HEARTBEAT OF GOD: Finding The Sacred In The Middle Of Everything

zWe are all connected,z writes Katharine Jefferts Schori,zas human beings with each other, as one nation withall other nations, and as the human species with thewhole of our environment. At a population of 7 billionwe can no longer, if we ever could, afford to ignorethose interconnections. The welfare of the least amongus and around us will eventually be our own.zIn this book, Jefferts Schori explores those connectionsas she looks at the intersections of faith with themajor issues of our dayzpoverty, climate change, theeconomy, health care. How does faith speak to thoseissues, and what is the faith response? How canbelievers from an astonishing variety of faith traditionsfind common ground while honoring thedivine, serving one another and creating a deepercommunity? The Heartbeat of God will be an upcloselook at the zsecularz issues of our day that haveprofoundly religious roots.Adapted from Bishop Jefferts Schorizs manyspeeches and sermons delivered around the country andaround the world, the chapters in The Heartbeat ofGod will look at the many ways our faith and our livesare intimately woven together. The author of coursewrites from the perspective of her Christian tradition,but also reaches out with sensitivity and grace to aninterfaith audience.