From Beloved Community to Communities of Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Beloved Community to Communities of Hope write by Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). This book was released on 2009. From Beloved Community to Communities of Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A More Perfect Union
A More Perfect Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A More Perfect Union write by Adam Russell Taylor. This book was released on 2021-09-14. A More Perfect Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The process of healing and creating a more perfect union in our nation must start now. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community, which animated and galvanized the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, provides a hopeful way forward. In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the Beloved Community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive. Building the Beloved Community requires living out a series of commitments, such as true equality, radical welcome, transformational interdependence, E Pluribus Unum ("out of many, one"), environmental stewardship, nonviolence, and economic equity. By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship, tapping into our most sacred civic and religious values, enabling our nation to live up to its best ideals and realize a more perfect union.
Hope Is Here!
Hope Is Here! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hope Is Here! write by Luther E. Smith Jr.. This book was released on 2023-11-07. Hope Is Here! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joyful and daunting opportunities to live into God’s dream of justice and beloved community are compelling and available. Hope, says Luther Smith Jr., is essential to the needed personal and social transformations that prepare us for such sacred opportunities. Yet genuine hope is often confused as merely wish fulfillment, optimism, or perceiving better tomorrows. In Hope Is Here! Smith describes how we truly perceive and join “the work of hope,” enlivening us to a life that is oriented toward immediate and future experiences of personal fulfillment, justice, and beloved community. Interpreting five spiritual practices for individuals and congregations to experience the power of hope, this book prepares us to engage racism, mass incarceration, environmental crises, divisive politics, and indifference that imperil justice and beloved community. It delivers the inner resources necessary to work for change through its interpretation of hope. Additionally, each chapter ends with questions that prompt readers to examine their experiences and their readiness to journey with hope. Written for Christians who want to commit themselves to justice and beloved community, this book will provide helpful guidance for a life sustained by God’s gifts of hope and love. Hope is here for our “responsibility” and “response-ability” to live the fulfilling life that God dreams for us.
Beloved Community
Beloved Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beloved Community write by . This book was released on 2007. Beloved Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A poetry anthology featuring the writing of homeless and formerly homeless women of King County. These women tell not only their own stories, but the larger story of homelessness as well. Here are our sisters, our friends, our families--ourselves.
The Church Cracked Open
The Church Cracked Open - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Church Cracked Open write by Stephanie Spellers. This book was released on 2021-03-17. The Church Cracked Open available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history." — The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry Sometimes it takes disruption and loss to break us open and call us home to God. It’s not surprising that a global pandemic and once-in-a-generation reckoning with white supremacy—on top of decades of systemic decline—have spurred Christians everywhere to ask who we are, why God placed us here and what difference that makes to the world. In this critical yet loving book, the author explores the American story and the Episcopal story in order to find out how communities steeped in racism, establishment, and privilege can at last fall in love with Jesus, walk humbly with the most vulnerable and embody beloved community in our own broken but beautiful way. The Church Cracked Open invites us to surrender privilege and redefine church, not just for the sake of others, but for our own salvation and liberation.
