Book Description

Many Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. Some go on retreats but are often disappointed to find that the integrated life they experienced in a place apart is difficult to recreate in their day-to-day world. To all these seekers, Practicing Our Faith offers to help that is rooted in Christian faith and tradition. Refusing to leave our beliefs in the realm of theory, this book explores twelve central Christian practices - shared activities that address fundamental human needs and that, woven together, form a way of life. The contributors explore in depth each practice - such as keeping Sabbath, honoring the body, and forgiving one another - by placing it in its historical and biblical context, reexamining its relevance to our times, and showing how it gives depth and meaning to daily life. The book's thirteen contributor's, who come from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds, draw on their rich shared experience as believers, theologians, ethicists, and educators. Informed by the wisdom of the Christian tradition yet alert to the needs of our time, they illustrate how we can conduct our daily lives in concert with all creation and in communion with God.