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| Resource: | Books (P40683.0000) When your life is on fire : What would you save? |
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| Author: | Kolbell, Erik. | |
| Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press, 2014 | |
| Length: | 248 pages | |
| Heading: | 035 — Christian Life | |
| Subjects: | Christianity-Inspirational; Life; Values | |
| Location: | BD435 .K65 2014 | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780664236892 | |
| Description: | FROM THE PUBLISHER: "In When Your Life Is On Fire Erik Kolbell listens, provokes, and most of all, shares with us the enduring lessons and insights of life and faith as realized by a diverse population of thoughtful people. It's a town hall of the soul." Tom Brokaw If your life was on fire, what would be the one thing you save? Psychotherapist and pastor Erik Kolbell asks that question of 13 remarkable and unique individuals. The answers, provided by celebrities such as Jane Pauley and Alan Alda, artists such as Regina Carter and Tao Porchon Lynch, and ordinary people put into extraordinary situations like Don Lange and Brenda Berkman, will help all of us consider what it is that we value most in life. His goal, Kolbell says, is not to examine the worth of each of these things. "What matters is that for all of the sham and artifice that can make cynics of us all, there are things, solid things, that compel us onward." DESCRIPTION: "What would you save if your house was on fire and it contained not only everything you own but everything you are? This is the question writer, psychotherapist, and minister Kolbell (What Jesus Meant) poses to 13 diverse individuals, from such well-known individuals as actor Alan Alda to wounded Afghanistan veteran Don Lange, in this insightful book. Structured around his interviews, each chapter highlights unique and thoughtful responses that delve deeply into the participants' personal lives, work, and faith. Woven together with Kolbell's rich prose and theological reflections, their responses transcend personal narrative and reveal something about how we 'derive a sense of the meaning of our existence and the purpose that this meaning invites for our lives.' The book is designed to provoke reflection and conversation and includes questions for discussion with each chapter. While Kolbell locates his theology within Protestant Christianity, those he interviews come from a variety of religious backgrounds. Readers who will most appreciate this book are those who, like Kolbell, use a theological lens to find sacred that which provides meaning in life." Publishers Weekly Copyright Pwxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. |
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