Endorsements & Reviews
“In this deeply engaging, conspicuously unpolished chronicle of a decade of mountaineering adventures with his father, the son of a famous father explores not only the physical terrain of the Colorado Rockies but also the emotional and spiritual terrain of their evolving relationship as the two test themselves. An assistant professor of social work at Michigan’s Spring Arbor University, the writer is the son of Richard Foster, a luminary among contemporary writers on Christian spirituality. “The little I knew about my father I didn’t much like,” he writes near the book’s beginning. An unsparing and even sometimes awkward narrative of the writer’s deepening self-knowledge as he confronts the wounds of his childhood, the book also describes his deepening friendship with his father as they experience climbing success, failure, and some pretty terrifying close calls in unforgiving mountain passes. This gem of a book should appeal not only to Richard Foster fans but to a much wider pool of readers who will be grateful for its insights, humility, and tenderness.”
-Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“Son and Father, Nathan and Richard Foster, set out to climb Colorado’s ‘fourteeners’ together. Wisdom Chaser is poignant and winsome as successive mountains deepen for each, the son and the father, what it means to be a son, to be a father. Add mountain climbing to your list of spiritual disciplines.”
-Eugene Peterson, translator of The Message and author of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
“This book will give comfort to parents of kids who are still finding their way, and hope to kids who are seeking to understand their parents.”
-Philip Yancey, author of The Jesus I Never Knew
This is a beautiful book. I took away lessons for my own life and relationships. This book is significant not because we learn something of Richard Foster, but because it is an authentic and transparent story of redemption. If a book can be brave, then this is a brave book because it took courage to write in such an honest way.”
-Margaret Campbell, Renovaré Chair of the Board of Trustees
