Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy
Discovering the Grace of Lament

This is an excellent treatise on lament, a topic I have been exploring quite accidentally lately. It is a book I can imagine reading again. If you haven’t explored the idea of lament it will probably bring you great comfort in the sorrows of this life and it is also a key way to weep with those who w......more

This book is absolutely phenomenal. Every page is soaked in a careful pastoralness, awareness and passion for the Scriptures, and experience in the lived reality of the world that makes lament so important. Read this and encourage others to read it. And then follow through by immersing yourself in t......more

This is one of those hard books to review. It is an important and necessary book, and the author has many wonderful, biblical, and important things to say about Lament. However, more often than not, he would use phrases or words that sounded too mystical, that made the "practice" and "journey" of la......more

The introduction to my review is expressing an appreciation for Mark Vroegop. I feel differently critiquing books written by pastors who are real fallible people doing their best to love God and love people. It feels pretty different than enjoying heckling terribly written fiction. Critiquing a past......more

I’m so grateful to have found this book! & to have experienced communal lament in the way he often describes❣️ “I now believe lamenting together is the church’s calling — a unique voice in the darkness.”......more