Paperback | 240 pages
Publisher:
The Crossroad Publishing Company
(October 1, 2007)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
0824524616
ISBN-13:
978-0824524616
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"Where do you find hope? In this exquisitely written volume, 35 of America’s most eloquent Catholic writers reflect on where they find and sustain sources of hope in their own lives. These reflections draw on a wide range of sources—from reason, love, anger, prayer, and humor, to inspirational figures such as Dorothy Day, Flannery O’Connor, and Pope John Paul II, in illuminating the battle against despair that is always at work in religious faith. "
(Amazon.com)
"Take Heart will help readers reflect on what hope means to them and how to then live that hope. It is time well spent in light of the current state of our world."
(Patrice Fagnant, author of Letters to Mary from a Young Mother)
"At the height of the sexual abuse scandal several years ago, Boston College editor Ben Birnbaum asked Catholic writers to “reflect on the nature of hope and its sources and uses in our time.” Only one writer said he had no hope. The answers of the other 35 are published in Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in Our Time (Crossroad). Some of the writers tackle hope in theological and philosophical terms. But almost all of the writers, being writers, associate their hope with things: “green chile, a blooded crossroad, a Monday evening meditation group, a subway ride, charm braclets, ‘Danny Boy,’ a neglected church building, and AIDS clinic, and Spanish anarchists,” writes Birnbaum. In other words, hope is everywhere."
(Jim Manney, editor at Loyola Press, former editor Our Sunday Visitor, and blogger for People of the Book) |
