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“If great fiction dares explore culture wars, it must show more than perfect people smiling before a flat backdrop. Frank E. Peretti’s 1992 novel Prophet reflects this reality.”
—Lorehaven review, 2022

Prophet

John Barrett, anchorman for the city’s most-watched newscast, is a man suddenly lost in a town he thought he owned. His comfortable world is being jarred to the breaking point.
Frank Peretti · for adult, young adult readers · March 1992

The truth will set you free …

John Barrett, anchorman for the city’s most-watched newscast, is a man suddenly lost in a town he thought he owned. His comfortable world is being jarred to the breaking point.

He’s caught his producer fabricating a story and lying to cover her tracks-and she seems to be hiding something much bigger. His supposedly professional and objective colleagues have descended into a dogfight over the meaning of truth. His father’s “accidental” death suddenly isn’t looking so accidental. And John’s estranged son, Carl, has returned to get the truth about the man behind the TV image. All of these events pale in comparison to the mysterious voices that John is hearing.

 

 

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If great fiction dares explore culture wars, it must show more than perfect people smiling before a flat backdrop. Frank E. Peretti’s 1992 novel Prophet reflects this reality.
E. Stephen Burnett, 2022

John Barrett is hearing voices, and not just in his earpiece. It’s 1992, and in Frank E. Peretti’s novel Prophet, John anchors his West Coast state’s channel 6 evening news. He has great ratings and great hair—the pinnacle of televised impartiality.

That makes John’s life less than balanced after his firebrand father is caught on camera preaching judgment against an incumbent governor, and is later found dead. Of course, his father’s fate is not what it seems, and John will find not just political corruption, but a deeper spiritual calling he had nearly forgotten.

Prophet captures in frame several big concerns of 1990s evangelicals—not just the pro-life cause, but the repackaging of Truth in a TV-news age, decades before social media and streaming. Peretti himself later said he felt dissatisfied with the novel’s modern messaging (such as the abortion issue). Yet these ideas remain relevant today, and Prophet takes pains to ground sociopolitical themes in twisting plots and sincere character empathy. After all, some Christians aren’t the wisest counselors, and some secular reporters really want to present the facts.

If great fiction dares to explore culture wars, that novel must show readers more than perfect people smiling before a flat backdrop, and Prophet reflects this reality. Even after thirty years, Peretti’s struggling anchorman might help remind us that amidst media and political corruption, our Father yet helps us tune into Truth.

Best for: Adult fans of contemporary social drama hinting at supernatural break-ins, readers who don’t mind some sociopolitical engagement, and/or Peretti fans willing to imagine their own angels-versus-demons fight scenes in the margins.

Discern: Many plot-relevant political themes, with some detail given to women’s health and of course the traumas of abortion; some language, yet often comically censored; family estrangement; and some Christian ideas about prophetic roles and direct leadings by the Holy Spirit, including direct forecasts of future events.

  1. ‘I heard her screaming’: Excerpt from Frank Peretti’s ‘Prophet’ — SpecFaith says:
    August 7, 2015 at 11:15 am

    […] Peretti’s fourth novel, Prophet, released in 1992. But its themes about Truth in our world are just as timely […]

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