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The Wisdom Of Stability: Rooting Faith In A Mobile Culture (2010)

by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1557256233 (ISBN13: 9781557256232)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Paraclete Press

review 1: A book about the spiritual practice of stability, blending insights from the New Monastic movement with the ancient wisdom of Christianity's 1700 years of monastic tradition. A calm and beautiful book, it feels like it could have been written by Annie Dillard or Barbara Brown Taylor. Highly recommended for those of us trying to live out God's calling on our lives in the midst of a mobile and unstable world.
review 2: We live in a culture that is on the move. The American dream is all about bigger and better. Many Christians have bought into this, seeking to go go go and do do do. We think bigger is automatically better and moving somewhere else will improve our lives and ministry. This book challenges that mindset. Listening to the wisdom of the fathers an... mored mothers of the church, people who often lived for years in the desert (people with names like Teresa of Avila, Benedict of Nursia, John Cassian), Wilson-Hartgrove reminds us there is great wisdom in being stable. He weaves in stories from his own work in the city, living among people and serving them. This book is refreshing simply for its call to slow down and serve Jesus wherever you are at. less

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