A profound reminder of our role in God's vision for a restored and reconciled world.

-The work before us this mission of God's is immense, cosmic, even. The world is hungry, thirsty, homeless, sick, lonely, imprisoned and enslaved because some parts are. The creation is groaning in travail because of our abuse of the garden in which we have been set. The body is ailing. Participating in God s mission is about seeing and responding to that collective suffering, and beginning to understand our interconnection with the other parts of the body.- from the Introduction

In the...