and turmoil?

Combining moving stories from the inner city with a fresh approach to the Gospel, Faith in Dark Places explores the revolutionary idea that the good news of God’s love is being spoken to a tired and damaged world by those rejected as worthless: the homeless and the poor.

In Faith in Dark Places, David Rhodes introduces us to his friends from the streets. It is they who help us to rediscover the meaning of the Gospel as we encounter Christ among the poor.
 

‘I read this precious little book with joy. It reveals a mystery so hard for us to hear, that we are healed by the broken as they reveal to us the presence of Jesus.’
Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche community

‘David Rhodes gives voice to the hidden, often muted, cries of failure, and reminds us that it is only from the silenced that we can hear the deeper sounds of love.’
Jim Cotter

‘Scenes and encounters from contemporary urban life jostle with stories retold from the gospels: equally raw and immediate, equally resonant with God.’
Janet Morley

‘Every so often, by the grace of God (and I mean this literally), a writer or preacher is given the gift of opening up the scriptures for some of his fellow men and women. David Rhodes is such a writer.’
From the foreword by Sheila Cassidy