Bringing God Home : A Traveler's Guide

Forrest Church

ISBN 10: 0312282184 / ISBN 13: 9780312282189

Published by St. Martin's Press, 2002

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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. AUTHORBIO: 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. REVIEW: '.a formidable intelligence and a courageous honesty to guide us on the most important quest any of us will undertake.' (Rabbi Harold S. Kushner) REVIEW: 'A profound book. As we set out to bring God home, we are the ones who return home.' (Archbishop Desmond Tutu) REVIEW: 'Forrest Church is a perfect guide through the oceans of belief.' (Diane Ackerman) REVIEW: 'Bringing God Home is a book whose arrival could not have come at a more important moment in human history.' (Faye Wattleton) REVIEW: 'Intensely human and mystically profound.A spiritually hungry world will love this book.' (Bishop John Shelby Spong) REVIEW: 'The best book yet by one of the outstanding ministers of our era.' (Dan Wakefield) REVIEW: 'Forrest Church tells a compelling tale that is somehow ours as well as his.' (Harvey Cox) REVIEW: 'Pleasurable, profound and prophetic.Filled with insightful comments on the mysteries of human existence.' (Father Robert F. Drinan).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bringing God Home : A Traveler's Guide
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312282184
• ISBN 13: 9780312282189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.