Inspired Lives: Exploring the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Lives of Extraordinary People - Softcover

Laufer, Joanna; Lewis, Kenneth S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893361330 ISBN 13: 9781893361331

Publisher: SkyLight Paths, 2001

Synopsis

How faith transforms the lives and work of creative and innovative people we admire―an inspiration to discover the spirit of God in our own life and work.

Faith is the secret foundation of many lives―including, as this book reveals, the lives of many people we admire and look to for inspiration. In this moving book, soul-searching conversations unearth the importance of spirituality and personal faith for more than forty artists and innovators who have made a real difference in our world through their work. Seeing the ways that these lives have been strongly―even miraculously―affected by faith will serve as an inspiration to discover the spirit of God at work in your own life and work.

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Review:

Inspired: The Breath of God, by Joanna Laufer and Kenneth S. Lewis, reads like a group-therapy session for geniuses. It's a collection of ruminations by people like Desmond Tutu, Wynton Marsalis, Alan Dershowitz, John Polkinghorne, Ang Lee, and Kathleen Norris, on the presence of the Holy Spirit in their life and work. Like a group-therapy discussion, the book's organization is scattershot and sloppy, but most of its sentences are sharp. Don't read this one straight through: keep it by your bedside for a month, and read the pages at random. You'll learn a huge amount about how God is working in the lives of some people whose lives seem to be working extremely well. --Michael Joseph Gross

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ed: The Breath of God is a journey of discovery into the incredible range and drama of life's most powerful spiritual experience as seen through the eyes of personalities from literature, music, sports, medicine, law, film, theology, psychiatry, business, and education. The contributors, with names like Tobias Wolff, Andre Dubus, Doc Watson, J. Carter Brown, Thomas Moore, Steve Reich, and Paulo Coehlo, are a veritable who's who of notable people. Despite their widely varying backgrounds and professions, these luminaries have a common thread running through their lives: They have all been motivated, encouraged, consoled, and healed by the spirit of God.

Readers will sense inspiration's undeniable presence as Leontyne Price describes feeling as though she is "in the hands of God" when she is singing; they will sense its power to heal as author Andre Dubus relates how, following a tragic car accident that left him in a wheelchair, he moved from despair to thankfulness; and t

About this edition

• Publisher: SkyLight Paths
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1893361330
• ISBN 13: 9781893361331
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256