The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected

The Insanity of God recounts the spiritual journey of Nik and Ruth Ripken, an ordinary couple from rural Kentucky who undertook missionary work expecting a standard pilgrimage but found themselves in circumstances far more challenging than anticipated. After six years of relief work in Somalia, they experienced a crisis of faith, questioning whether the gospel could work in such difficult places. Nik describes the struggle: "God had always been so real to me, to Ruth, and to our boys. But was He enough, for the utter weariness of soul I experienced at that time, in that place, under those circumstances?" The book explores fundamental questions about faith in the world's hardest places: How does faith survive and flourish in the Middle East? How can good overcome evil? How do you maintain hope in darkness? Can Christianity work outside Western, ordered nations? Through narrative accounts of the Ripkens' spiritual and emotional journey, combined with stories of people of faith they encountered, the book examines whether God is truly sufficient in the toughest circumstances on earth.