This collection represents a delightful diversity of approach, style and assessment of themes by exceptionally gifted ministers and scholars who are dedicated to connecting the serious study of scripture with the life of the Church. Each writer shares the conviction that Hosea deserves to be read and heard as a word of God for contemporary people of faith.

Contributors include: Margaret Dee Bratcher, Tony W. Cartlege, Donald W. Garner, Peggy A. Haymes, John H. Hewett, Gary W. Light, James M. Pitts , Charles E. Poole, Kandy Queen-Sutherland, Jeffrey S. Rogers, Michael L. Ruffin and B. Elmo Scoggin.