joining Lives Paperback -

We Live In Precarious Times And Are Seeking To Make ALasting Impact Through Immediate SolutionsBut In Our Haste We Often Make Decisions To Fix Problems And Persons, Forgetting That We Are Not Called To Fix But Rather To ReconcileIn This Wideranging Collection Of Essays We Explore What It Might Look Like If We Were To Live In The World First With The Purpose Of Reconciling And Then Allow That Vision To Guide Our ActionsEach Essay Engages With Reconciliation In Different Contexts, Providing Meaningful And Potentially Transformative Insights That Will Lead The Reader To More Faithful Lives And ActivitiesThe Essays Are Not Filled With Theoretical Reflections But With Hardearned Wisdom From Proven Thinkers, Practitioners, And InnovatorsIn Joining Lives, ACanon Of Imaginative Theological Practitioners Bring To Life Timetested Ideas Through Embodied Sacrificethats What Gives This Handy Book Such Credibility, That The Words Were First Written Though The Daring Love Of Those Who Then Were Able To Pen ThemIts Rare To Find Such ACommitted Group Of Sheroes And Heroes Fighting For The New WeJoining Lives Is Their Testament Of Reconciliation, And An Invitation For The Rest Of Us To Join Inchristopher LHeuertz, Founding Partner Of Gravity, ACenter For Contemplative Activism, Author Of Unexpected Gifts '