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In this remarkable tale of hope and survival, Hannah Luce tells how, as the sole survivor of a terrible plane crash, she came to grips with her faith: “a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
On May 11, 2012, a small plane carrying five young adults, en route to a Christian youth rally, crashed in a Kansas field, skidding 200 yards before hitting a tree and bursting into flames. Only two survived the crash: ex-marine Austin Anderson, who would die the next morning from extensive burns, and his friend Hannah Luce, the daughter of Teen Mania founder and influential youth minister Ron Luce.
This is Hannah’s story.
In Fields of Grace, Hannah details the investigation of her faith, her coming-of-age as the dutiful daughter of Evangelical royalty, her decision to join her father’s ministry outreach to teens, and her miraculous survival and recovery following the accident. It also serves as a tribute and testament to the lives of the dear friends who perished in the catastrophic plane crash and reveals how their memory continues to inspire all that she does.
Here is the “riveting personal account” (Booklist) of a girl who grew up as the daughter of one of the most influential evangelical leaders of our time, who questioned her early religious convictions somewhere along the way and who, from the embers of that doomed plane ride, finally found her faith.
- Sales Rank: #682082 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-10-22
- Released on: 2013-10-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Luce would seem to have it all: an influential father—Ron Luce, a well-known youth evangelist—a family who loves her, close friends, a beautiful home, plans to travel the world, and self-confidence enough for several young women in their early 20s. Yet one day her life takes a nosedive—literally. While flying to a Christian youth rally, her plane crashes in a Kansas cornfield, nearly burning her to death and killing four of her close friends. Even before the crash, which brings about a crisis of faith, Luce’s hunger for reading and learning causes her to question her father’s ministry. Despite her reservations, she and two dear friends work for her father’s cause. After the horrifying plane crash, she must reckon with the heartbreaking loss of her friends, as well as survivor’s guilt. She must also undertake an arduous recovery that involves accepting a patchwork of skin grafts in place of her old skin. This riveting personal account is not for sissies, yet it deftly conveys the beauty and depth of love and faith among friends. --Susan DeGrane
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"Gripping...a calamitous, fascinating memoir, written with surprising spiritual sophistication...Luce's story serves as a tragic microcosm for an entire generation finding a faith of their own." (Publishers Weekly (Starred))
“This riveting personal account is not for sissies, yet it deftly conveys the beauty and depth of love and faith among friends.” (Booklist)
“A tender, Christian-based memoir of love and friendship. “ (Kirkus)
“A soulful reflection addressing the hard questions about life--questions that often go unanswered because there really are no answers. I am astounded by Hannah's will to live…her transparency about her continuing life journey displays courage of another kind, inspiring and giving others the strength to question, listen, and endure.” (Jessica Buchanan, author of Impossible Odds)
About the Author
Hannah Luce
Hannah Luce is the daughter of Teen Mania Ministries cofounder and preacher Ron Luce. She is the founder of Mirror Tree, a nonprofit devoted to re-integrating refugees from the horrors of rape, genocide, civil wars, and other means of trauma by funding educational research to improve their lives. She lives in Chicago.
Robin Gaby Fisher
Robin Gaby Fisher is the author of the New York Times bestseller After the Fire. She is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and a member of a Pulitzer Prize–winning team. She teaches narrative journalism at Rutgers University.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
an honest story of hope and faith
By Joan N.
On May 11, 2012, twenty two year old Hannah Luce, daughter of youth evangelist Ron Luce, was the only survivor of a small plane crash. This is her story.
Hannah shares what it was like growing up evangelical, in the family whose father was the CEO of Teen Mania. See tells of seeing great miracles yet having times of questioning her faith. She got to the point of faking being an good evangelical girl, even faking speaking in tongues. She was frustrated with the Christian concept of “us” and “them.”
She shares her friendships with Austin and Garrett, guy friends so important to her. And then that fateful day in 2012 when she, Austin, Garrett and two others were flying to a Teen Mania youth rally. Her memories of the crash are vivid. Her struggles after her survival were serious. She faced the reality of the absence of her friends, the guilt of surviving, enduring flashbacks, and learning to live with her scarred skin. She felt disconnected from God. She questioned her parents' very specific religious beliefs.
In November of 2012, Hannah went back to the crash sight. There she began to experience the healing of her soul and spirit.
This is a powerful book. Hannah is honest about her youth, troubled by the confines of her parents' faith. She reveals the questioning of her religious convictions. She shares the spiritual lessons she has learned in the aftermath of the crash. “Despite what I have been through,” she writes, “mine is a story of hope. And faith.” (285)
This is a good book for college or career aged people. Many of those questioning their own Christian beliefs will identify with Hannah. They will also see God's faithfulness to Hannah and the entire Luce family. An inspirational book.
All of Hannah's proceeds from this book will go to Mirror Tree, a nonprofit she is forming to help female refugees of the world.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for the purpose of this review.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Courageous Young Woman Finding Her Way Home
By Justin Michaels
This candid memoir by the daughter of Teen Mania Founder, Ron Luce, is a portrait of a young, introspective woman grappling with the validity of her parents' faith after having zealously shared it as a child. Structured around the tragic plane accident where she was the sole survivor, Luce begins her story in the Kansas cornfield where the crash took place six months earlier. She feels she must return alone to face her grief and pour out her heart to her two friends at the place that claimed their lives. Garrett, her romantic interest, died upon impact while her other friend, Austin, miraculously survived initially with 90% of his body burned. Somehow he found the strength to guide them both out to a road where they were picked up and brought to a hospital where he eventually died.
Luce then flashes back to her childhood and how she would often accompany her father on ministry trips around the world witnessing to people on planes (whether they liked it or not) and offering healing prayers for the sick as far away as South Africa (a man she prayed for she writes was healed of blindness and partial deafness). Yet, despite being drilled in the basics of Christianity and knowing a multitude of Bible verses, she enters her teens and wonders if any of it is real, or true. She begins to hang around with the "silent rebels" involved in Teen Mania who pass around "bad books" like The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis and Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. Why books by C.S. Lewis would be considered off the "sanctioned" reading list of Teen Mania, I don't know. Most evangelicals I know see him as a literary hero. Reading Blue Like Jazz I can understand might not be encouraged because of the author's unorthodox approach to living out his faith at an ultra-liberal college. Instead of answering her questions or discussing what she has read, however, her dad just takes the books away and never gives them back. A missed opportunity for dialogue in my opinion.
Later, Luce goes to Oral Roberts University and meets two young men, Garrett and Austin, with whom she discovers she can talk to about anything. Austin came to ORU as a student after doing two tours in Iraq while Garrett was an adjunct professor that taught business classes. Austin likes her because she does not fit the ORU stereotype of a girl who drives a yellow Mustang and is looking for a husband. Garrett is attracted to her at first because he admires her father so much, but then they have a semi-romantic relationship where they sometimes kiss and hold hands, but never speak of marriage. He then joins the Teen Mania staff in part to be with her and to do something more meaningful with his life. She returned to Teen Mania to help administrate the ministry after graduating from ORU when her father offered her the job, which she took reluctantly. The accident occurred on their way to a Teen Mania event. Reading this story made me think of another book, A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken, where a loved one dies but the effect is to draw the surviving spouse back on track with God.
Luce writes that during her searching stage she drank wine, saw spicy movies and did weed as well as read about other philosophies and religions. She also admits taking on a "retro" look a la Amy Winehouse and slipping over to the gay protester side during one of her father's ministry events at City Hall in San Francisco. She writes that it was to try to understand why they were so hateful toward her father. She writes that she already had gay friends at the time with pure hearts and could not understand how a loving God could punish such good people. Yet, what she sees here are gays that are mean and nasty and hardly tolerant of opposing views.
Later, Luce recounts a scene with her father after they visit a well-known evangelical minister who became a universalist (everyone will be saved) after seeing the atrocities in Rwanda, somehow coming to the odd conclusion that what happened there was hell so, therefore, hell does not exist (huh?). After their time with the man, Luce boldly reviles her father for not just loving and accepting him unconditionally instead of seeing him as a deserter who left the Christian fold. She unleashes all her pent-up anger at him for always seeing people as either "us" or "them" rather than just loving them the way they are.
As I was reading the book, I kept thinking that perhaps one reason she clashed so much with her father was because he has an evangelistic gift (a passion for sharing the message of the gospel) and she felt pressured to fit into that mold, while she has more of a mercy and pastoral gift, which focuses more on just caring for people and showing them God's compassion.
Overall, I found the emotional honesty of the book refreshing. The writing with Robin Gaby Fisher is very good and the story moves well without becoming maudlin. The things that disturbed me, however, were the unbiblical stances Luce seems to advocate in the book. I say "advocates" because it is not clear if her views changed after her return to faith in God or not. For example, she never revises her thoughts about her father's friend being okay spiritually even though he had rejected hell as a literal reality. Jesus himself spoke of hell in literal terms and the need for people to repent and be saved. She also seems to have a problem with there being a difference between Christians and non-Christians. Christ again spoke of "sheep" and "goats" and people being "saved" and people being "lost."
Her view of homosexuality is also a non-biblical one. 1 Corinthians 6:9 & 10 states: "Be not deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." Yes, we are to love the homosexual, but is it true love not to tell them that they need to repent and believe in order to be saved like everyone else, or telling them that their lifestyle pleases God when so many verses in both the Old and New Testament say the exact opposite? The following verse 1 Corinthians 6:11 gives the hope for the homosexual as well as anyone else coming out of a sinful lifestyle: "And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." In other words, it is possible to come out of any of those bondages by the power of God.
To top it off, after having come back to faith in God, she quotes an author who writes: "We do not realize that God is anywhere we allow Him/Her to enter." Why would you include a quote like that if you really have embraced Christianity? "Him" or "Her"? It looks like there is still some confusion here if she is agreeing with a writer who does not know if God is a "him" or a "her."
I admire Hannah's courage to face her grief and her honesty throughout the book. I do have a question for her, however: If we say we believe in God, how do we discern what is right and wrong if we also do not believe that the Bible is God's Word and "is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16 & 17)? In other words, on what authority do we base our beliefs? Modern cultural mores? Political correctness? Whatever seems right to us?
Yet, if the Bible is indeed the Word of God, wouldn't it behoove us to submit to it out of our love for God, and not try and change it, or twist it to suit what we think it should be? Or else, wouldn't that be the equivalent of us taking the place of God?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Waste of time
By Northern Mama
This sounds like an assignment made by a therapist. It has the composition quality of a high schooler I would not recommend it.
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