Book Review: Redeeming A Father’s Heart

December 26, 2007

I was introduced to “Redeeming A Father’s Heart” back in November while attending conference Reclaiming Fatherhood in San Francisco.

My original intention was to read this book on my flight back to New Jersey, however after reading the foreword by Fr. Pavone I knew this book required my full attention and the airplane was not exactly the right place for me to harness that sort of concentration. So I postponed reading “Redeeming A Father’s Heart” until more appropriate time, while the opportunity was right to finally finish G. K. Chesterton’s “The Everlasting Man”.

“Redeeming A Father’s Heart” is a “must have” resource on men’s post abortion grief and healing. To begin with, there are not that many books out there addressing the issue. This particular work of Kevin Burke and his coauthors David Wemhoff and Marvin Stockwell deserves special attention.

We are constantly being fed by a lie that decision to abort should remain between the woman, her doctor and her god. But men participate in that decision, albeit not always in plain leveled field. Some men, escaping restorability, seek or demand abortion. Some are just being “supportive” in her decision. While others witness helplessly as abortion being done against their will or even discover the fact after everything is over. All these men deserve our attention. Especially when they discover the courage to step forward and talk about their ordeal and share their stories of healing.

If you are a man that have participated in abortion, this book will change your life. If you are a priest, a counselor, or maybe just relative or friend of a post abortive man, this book will help you to appreciate the process of grieving nearly every post abortive man goes through on their path to healing. It will also help you to connect the dots and to see how some destructive behaviors maybe connected to men’s past involvement in abortion.

I would highly recommend this book to the leaders of AA groups. As well as to any other group or counseling service that helps others to overcome their addictions. All these addictions may very well be the result of serious spiritual and psychological trauma connected to their abortion experience. Men that shared their stories in the book, speak for millions of men around the world.

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