Synopses & Reviews
We are all connected, writes Katharine Jefferts Schori,
as human beings with each other, as one nation with
all other nations, and as the human species with the
whole of our environment. At a population of 7 billion
we can no longer, if we ever could, afford to ignore
those interconnections. The welfare of the least among
us and around us will eventually be our own.
In this book, Jefferts Schori explores those connections
as she looks at the intersections of faith with the
major issues of our daypoverty, climate change, the
economy, health care. How does faith speak to those
issues, and what is the faith response? How can
believers from an astonishing variety of faith traditions
find common ground while honoring the
divine, serving one another and creating a deeper
community? The Heartbeat of God will be an upclose
look at the secular issues of our day that have
profoundly religious roots.
Adapted from Bishop Jefferts Schori's many
speeches and sermons delivered around the country and
around the world, the chapters in The Heartbeat of
God will look at the many ways our faith and our lives
are intimately woven together. The author of course
writes from the perspective of her Christian tradition,
but also reaches out with sensitivity and grace to an
interfaith audience.