Synopses & Reviews
What begins in your heart can make all the difference in the world.
Developing a friendship with God may be the starting point for the spiritual journey, but how can that important internal relationship move us to make an impact on—and even transform—the world around us?
In Changed Heart, Changed World, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, delves into such topics as how friendship with God impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world. Throughout the book, Fr. Barry provides many practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world.
Above all else, Changed Heart, Changed World reminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now—a dream that can only be realized by our becoming “other Christs in this world.”
What begins in your heart can make all the difference in the world.
Developing a friendship with God may be the starting point for the spiritual journey, but how can that important internal relationship move us to make an impact on—and even transform—the world around us?
In Changed Heart, Changed World, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, delves into such topics as how friendship with God impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world. Throughout the book, Fr. Barry provides many practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world.
Above all else, Changed Heart, Changed World reminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now—a dream that can only be realized by our becoming “other Christs in this world.”
Synopsis
Changed Heart, Changed World helps explode the myth that our inner life is somehow separate from our outer life. Employing a highly personable tone, Fr. Barry provides practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world. Fr. Barry begins the book by reviewing how an individual develops a friendship with God; from there, he delves into such topics as how that friendship impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world.
Synopsis
Developing a friendship with God may be the starting point for the spiritual journey, but how can that important internal relationship move us to make an impact on--and even transform--the world around us? In Changed Heart, Changed World, renowned spiritual director William A. Barry, SJ, delves into such topics as how friendship with God impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world. Throughout the book, Fr. Barry provides many practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world. Above all else, Changed Heart, Changed World reminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now--a dream that can only be realized by our becoming "other Christs in this world."
Synopsis
Discover how a close relationship with God leads us to be difference-makers in the world.
In his book A Friendship Like No Other, William A. Barry, SJ, explored the idea that God actually wants to relate to us as a close friend—a radical concept for many Christians. In his follow-up book, Here’s My Heart, Here’s My Hand, Fr. Barry showed readers how to foster their friendship with God and remain anchored in it. Now, in Changed Heart, Changed World, Fr. Barry helps us make the important connection between having a personal friendship with God and making an impact on the world around us.
Changed Heart, Changed World helps explode the myth that our inner life is somehow separate from our outer life. Employing a highly personable tone, Fr. Barry provides practical ways to integrate the inner life, where we experience a relationship with God, with the outer life, where we live in relationship with our world. Fr. Barry begins the book by reviewing how an individual develops a friendship with God; from there, he delves into such topics as how that friendship impacts our role in society, how to see forgiveness as a way of life, and how compassion can make its mark on the world.
Above all else, Changed Heart, Changed World reminds us that God has a dream for his creation here and now—a dream that can only be realized by our becoming “other Christs in this world,” bearing God’s image in all that we do.
About the Author
William A. Barry, SJ, is a veteran spiritual director who is currently serving as tertian director for the New England Province of the Society of Jesus. His many works include A Friendship Like No Other, Here’s My Heart, Here’s My Hand, and God’s Passionate Desire.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface ix
1 Friendship with God in the Real World 1
2 God, in Whose Image We Are Made 7
3 Our Role in the World as It Is 17
4 Inner Life, Public Life 33
5 Wherever Life Places Us 45
6 Freedom from Fear 55
7 Forgiveness as a Way of Life 73
8 Reconciliation on a Larger Scale 97
9 Compassion of Heart, Global in Scope 117
10 Life with Others 135
11 Can We Say, “We Have Enough”? 159
12 Always, Gratitude 165
Coda 171
Appendix 1: Suggestions for Spiritual Growth 173
Appendix 2: “Rummaging for God: Praying Backward through Your Day” 177
Notes 187
Annotated Bibliography 193