Understanding & Helping Those Gripped By Addiction
Hope In Addiction
A Global epidemic
London’s suburbs. Latin America’s megacities. West Africa’s villages. China’s skyscrapers. North America’s homes. Addiction is a worldwide epidemic.
A powerful look at the gospel for the addicted, Hope in Addiction helps us think through what it means to be the Church in the light of this growing – and heartbreaking – epidemic.
How did we get here? Why is addiction so powerful? How can we find lasting freedom from addiction? Hope in Addiction explores these questions with clarity and compassion.
Hope in Addiction isn’t just about drug and alcohol addictions. It’s about gambling addictions, porn dependencies, workaholism, and internet addictions. This a book about how slaves to addiction can experience freedom as children of the Living God and family in the community of God. Wherever they are. Whatever has enslaved them.
Andy Partington brings together personal stories, addiction theory, theology, and front-line ministry experience. This book is for church leaders, influencers, educators, and counsellors. It’s a book for the friends and family of those gripped by addiction. This book is for all of us.
There is hope in addiction. Hope for freedom. Hope for wholeness. Hope for now. Hope for eternity.
The scope and depth of this work is breathtaking. The wisdom embedded in Andy’s words is simultaneously soothing and piercing. He cuts to the heart of addiction on both a global and personal level, indicting systems and exposing the heart, while equally offering profound hope for those who suffer addiction, and for those who love those who war with desire. This is a brilliant gift from a man called to the margins whose passion offers us all a taste of the One whose presence is what we truly desire.
Dan Allender, PhD, Founding President, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
Meet the Author
Andy Partington leads the work of Novō Communities and Novō Adventures.
Andy has served as Director of Training at London School of Theology, in local church leadership in the UK and Bolivia, and as CEO of Yeldall Manor, an addiction treatment centre in the southeast of England.
Andy is the author of Hope In Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in It’s Grip and Church and State. Andy is married to Michaela and the proud father of Daniel, Jemimah, Phoebe, JJ, and Miah.
I love this book because it marries the logic of the social sciences and the devotion of Christian spirituality into a compassionate intellectuality that is powerful enough to confront our terrifying addiction problems. I think that both Christians and non-believers, like myself, will take it to heart.
Bruce K. Alexander, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, and author of The Globalization of Addiction