Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide

Williams, Cecil; Mirikitani, Janice

ISBN 10: 0062105043 / ISBN 13: 9780062105042

Published by U.S.A.: HarperOne, 2013

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SIGNED and personalized by both authors on a publisher's bookplate on the front free endpaper--visible in photo. Jacket has a pressure dent that left a matching one on the front board--visible in photo. Interior content is fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide
• Publisher: U.S.A.: HarperOne
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062105043
• ISBN 13: 9780062105042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In Beyond the Possible, Reverend Cecil Williams, one of the most well-known and provocative ministers in the United States, reflects on his fifty years creating radical social change as the head of San Francisco's Memorial Glide Church.

Williams' innovations, such as HIV testing during services, have drawn protest from more conservative factions within the Methodist Church, but his work in the community has drawn praise from the likes of Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffett.

Written with Glide Church founding pastor Janice Mirikitani, and with a foreword by Dave Eggers, Beyond the Possible is a book of wisdom, providing lessons that Reverend Williams has learned so that readers can learn to embrace their true selves, accept all those around them, and fully live day to day through social change as worship.

About the Authors

For more than fifty years, the Reverend Cecil Williams has been recognized as a national leader on the forefront of change in the struggle for civil and human rights. Janice Mirikitani is the founding president of the Glide Foundation and was San Francisco's second poet laureate. Cecil and Janice have been married for thirty-one years.

Dave Eggers, a former professional stundman, is the editor of McSweeney's and the author of the New York Times bestseller A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.