Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People (The Practices of Faith Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506454739 ISBN 13: 9781506454733

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2019

Synopsis

Twelve time-honored Christian practices that will help us, and the world, to flourish

Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become. How can we live faithfully and with integrity in a world where the pace of existence is so fast and life's patterns are changing all around us? Can we conduct our daily lives in ways that help us not just get by but flourish--as individuals, as communities, and as a society in concert with creation and in communion with God?

These questions are on the hearts and minds of many seekers who are exploring spirituality today. They are also at the heart of Practicing Our Faith.

Practices are those shared activities that address fundamental needs of humankind and creation and that, woven together, form a way of life. The twelve practices explored in this book are practices that human beings simply cannot do without, particularly at this time in history.

This book will stimulate your imagination. It will encourage you to reflect. It initiates a conversation that will spread into many contexts, each of which presents unique opportunities for noticing, discussing, and living the practices of faith.

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy C. Bass is a practical theologian and church historian. During twenty-five years as director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith, a Lilly Endowment project supporting the renewal of Christian theology and life, she wrote, edited, or coedited more than a dozen books. She has spoken widely on vocation and spirituality.

Review:

"Practicing Our Faith is more than a book; it outlines a movement -- God’s movement -- that is both as old as Abraham and as new as today's emerging Christianity. Here is a way to live the abundant life that is good news for our neighbors, sweet rest for our souls, and hope for a church too long fragmented by division." --Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, new monastic, author, and speaker

"Practicing Our Faith strikes me as a book as wise as grandparents -- a good guide to living within our families and communities with integrity and generosity." --Kathleen Norris, author of The Cloister Walk and Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

"Practicing Our Faith is a book written by a remarkable community of people -- remarkable not only because it includes some of the most insightful Christian voices of our time but because its members prayed and talked and worked together to create this volume, modeling the way the church is meant to do its work." --Parker Palmer, author of A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1506454739
• ISBN 13: 9781506454733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Dorothy C. Bass