After years of apparently fruitless mission work, the author and his wife concluded that the Gospel just didn't work in Somalia. How could God be good when life was so dark? The Ripkens went on to collect stories of persecuted believers around the world, and learned that God is faithful even in suffering and darkness. Though not written from an Anabaptist perspective, The Insanity of God is a deeply touching reminder that God's ways are higher than ours.