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Book

Good and beautiful and kind : becoming whole in a fractured world

Call Number

  • 248.4 V758.1 (WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Colorado Springs : WaterBrook, [2022]

Physical Description

xxiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience--from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award"--

Contents

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part one: The forces behind the fractures. A failure to love; Sin, the fracturing of reality
  • The unseen enemy; Living against the powers
  • Hindering wounds, holy wounds; Trauma and the hope of the world
  • Part two: Walking a better way. The problem of prayer; A contemplative path in a thoughtless age
  • Beyond the walls of the false self; Humility and lowering our defenses
  • Resisting reactivity; Living as a calm presence in an anxious culture
  • Part three: Embodying wholeness. A bridge, not a barrier; Healthy conflict in pursuit of wholeness
  • The gift of forgiveness; Honestly breaking the cycle of offense
  • Love in public; Justice in the way of Jesus
  • Afterword.

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