How to Begin When Your World Is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything
How to Begin When Your World Is Ending
by Molly Phinney Baskette
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1506481604 | 223 pages | True EPUB | 6.16 MB
by Molly Phinney Baskette
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1506481604 | 223 pages | True EPUB | 6.16 MB
Moving, witty, and probing, Molly Baskette's practical and spiritual perspective will appeal to readers of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Kate Bowler's Everything Happens for a Reason.
As a progressive parish minister, Molly Baskette has been a companion during the most vulnerable, traumatized, and unsettled periods of many people's lives. She has also had a front row seat to remarkable human transformation, as many of the ruptures her people lived through turned out to be the way that God got in. But when she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at age thirty-nine, with two small children, her theology of and relationship to God was tested more profoundly than ever.
Instead of becoming despondent, though, she engaged with her faith more deeply—seizing the opportunity to test the seaworthiness of the faith she had been practicing and preaching. In How to Begin When Your World is Ending, Baskette shares the questions that confronted her…