The Bellowing of Cain

Hope for Those Who've Blown It

By: Jeremy Gordon Grinnell

Narrated by: Gordon Greenhill

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

It’s a strange form of Christianity that would deny that perpetrators of evil can be redeemed. The Bellowing of Cain was written primarily to those who, like Cain, have made horrible life-wrecking decisions and secondarily to those who have a calling to live and work with them. It is written by a fellow traveler who understands what it means to destroy one’s life…for he once did so.

In the culture of disposable people, we need a book like The Bellowing of Cain to teach us about the unique journey taken by people with such baggage—baggage like shame, loss, and remorse. Such luggage is heavy and bends the back of those who must carry it, and they often walk alone. Who will speak for them?

The Bellowing of Cain offers hope to people whose deepest wounds are self-inflicted. What does the run up to self-destruction look like? How do you survive the explosion? How do you rebuild a meaningful life afterward? The book offers sage perspectives on how to grow, not through trauma that comes from without, but that which we inflict on ourselves.

Winner of The Xulon Press Christian Writers Award for best self-help book of 2023!

©2022 Jeremy Gordon Grinnell (P)2022 Jeremy Gordon Grinnell

Thorough, hopeful and thought-provoking

Cleverly written and checks lots of boxes as an examination of conscience of sorts and as a practical suggestions guide after having fessed up. A great example of bringing a little bit of heaven to earth by demonstrating the stronghold sin can have on our lives… and how processing the shift or release to the other side of sin is a necessary process for healing and forgiveness to take place and to otherwise become more holy. Some of us believe we will all have to be purified before meeting our makers… perhaps bellowing as Cain does during our earthly life, leaves less “purifying” of the soul to be done after we’ve left our earthly bodies. Perhaps something toward which we all should strive.

The Unvarnished Story of a Mistake

This is a true story of temptation and sin (though not the one you expected). The author bears his heart and soul in describing what his error cost him, and how he is managing his life after "the explosion".

Feeling the pain in every word was troubling for me. It is a true story that everyone can relate to in some way - mistakes we live with every day, the guilt or shame we carry in our hearts, and how hard it is to move past them.

Bravo!

So, so good.

Dr Grinnell writes clearly and carefully. His willingness to own his past shines clearly. But what shines even more clearly is the way he has wrestled with God and come out the far side with a clearer view of himself: sinner yes, but more-so beloved. As such he can clearly denounce fallenness and sin for what they are but speaks winsomly and full of conviction of God's goodness and love. His narration of love and hope is the sort of simplicity that is found only from walking THROUGH complexity, not the kind ofnsimplicity that denounces or sidesteps complexity.
So thankful.