Binding: Hardcover
Description: A healing antidote to our divisive culture full of evocative storytelling spiritual wisdom and nine essential daily practices by the first female Black senior minister at the historic Collegiate Churches of New York Fierce Love teaches us that with spiritual faith we can transcend the darkest moments and come through stronger. Gabrielle Bernstein #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back We are living in a world divided. Race and ethnicity caste and color gender and sexuality class and education religion and political party have all become demographic labels that reduce our differences to simplistic categories in which we are vehemently against them. But Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis's own experience of being the first female and first Black minister in her church's history of being in an interracial marriage and of making peace with childhood abuse illustrates that our human capacity for empathy and forgiveness is the key to reversing these ugly trends. Inspired by the tenets of ubuntu the Zulu philosophy that we are each impacted by the circumstances that impact those around us and that the world won t get better until we all get better Fierce Love lays out the nine daily practices for breaking through tribalism and engineering the change we seek. From downsizing our emotional baggage to speaking truth to power to fueling our activism with joy it demonstrates the power of small morally courageous steps to heal our own lives our posse and our larger communities. Sharing stories that trace her personal reckoning with racism as well as the arc of her journey to an inclusive and service - driven faith Dr. Lewis shows that kindness compassion and inclusive thinking are muscles that can be exercised and strengthened. With the goal of mending our inextricable human connection Fierce Love is a manifesto for all generations: a bighearted healing antidote to our rancorous culture.
Title: Fierce Love
Author(s): Lewis Dr. Jacqui
Publisher: Harmony/ Rodale
Barcode: 9780593233863
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/9/2021