Writing Home, With Love: Politics for Neighbors and Naysayers
- ISBN-10
- 1498282636
- ISBN-13
- 9781498282635
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-12-09
- Publisher
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Author
- Amy Laura Hall
Description
For the last two years, acclaimed theologian Amy Laura Hall has written a lively, wide-ranging, opinionated column for her local newspaper. In her column, Hall has sought--without flatly rejecting globalism--to think and act locally. She has also responded to what she sees as a disturbing Christian turn toward asceticism and away from abundance. Drawing from her scholarship, but also from conversations at coffee shops and around the dinner table, Hall's "missives of love" engage topics such as school dress codes, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, LGBTQ dignity, and bullies in the workplace. They draw richly and variously on pop songs, dead saints, young adult literature, and many stories about actual neighbors and family members. Often offbeat and always riveting, they ask how the world around us works and can work much better for the sake of daily truth and flourishing.
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