03831cam a2200469 4500 1699239031 ER5 20241105120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250349699 1250349699 1cfa141b-bb0e-4aa5-91ad-bdf0fbdf0029 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10146334 OverDrive (Product ID) ER5 Griswold, Eliza, 1973- Circle of Hope [Libby Audiobook] : A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church. Macmillan Audio, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 329MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 329MB. evangelical christianity. left-wing christianity. new yorker journalist. award-winning author. narrative nonfiction. Pulitzer Prize. the new yorker. ex-evangelical. Philadelphia. polarization. Christianity. Journalism. Church. Faith. HTML:<p><b>A Pulitzer Prize winner's intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.</b><br /> <b>"Jennifer Pickens adopts an even-keeled reportorial cadence and timbre well suited to Griswold's immersion journalism, which recounts the rise and fall of <i>Circle of Hope</i>."</b><b>—<i>AudioFile</i></b><br /> <i>"The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church."<br /></i><br /> Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus.<br /> This is the story of one such "radical outpost of Jesus followers" dedicated to service, the Sermon on the Mount, and working toward justice for all in this life, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism, Philadelphia's Circle of Hope grew for forty years, planted four congregations, and then found itself in crisis.<br /> The story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make "the least of these" welcome?<br /> Building on years of deep reporting, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate, immersive, tenderhearted portrait of a community, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts, an increasingly politicized religious landscape, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism, <i>Circle of Hope</i> tells a propulsive, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring, searing examination of what it means for us to love, to grow, and to disagree.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</b></p>. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-11-05 20:00:02. Pickens, Jennifer. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1cfa141b-bb0e-4aa5-91ad-bdf0fbdf0029&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1cfa141b-bb0e-4aa5-91ad-bdf0fbdf0029&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)