Bringing God Home : A Traveler's Guide - Hardcover

Church, Forrest

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312282184 ISBN 13: 9780312282189

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2002

Synopsis

In times of crisis, we seek the consolation faith alone can provide. As Forrest Church reminds us in Bringing God Home, the Chinese ideogram for the word "crisis" means both "danger" and "opportunity." The danger lies in surrendering to fear, love's true opposite; the opportunity is that crisis can bring us closer to God, and God closer to us.

Using his own spiritual quest as a starting point, Church has written a book that will comfort and inspire readers of all backgrounds and creeds. "Religion," he writes, "sponsors more unholy violence than any other force on earth." But faith-when it leads to humility at the wonder of creation, and helps us see the one Light that shines through many windows-both opens our hearts and bind our wounds.

Drawing insight and courage from poets, philosophers, and prophets from across the ages, and from ordinary people from across the street, Forrest Church challenges us to set out on the journey of our lives, and then guides our steps back home.

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From the Back Cover:

Praise for Bringing God Home

“A profound book. As we set out to bring God home, we are the ones who return
home.” --Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Forrest Church is a perfect guide through the oceans of belief.” --Diane Ackerman

“Bringing God Home is a book whose arrival could not have come at a more
important moment in human history.” --Faye Wattleton

“Intensely human and mystically profound. A spiritually hungry world will
love this book.” --Bishop John Shelby Spong

Using his own spiritual quest as a starting point, Forrest Church has written a book that will comfort and inspire readers of all backgrounds and creeds. Drawing insight and courage from poets, philosophers, and prophets from across the ages, and from ordinary people from across the street, he challenges us to set out on the journey of our lives, and then guides our steps back home.

About the Author:

Forrest Church is Senior Minister at All Souls Church (Unitarian) in Manhattan, where he has served for twenty-four years. He is the author of many books, most recently Lifecraft: The Art of Meaning in the Everyday. He edited Restoring Faith: America's Religious Leaders Answer Terror with Hope, a collection of sermons written in response to the September 11 attack on America. A father of four children, he lives with his family in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312282184
• ISBN 13: 9780312282189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272