Rev Joan Brown Campbell

Living Into Hope: A Call to Spiritual Action for Such a Time as This

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Produktbeschreibung

"As people of faith, we are the people of hope." From this inspirational premise, Rev. Campbell leaps into the underlying question: "How do we live into this hope?" Drawing on her amazing life experiences, this visionary minister speaks out on the pressing issues that face us today: race, reconciliation, forgiveness, love, justice, choices, and community. With a bold, distinctive voice, Campbell asserts that we have the capacity to transcend the barriers we have constructed that separate us from one another. She poses that "who is my neighbor?" may well be the most crucial question in our world where so many are hungry and hurting and weary of war. She calls us to life lived fullynot carefully or cautiously, but fully engaged with the world and with the messiness of humanity. And she dares us to act as the one people we are called and created to beto claim our freedom to care, to risk, and to step out into the unknown. The first book by Dr. Campbell, Living into Hope captures the e

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781594732836
• ISBN-10: 1594732833
• Artikelnr.: 28212144

Autorenporträt

Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, former executive director of the United States office of the World Council of Churches and former general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, is director of religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution. She currently serves as chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women and is one of the founding members of the Council of Sages for Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion initiative. Rev. Dr. Campbell is a highly sought-after lecturer. Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is available to speak on the following topics: * The Gift of Age * Our Interfaith Future * The Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Twenty-First Century * A Woman of the Movement: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow * The Story of the Global Women's Peace Initiative

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Karen Armstrong
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: Love and Unity
Love Matters
Bearing Down in Love
Who Is My Neighbor?
One Shepherd, One Flock
PART TWO: Reconciliation and Renewal
Sacred Conversation
Prodigals and the Path to Peace
For Such a Time as This
The Beloved Community
PART THREE: Faith in Action
The Road to Jerusalem
Dangerous Dreams
Science and Religion
On Prayer
Discussion Guide
Notes