Wondering Between Two Worlds: Awakening to the Living God - Softcover

Conlon, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692083642 ISBN 13: 9780692083642

Publisher: Planetary People Press, 2018

Synopsis

For more than 50 years, Jim Conlon has been a pilgrim wandering between a world broken by poverty, neglect, and degradation, and a world lifted on the wings of redeeming love. In this new volume, he takes us inside the depths of his own heart, revealing precious gifts of creativity, hope, mercy, and endless gratitude for the spectacular adventure of being alive.

About this title

About the Author

Jim Conlon was born in Canada in 1936. He received a degree in chemsity from Assumption University of Windsor, and later in theology from the University of Western Ontario, and a PhD from Union Institute and Graduate School. Deeply moved by the impact of the second Vatican Council, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War, Jim moved from pastoral work to the streets. Today he is one of the leading teachers of the new narrative of the cosmos. Visit him online at www.jimconlon.net and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/becomingplanetarypeople.

Review

Seldom do you find so much beauty, hope, and wisdom all in one place! This is the wonderful fruit of Jim Conlon's full life of growing and changing--and passing on that growing and changing to so many of the rest of us. We--and creation itself--are all the grateful beneficiaries.

--Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Jim Conlon's closely interwoven poetry and prose awaken the reader to the beauty and wonders of Earth and cosmos, to the miracle of life and of being alive.

--Ursula King, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, England

Father Jim Conlon is a man dedicated to all people of the world, all creatures and all things. This book of short essays and poems is inspirational. I feel uplifted by it. It has straightened out my vision here and there, something I need every day.

--Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Ageless Soul

A timely and inspiring resource from one who has devoted his entire life to the vision and inspiration of the new story.

--Diarmuid O'Murchu, author of Incarnation: A New Evolutionary Threshold

Jim Conlon ... shines forth with a vision of the great beauty and mystery in nature.

--Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

Jim Conlon's spirituality ... carries a reader into a glorious time, what Thomas Berry called the ecozoic era.

--Brian Swimme, co-author with Thomas Berry of The Universe Story

Edition details

• Publisher: Planetary People Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0692083642
• ISBN 13: 9780692083642
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266